FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                               February 9, 2001

CARY, NC – Keeping their promise of more parks for the people, Cary leaders will dedicate the Town’s newest park in a ceremony on Monday. Citizens are invited to take part in the dedication of the 15.45-acre Green Hope Elementary School Park, located at 2750 Louis Stevens Drive, to be dedicated at 3:30 PM on February 12^th. This is the fifth park opened by the Town of Cary since July of 1999, bringing the total number of developed park property acres in Cary to 488.

A partnership between Wake County Public Schools and the Town of Cary, and built at a cost of $1.7million, GHESP will be shared by elementary school students and the community and features three soccer fields, a gymnasium, a playground, an outdoor basketball court, four sand volleyball courts and a lighted picnic shelter that seats about 100 people. Funded mostly by the Town through its general fund and bonds, the land for the park was donated by Wake County Public Schools which also paid for part of the cost of the gymnasium. Dream Camps also contributed $100,000 toward the project.

GHESP is adjacent to the Cary Tennis Center, which will be entering its second phase of construction later this summer, adding 22 courts to the eight courts currently available to the public. The development of these facilities is part of the Town of Cary Parks, Greenways and Bikeways Master Plan which addresses long-term facility needs for the community.