New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp will join commissioners and officials
of the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation, and Trees (Parks and
Rec) Tuesday morning for a ribbon-cutting and rededication of Edgewood
Park’s Coogan Pavilion. Extensive renovation of the facility was
required after a two-alarm fire there in 2012.
Coogan Pavilion was dedicated in 1961 and is named for James E. Coogan,
a longstanding New Haven parks director in the 1950s. Before the fire
the facility had been used primarily as a base camp for Parks and Rec
summer programs and for storage. Officials say the renovated facility
will be much more versatile and serve as a year ‘round drop-in
recreation center. Among other features, it will have LED lighting and a
meeting room for community groups; plans are for the new building to be
open six days a week.
Tomorrow’s ribbon cutting is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. at the Coogan
Pavilion, just off Whalley Avenue at the northernmost end of Edgewood
Park. Members of the press corps are invited to cover this event.
● Who: New Haven Mayor Toni N. Harp and officials of the city’s
Department of Parks, Recreation, and Trees.
● What: Ribbon-cutting and rededication of Edgewood Park’s
Coogan Pavilion, after an extensive renovation of the facility made
necessary by a two-alarm fire there in the fall of 2012.
● When: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 9:30 a.m.
● Where: Coogan Pavilion in Edgewood Park, just off Whalley Avenue
at the northernmost end of Edgewood Park in New Haven.
● Why: To return to community use a facility that was badly
damaged during a 2012 fire.
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