A $2 million plan to upgrade Hartford’s Colt Park has been approved by the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission.
The funds will be used to improve various baseball and softball fields, among other play areas, with new fencing, paved walkways and new benches at all fields, according to plans.
The park’s Roberto Clemente baseball field will also receive updated field lights, a new scoreboard and bleacher shade structures, plans show. New dugouts, bleachers, scoreboard and irrigation system will also be added to another baseball field at the park.
A new pavilion and walkway, with new landscaping, will also be added to the northern side of the park, plans show.
Renovations will begin sometime in 2020, according to Andrew Long, a management associate for the National Parks Service, which is supporting the improvement project at the city-owned Coltsville National Historical Park.
Federal, state and local grants worth $1.5 million will cover the majority of project expenses, in addition to $500,000 provided by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Planned park upgrades were designed by New Britain landscape architect TO Design LLC.
Colt Park, part of the Coltsville Historic District, was gifted to the city in 1905.
