Sports

Takoma Park Basketball Legend Dedicates Park

The park includes a basketball court and a skatepark.

Takoma Park native and former NBA All-Star Steve Francis opened the newly renovated Takoma-Piney Branch Park Sunday.

Francis donated $70,000 for improvements to the park including:

  • A refurbished basketball court featuring a color-coated surface and six new basketball goals, enabling half-court play;
  • Two new playgrounds;
  • A new skateboard park,
  • A new picnic pavilion; and
  • “Takoma Trees,”—sculptures at both entrances to the park, created by local artist Judy Sutton Moore, with support from the Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Council

Tell us how you plan to use the park this summer.

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