After overcoming delays, complications and manpower shortages, the community effort to renovate the Brigantine Shark Park playground finally culminates this weekend, when the park officially re-opens on Saturday.

When Shark Park, on 26th Street South in Brigantine, was originally built in 1998, it was one of the last wooden playgrounds built in South Jersey. But over the years, and especially after Hurricane Sandy, Shark Park started to look its age. The park needed major repairs.

After Sandy, a new Shark Park volunteer committee was formed and plans were made to rebuild the park with all composite materials including many new great features.

Fundraisers were held and volunteers were recruited, but the work was slow and the park remained closed. The committee had hoped to re-open the park earlier this spring, but had to get past a variety of obstacles to complete their vision for the new park.

That process should make this weekend's grand re-opening all that much more sweet!

Congratulations to the committee and to the community for stepping up to make the new Brigantine Shark Park a reality!

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