Tenderloin Rec Center Children’s Play Area Improvement project is located at 570 Ellis Street, San Francisco between Hyde Street and Leavensworth Street. The project will renovate the Children's Play Area (CPA) by creating a nature-focused play and exploration area, enhancing outdoor recreation, adding seating, expanding planting areas, and implementing ADA improvements. The scope includes demolition of the current play equipment and rubber tile surfacing, demolition of hardscape, relocating the portable soccer pitch to the front of the property, and shifting the play area to the rear corner. The new play area will feature updated equipment, resilient surfacing, and log edging for nature exploration. Some of the play equipment will be pre-purchased by a donor and installed by the contractor. The soccer pitch will undergo minor improvements to comply with ADA standards, and synthetic turf will replace the existing plastic tile surface. Tiered concrete seating between the play area and soccer pitch will serve as an outdoor classroom. A new seating area with benches will be added near the entrance, and picnic tables will be placed next to the gymnasium. The project also includes new planting, irrigation, and subsurface drainage. The remaining asphalt surfacing will receive a new acrylic topcoat with sports court striping. ADA improvements will involve reconfiguring the steel handrails at the wheelchair ramp, replacing the drinking fountain, and upgrading the pavement along the path of travel.
