April 29, 2025
by Joel Umanzor
At the edge of Richmond’s Iron Triangle neighborhood, a highly anticipated community park project more than 10 years in the making is close to becoming a reality along the Richmond Greenway Trail.
Pogo Park — a nonprofit community development organization that converts blighted city parks into safe green children’s play spaces — has been working since 2013 with the city, Richmond LAND and neighborhood residents to transform the two-block Harbour-8 Park into a place that has everything from a fun zone with a 25-foot, three-story transparent climbing structure to a tot lot, a commercial kitchen and a 100-foot zip line mounted on a rubber surface hand-crafted by team members to look like a volcano.
While they’re still raising the last $6 million of what is a $28 million project, the first phase is expected to be open by July, said Toody Maher, executive director of Pogo Park.
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