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TODAY WE'RE BREAKING GROUND ON AN ALL-INCLUSIVE, UH, PLAYGROUND CALLED THE BUCKTOWN MARINA PLAYGROUND.
IT'S GONNA BE SHRIMP BOAT THEMED WITH, UH, BIG OUTRIGGERS ON THE BACK WITH NETS FOR THE KIDS TO CLIMB ON.
NOT ONLY IS IT GONNA BE GREAT FOR THE KIDS TO PLAY ON, IT'S EDUCATIONAL AND IT KIND OF SHOWS THE HISTORY OF BUCKTOWN AND, AND WHAT THIS AREA USED TO BE BACK IN THE DAY AND, AND STILL SOMEWHAT, IS THIS IS ALL GONNA BE BUILT ON A HILL.
UH, THERE'S GONNA BE A SAFETY SURFACE UNDERNEATH AND, UH, WHERE, WHERE THE OUTRIGGERS GO, BUT IT'S GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE BELIEVE THE HIGHEST POINT IN JEFFERSON PARISH.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS IN MY HEART THAT I WAS LIKE, I KNOW HOW GOOD THIS IS FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND I CANNOT BE MORE APPRECIATIVE THAT HANS WILBERG HAS, HAS CAPTURED THE SAME KIND OF PASSION FOR THIS PROJECT AND CONTINUED IT.
IT MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT HE HAS SEVEN DAUGHTERS AND A MILLION GRANDCHILDREN AND
LOOK, I, I REMEMBER RIDING MY BIKE ALONG THIS BIKE PATH YEARS AND YEARS AGO, AND IT'S COME SUCH A LONG WAY SINCE THEN.
BUT TO SEE THE DIFFERENT CHAPTERS AND THE DIFFERENT IDENTITIES THIS HAS TAKEN OVER THE YEARS FROM WHAT IT WAS TO WHAT IT IS AND TO WHAT IT'S GONNA BECOME, IS REALLY AWESOME TO SEE.
AND THE MORE AMENITIES WE CAN ADD LIKE THIS TO JEFFERSON PARISH, THE BETTER OFF WE ALL ARE.
YOU HAVE SEEN A WHOLE LOT POP UP OUT HERE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
WE'VE SEEN THE, UH, THE BIRD'S NEST COME UP.
WE'VE SEEN, UM, THE KAYAK LAUNCH, UH, THE BOARDWALK.
I MEAN, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT GOING OUT HERE.
AND THIS IS A, THIS IS A BIG, A, A BIG COMPLIMENT TO IT ALL.
AND, AND LOOK, THERE'S MORE TO COME.