PARK IMPROVEMENTS
Current/2013 - ADA improvements to the pool including adding lifts, hand rails, transfer bars and booster seats. Work is anticipated to be done by May 11.
2012 - The first phase of Kandle Park including irrigation throughout the park, extensive landscaping, walking trails, a new playground, skate dots, mini-sprayground, additional parking, 7,500 sf zero-depth wave pool, four 25 meter lap lanes, spray toys, separate spraypool, and support buildings was completed. The Architect was SHKS Architects; Landscape Architect was SiteWorkshop; and the General Contractor was Wyser Construction Company, Inc. Funding for the first phase came from the 2005 Voter Approved Park Improvement Bond Measure, WA State Dept. of Ecology ($2,257.27) and a Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office Land, Water and Conservation Fund Grant ($100,000).
Project Manager: Curtis Hancock (253) 305-1052
2009 - The Kandle Park & Pool Master Plan was approved by the Board of Park Commissioners on September 28, 2009.

  HISTORY
In 1955, Leona Maude Kandle left the bulk of her estate to the Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma for the establishment of a public playground "for girls and women as well as boys and men". Ms. Kandle directed that the new park be called George B. Kandle Playfield, in honor of her late father.* The terms of the will provided a five-year period for the conversion of these holdings into cash. Read more about the history of Kandle Park.