Friday, February 14, 2025

City hosts grand reopening for Portia Hines Park

City of Wilmington’s grand reopening of Portia Mills Hines Park at 400 North 10th Street will take place Tuesday at 10 a.m. (Courtesy City of Wilmington)

WILMINGTON — After years of community feedback and construction, the City of Wilmington’s grand reopening of Portia Mills Hines Park at 400 North 10th Street will take place Tuesday at 10 a.m.

A $754,000 upgrade was recently completed. The park has new restrooms, parking, lighting, a pavilion, and sidewalk connections.

Phase 1 funding, which included construction of the restroom building, more lighting, including on the basketball courts, was paid for from FEMA reimbursements from Hurricane Florence.

The basketball goals also have been painted with new nets installed and a seal of coating was put down on the basketball court.


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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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