Building Dreams: 2021 Charlotte Playground Build

On Friday, October 22, nearly 140 volunteers came together to deliver the gift of a brand new playground at Sterling Elementary School as part of the 17th Charlotte Playground Build.

 

A safe, fun school playground can cost over $80,000. Which is why United Way of Central Carolinas united volunteers from 13 different sponsoring companies to help build a dream playground for over 700 students at Sterling, located just west of South Blvd. in Pineville.

 

In addition to installing the new playground equipment, volunteers also:

 

• Put down 100 cubic yards of playground mulch
• Built eight picnic tables and five planter benches
• Created three decorative rock gardens
• Re-painted a jogging track and blacktop games in the bus parking lot
• Cleaned up other areas around campus

 

We are incredibly thankful to our volunteers for all their hard work!

 
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Special shout out to this year’s sponsors:

 

• Atrium Health
• Budd Group
• Charlotte Center City Partners
• Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority
• First Horizon Bank Foundation
• First National Bank
• Foundation For The Carolinas
• Lowe’s
• Messer Construction
• Novant Health
• Pineville Neighbors Place
• Rodgers Builders
• Salesforce

 

 

If you or your team is interested in being part of a future playground build, contact Bob Young at byoung@uwcentralcarolinas.org.