Lindsay Olive bowl park multi-million dollar renovation underway

LINDSAY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Generations of radical person gathered astatine the Lindsay Olive Bowl to play sports.

Baseball, softball, shot and shot conscionable to sanction a few.

Marshall Chairez grew up successful Lindsay and took america down a nostalgic representation lane.

"A batch of large memories.. A batch of memories." Marshall continues, "Tons of stories, tons of history. I'm definite I'm not the lone 1 that shared this spot of ungraded with their siblings and their dads."

But the park, is mostly ungraded present arsenic demolition begins.

"I'm excited to spot what this is gonna look similar erstwhile it's done," says Marshall.

It's portion of Lindsay's $10.5M renovation project, made imaginable by grants and immoderate American Rescue Plan funds.

The program includes improvements successful 3 phases.

First, the ballpark and assemblage hoops court.

Phase 2 is the parking batch and lastly is Kaku Park.

"It's ever a arrogant infinitesimal erstwhile you spot thing arsenic ample arsenic this task instrumentality place. It did instrumentality 4 years," says Armando Da Silva, who is the Recreation Services Director City of Lindsay.

Everything is astir torn down..

But inactive lasting is the Iconic Olive shaped scoreboard, "That's ever adjacent and beloved to us," says Marshall.

It can't archer the people anymore.. But it tells galore stories...dating backmost to the 19-70s..

"The precocious schoolhouse really played their shot games galore moons ago," recalls Marshall.

The demolition is bittersweet for Marshall..

"Change is inevitable and thing lasts everlastingly truthful this parkland was successful dire request of renovations and I'm grateful and thankful for the radical that made this possible," Marshall expresses.

He, similar many, are looking guardant to the stories yet to beryllium written by the generations to come.

Renovations to the Lindsay Olive Bowl, oregon Phase 1, should beryllium implicit by Fall of 2025.

When that happens everyone volition beryllium invited to travel retired present and celebrate.