{"id":37080,"date":"2025-04-08T09:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=37080"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:30:41","slug":"furman-family-at-the-center-of-new-inclusive-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-family-at-the-center-of-new-inclusive-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman family at the center of new, inclusive playground"},"content":{"rendered":"

A generous gift from a Greenville, South Carolina, family to honor their daughter will provide a lasting contribution to other families who have children with special needs. Paul Foster, a 2002 Furman University history alumnus, and his wife, Reagin Foster, are at the center of a new City of Greenville playground under construction, Brooks’ Park, which was funded by $2.3 million from the city and $1.3 million in private donations, including a gift of $809,000 from the Fosters. Furman Athletics also contributed to the effort.<\/p>\n

Named for the Fosters’ daughter, Brooks, who was born with a rare condition called Pontine Tegmental Cap Dysplasia, the park will cover a 10,640-square-foot space at Cleveland Park downtown. Designed for children ages 6 months to about 13 years old, the majority of the playground will be shaded and will feature accessible equipment and activities that provide a “just-right level of challenge and many opportunities to succeed,” according to the City of Greenville Parks, Recreation and Tourism website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The project broke ground in October 2024 when the Greenville Journal<\/a> reported the story. Sources with the city said the park is expected to open in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Foster ’02 and Reagin Foster realize their dream of building a park where their daughter, Brooks, can play with her siblings and other children with special needs at a playground that is accessible to all. Learn more in Greenville Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,119,42,6],"tags":[3353,146,3352,130],"class_list":["post-37080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-greenville-journal","category-history","category-in-the-news","tag-children-with-special-needs","tag-city-of-greenville","tag-inclusive-parks","tag-philanthropy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37088,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37080\/revisions\/37088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}