'Beautiful' new Cosgrove Pool a total remake. When it's opening, new features and more
BROCKTON — The old Cosgrove Pool is gone. The new version, city officials say, is on track to open in June for this summer's swim season.
The person Brockton hired to oversee this and the city's other American Rescue Plan Act projects recently gave a tour of the progress.
"It's going to be beautiful," said Dan Pallotta.
Crews finished clearing away the old pool in early February. It's a total remake of the East Side public pool and long overdue. The facility had been more of less untouched since it opened in 1965, Pallotta said.
When residents come back this summer, they'll find upgrades broadly similar to ones made for the Manning Pool on the West Side. The new-look Cosgrove Pool will have new bathrooms, showers and shade structures. All swimmers will be in one continuous pool that goes from a splash pad through a wading area to a lap area 5-and-a-half feet deep, Parks Superintendent Tim Carpenter said at the project's groundbreaking last fall.
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Gone will be one of the two sets of fences that to more than one set of eyes gave off a "prison" vibe. The pool sits next to the Plouffe School on Crescent Street.
The money for Cosgrove Pool's rebirth comes both from federal pandemic funds and grants secured by Brockton's Washington, D.C. legislative team.
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Cosgrove Pool cost breakdown
The long-awaited renovation of the East Side's Cosgrove pool is a $6,004,533 project:
Contractor: APC Development — $5,035,622
Designer: MM&T — $425,463
Testing — $35,000
Contingencies — $508,448
Source: City of Brockton as of Feb. 5, 2024
Who is the pool named after?
The pool's name honors Lawrence R. Cosgrove. He became the first Brocktonian to die in World War II. He perished with 99 other officers and crew when a U-boat torpedoed his destroyer off Iceland less than six weeks before the U.S. entered the war. The U.S.S. Reuben James was escorting a convoy from Nova Scotia to Liverpool. Cosgrove's cousins attended the project's kickoff.
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