KINGSTON — Recreational enhancements to three West Side parks that could take 20 years to fully implement will cost an estimated $19.5 million, project officials said Wednesday during the final public meeting for the Master Site Development Plan.

Held at the Friedman JCC in Kingston, the meeting was hosted by representatives from Simone Collins of Norristown, Gibson-Thomas Engineering, Camp Hill, and Princeton Hydro of Trenton, N.J., along with Project Coordinator Jim Brozena.

That team spent the last 10 months studying the ecology of the river sides of Nesbitt and Kirby parks in Wilkes-Barre and Riverbend Park in Kingston, stretching from the Veterans Memorial (Pierce Street) Bridge to south of the Cross Valley Expressway, to come up with enhancements to beautify those areas and improve

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