PlayCore

PlayCore designs, manufactures, and builds play, recreation, and outdoor spaces, working through a family of brands that together cover hundreds of product choices across dozens of categories. Projects range from small local parks to large corporate campuses, and the company sells turnkey: design, products, and installation from one source.

Alongside the products, PlayCore runs a Center for Outreach, Research, and Education (CORE). CORE publishes a resource library of evidence-based design guides, planning and advocacy tools, standards-based curriculum, and case examples, and runs a Professional Development Hub where practitioners can earn Continuing Education Units. Its Community Vitality Framework defines eight domains used to align project goals with community outcomes.

The research behind that material comes from a Research Institute of scholars, universities, and research centers. National Demonstration Sites take part in ongoing data collection and receive reports measuring the impact of their evidence-based design, which owners can use with community stakeholders or in fundraising. The company describes its business as built on relationships with customers, representatives, suppliers, and industry affiliates.

No pricing is published and no corporate address appears in the vendor record; the site lists 544 Chestnut Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402 with a toll-free and local phone number. Ask which brand within the group supplies a given product, since specification and lead time vary by brand.