Healthy Living Park Acquires Property The Rio Grande Healthy Living Park in Alamosa is one step closer to becoming a reality after backers of the project won a lawsuit and managed to purchase the controversial property from the developer. The site of the proposed park, the Polston property, adjacent to the Rio Grande river, created a city-wide controversy when the Alamosa School Board, who owned the property, agreed to sell it to Dan Russell, the county’s elected land surveyor, for $500,000. Russell wanted to build a high-end RV resort. Several area nonprofits and community activists hoped to raise the $755,000 ...
