BRISTOL, Tenn. – The Legacy Parks Foundation has received a $10 million endowment and is proposing to build a playground at Steele Creek Park.

The playground/park space would be dedicated to the memory of Katherine Dunn, who died of cancer at age 30.

On Tuesday, her parents Danny Dunn and Jaqueline Dunn spoke about the proposal during the Bristol, Tennessee City Council work session.

"I have made it a policy, a point for my life during my lifetime as a father, not to brag about my children, except to their grandparents. Now, I'm going to brag a little bit about this girl," Danny Dunn said. "She was a uniquely compassionate person who always made others feel special. She was loved and beloved by her peers. She was a wonderful daughter and she was a wonderful sister. A wonderful wife, she was a wonderful mother to three children."

At the council work session, Carol Evans, the executive director of the Legacy Parks Foundation, which is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based nonprofit organization, highlighted that the endowment is designated to be used to create a park, a play space for all Bristolians to enjoy.

"The project criteria we were given is that first and foremost, make it a park for all, a play space for all and make it a city asset and make it also really a signature destination for the community and for the citizens to be able to enjoy," Evans said.

The endowment includes funds for the maintenance and management of the playground.

"There is sufficient budget to do something just really spectacular and meaningful and inclusive and memorable," Evans said.

The Legacy Parks Foundation has put together a team to oversee the project and is currently in the due diligence phase with an eye to having the playground built by 2025.

"We should have the programming and the concept done by June," Evans said. "The next phase is what we call concept design development, over permitting, the sourcing of equipment materials that would occur, creating the construction documents and that takes about six to nine months, and then the construction phase could take six to nine months."

The Legacy Parks Foundation is working closely with the Bristol, Tennessee Park and Recreation department to identify a location within Steele Creek Park for the playground.