Officials gathered Tuesday morning to celebrate the re-opening of Hemenway Playground, addressing community members and showing off the refurbished structures in the play area on Adams Street.

The park features an embankment slide funded through a $20,000 donation from the Friends of Frieda Garcia Park. Slide costs included, the play site was completed with a design and construction budget of $404,700, according to the city's Parks and Recreation Department.

Mayor Martin Walsh used the occasion to hold a Neighborhood Coffee Hour as officials and children, eager to break in the new equipment, cut a ceremonial ribbon beside the banana-yellow climbing gym.

The city’s capital plan largely paid for the renovation, and with fiscal year 2017 budget discussions under way, Walsh is looking ahead, he told those on hand on Tuesday, “As this year’s budget is moving forward, there’s a lot in it for the neighborhood,” he said, noting the $5 million allocated for Garvey Park and forthcoming library improvements, including a $12 million renovation of the Adams Street branch.

Walsh said there would be “a good amount” of activity starting soon on street and sidewalk improvements and tree plantings in Dorchester.

“Overall, things are moving along really well, I think,” he added.

Department representatives from neighborhood development, parks, inspectional services along with state Rep. Dan Hunt and City Councillor At-Large Annissa Essaibi George spoke with members of the public as they mingled over coffee and doughnuts.

Hunt told the gathering that it was heartening for him to see some of the projects he worked on while at the Department of Conservation and Recreation coming to fruition now.

“You’ve taken bold steps,” Hunt told Walsh, “as far as new ideas and bringing new development to Boston, and exciting things like GE. But we in the neighborhood know that you’re a guy who thinks about boots on the ground, and where does government reach and interact with the citizens of Boston.”