"We couldn't help it," said Al Oxonian, Campbell senior civil engineer in charge of the project. "We had a whole lot of rain."

As part of a general community center renovation effort, the old skate park, which was parallel to Campbell Avenue and located inside the old tennis courts, was moved closer to the football field and rebuilt, complete with a new restroom.

Expected to open sometime in late December or early January, the recent unusually heavy rains delayed reopening the park until Feb. 15.

Workers still need to paint a new fence and put some finishing touches on the restroom, Oxonian said.

The rains also pushed back the grand opening date of new night-lit outdoor handball walls and tennis courts.

"We really would have liked to open all of these much earlier," said Campbell Director of Public Works Bob Kass. "But it's more important to get a good product than rush things through when you have weather issues."

Like the skate park, the handball walls, which Kass said will be the nicest regulation outdoor handball walls in Northern California, are almost finished and are expected to be open by Feb. 15.

"We're just finishing up the surfacing of the courts themselves and we're scheduling the striping," he said.

The tennis courts are another story.

"I don't know when that will open," Oxonian said, explaining that there's a problem with finishing the surface. "After we put on the new surface it needs to cure, but with the late cold weather the contractor hasn't been able to put it in."

He said curing the surface will require a full week where temperatures stay above 50 or 60 degrees, something Campbell hasn't experienced lately.

Nonetheless, Kass said people still might be allowed to play on the tennis courts by Feb. 15. But they will have to play on a basic concrete surface, until the new covering is laid down and striped, hopefully by spring, he said.

Despite the delays, Kass said he's satisfied with the overall renovation effort so far.

While there isn't much left to do on the projects, he said he still would advise people to check back with the city around Feb.1 if they wanted to find out if there have been any more changes to the reopening schedule.