More than 200 community members volunteered Thursday to transform Lane Street Park in Raleigh with a state of the art playground.

Raleigh's Parks and Recreation department partnered with the non-profit organization KaBOOM! and The Home Depot to bring the project to life.

Beginning at 8 a.m., volunteers hammered nails, dug holes and tightened bolts as music blasted from speakers.

The project took just six hours to complete.

The playground is funded through a $61,000 grant from The Home Depot Foundation and a $7,500 contribution from the Parks and Recreation department.

"We are building a one of a kind dream playground for these kids," KaBOOM!

When Mary Moring heard there was a project to re-vamp Lane Street Park, the 86-year-old put down her walker and picked up a shovel.

"I want to use my arms, my limbs," she said.

Moring has lived in the neighborhood more than 40 years.

A playground like this usually costs more than $60,000 to build, but a grant from The Home Depot and other community donations allowed the city to build the park for about a tenth of that.

"This is my home," Joe Verdicchio, Raleigh-Durham District Manager for The Home Depot, said. "We want to make sure we're doing the right thing to take care of the people locally."

The playground was just the beginning.

A new fence and landscaping were added to the park and with a DJ mixing music, at times the project doubled as a dance party

There was also plenty of work to go around and everyone had something to do.

Police officers shoveled sod, residents mixed concrete and students from Saint Augustine's College raked.

"Since St. Aug's is right around the corner, we wanted to have good representation in the community," senior Kevin Robinson said. "We wanted to make sure we gave back to our St. Aug's community."

Once the swing set was carried and placed in its exact spot and when the slide was up and the sidewalk swept, the volunteers christened the park in their own unique way.

They sawed through an orange board with the sponsor's names on it.

Now volunteers said there is only one job left for the community.

"Come out here and enjoy this playground," Shawsheen Baker, a landscape architect with the Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department, said.