1980s

The 1980s marked the third generation of the Burke family to enter the playground business. In 1987, Bill’s son, Greg Burke purchased the J.E. Burke company from his father, uncle and aunt. With the change in leadership, the company was renamed to Burke Company Incorporated or BCI Burke. 

 

Greg was a playground visionary like his grandfather. He saw that a new trend in playground design was taking shape -- moving from individual play equipment to combining components into one unit and making use of decks and stairs as connectors. Burke enters to new era of modular play with its signature Series 2000 in 1989. The unique design employs a high-quality clamp and post system. In continuing with his grandfather’s commitment to create only the best-engineered playground equipment on the market, Greg designs the clamps to be ultra secure with stainless steel 5/16” drive pins.