Almost 12 years after Chinatown’s Ping Tom Park opened, the next big chunk is almost ready to debut.

The next section of the park should be open in “the next week or so,” park district spokeswoman Zvezdana Kubat said last Wednesday afternoon, after Chicago Journal had gone to press.

“Only punch list items are left, and for the most part it’s ready to go,” Kubat said.

The park’s new expansion is already open to the public and features mostly passive space, such as boardwalks and a landscaped river edge.

But the park district is looking at even more ways to improve Ping Tom. On Monday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel visited the park to announce a series of four boathouses to be built along the river, one of which would be at Ping Tom Park.

The boathouses will be designed by Chris Lee and aforementioned “genius” Chicago architect Jeanne Gang, along with a team of students from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

The boathouses are estimated to cost $4 million each, about half of which Emanuel said would be paid for with private funding.

The Public Building Commission, which coordinates construction projects in the city of Chicago, is also already underway developing plans for a new field house at Ping Tom Park near the intersection of 18th Street and Wentworth Avenue, on the opposite side of a set of railroad tracks from the river.