New Parks Are Coming to Broward and Palm Beach County. Here Is Where They Are Going.

All information verified against city, county and district sources as of August 10, 2026.

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• Broward County
• Wedge Preserve Park, Parkland
• A New Neighborhood Park for East Tamarac
• Coral Springs Sportsplex
• Palm Beach County
• North Park, Boca Raton
• Pompey Park, Delray Beach
• Lake Lytal Park Aquatic Center and Skate Park, West Palm Beach
• Gardens Nature Park and Trail, Palm Beach Gardens
• Miracle League Field, John Prince Memorial Park, Lake Worth
• Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center Expansion
• Already Open in 2026
• Huizenga Park, Fort Lauderdale
• West Boynton Park Turf Fields
• The Traffic Garden at North Park, Boca Raton
• Why This Is All Happening at Once
• Sources
• Frequently Asked Questions

South Florida does not have much land left. That is exactly why the parks story right now is worth paying attention to. Nearly every major project in the pipeline is being built on land that used to be something else. A golf course. A preserved wedge of leftover acreage. A residential parcel a city rezoned. A preserve a developer handed over as a condition of approval.

We went through city and county records, construction contracts, commission agendas and district meeting minutes across both counties to put together the current picture. Everything below is a public park or a public facility inside a public park. Private venues and commercial developments are not included.

Broward County

Wedge Preserve Park, Parkland

This is the closest thing either county has to a finished new park, and it is the one to watch this fall.

Wedge Preserve Park broke ground on June 23, 2025 at the corner of West Hillsboro Boulevard and Nob Hill Road, and it will deliver 36 acres of what the city calls unprogrammed recreation.

The proposed amenity list is long: an adult baseball and softball field, a multi-purpose field, basketball courts, covered pickleball, a large ninja course, an all-ages playground, a mini play village, a splash pad, a pavilion, restrooms, boardwalks and docks, and a maintenance building. Mayor Rich Walker has also described a versatile community building residents will be able to use for classes or rent for birthdays, receptions and family reunions.

The approved site plan for Wedge Preserve Park. The City of Parkland notes amenities may be added, removed or phased based on cost.

On timing: Christine Garcia, Parkland's senior director of operational services and projects, told the city's parks advisory board that the project runs on a 19-month schedule, which puts completion around November 2026 barring storms or major weather delays. That remains the most specific public timeline anyone has put on it. As of the mayor's spring update, clearing, pond excavation and grading were done and the site had moved into vertical work.

One caveat straight from the city: Parkland reserves the right to add, remove or phase in any of the potential amenities based on cost. The final park may not include everything currently on the list.

The project is partially funded through Florida Communities Trust. CPH Inc. handled the architecture and Kaufman Lynn Construction is building it.

A New Neighborhood Park for East Tamarac

On January 14, 2026, the Tamarac City Commission approved an ordinance amending the city's land use plan for 2.64 acres inside the Shaker Village community at 5699 West Commercial Boulevard, shifting the property from medium residential to recreation. A companion ordinance rezoned the parcel from multifamily residential to recreational, clearing the way for a new public park. The city's later procurement documents describe the buildable project site as roughly 2.35 surface acres, in a parcel between Commercial Boulevard and Canterbury Lane.

The centerpiece is a two-story, 10,000-square-foot recreation center built to serve as a community hub, with a reception area, exercise room, multipurpose room, offices, a Broward Sheriff's Office satellite office, and two large rooms that can each hold up to 150 people.

Parks and Recreation Director Melissa Petrone outlined the rest: a 6,000-square-foot playground with a shade structure and observation area, a fishing pier, tennis and basketball courts, a picnic pavilion, open green space, and upgraded landscaping and benches. The city's solicitation also lists a 10-foot-wide walking path.

The project was initially estimated at more than $7 million. City officials have said the final number will land higher because of the expanded recreation center and rising construction costs, and no final figure has been released. Funding is expected to come from a combination of grants, and the project has been described by city staff as grant-dependent. Mayor Michelle Gomez has said she is glad to see the long-anticipated project moving closer to reality.

Status: Land use and zoning approvals are complete, and Tamarac posted a design-build solicitation for the Eastside Park Community Center on March 13, 2026, which closed May 5. The city has not announced a construction start or an opening date.

Coral Springs Sportsplex

Coral Springs has its own nine-figure recreation project in motion. We covered that one separately in our piece on the Sportsplex 2026 plan, so we will not repeat the numbers here, but it belongs on any list of what is reshaping public recreation in north Broward.

Palm Beach County

North Park, Boca Raton

One of the largest park projects underway in either county, and the one with the longest backstory.

The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District bought the 212-acre former Ocean Breeze Golf Course in the Boca Teeca section of east Boca Raton in 2018, intending to turn it into a public park. Progress was slow. Two things unlocked it. First, the district retired the bond on the property in the summer of 2025, nearly seven years ahead of schedule. Second, after an initial round of bids came in over budget in December 2025 and the district voted to start over and re-advertise, a new round produced a contractor.

At a district meeting in June 2026, commissioners voted unanimously to award a construction contract to Butters Construction and Development for $19,741,054.81 covering roughly 69.49 acres on the east side at 5800 NW 2nd Avenue, according to the district's meeting record as reported by The Boca Raton Tribune. Butters was the lowest of four bidders. Executive director Briann Harms told commissioners before the vote that the plan covers about 70 acres on the east side. The scope includes multipurpose trails, mountain bike trails, gardens, a dog park, a playground, restroom buildings, a maintenance building, parking areas and related park infrastructure. No date for shovels in the ground was announced at the time of the award.

Community workshops held before design work identified walking trails and bike trails as the features residents most wanted. The plan also preserves golf elements and green space.

The skate park. District commissioners unanimously approved the design for a 42,000-square-foot skatepark and pump track at their January 20, 2026 public meeting. It will sit south of Jeffrey Street in the area east of NW 2nd Avenue, with every skating feature placed more than 300 feet from the nearest homes and noise reduction landscaping built into the design. The City of Boca Raton previously committed to funding two-thirds of construction cost. In July 2026 the plans went before city council at a workshop as part of the site plan process. District executive director Briann Harms has said American Ramp Company is contracted and ready to mobilize, but the project still has to clear public works review and permitting on the city's timeline. The new skatepark is intended to replace Tim Huxhold Skate Park, which is scheduled for demolition as part of the city's downtown campus plans.

Already open and free. One of the first finished public pieces of North Park is the Traffic Garden, on Jeffrey Street west of NW 2nd Avenue, which opened in August 2025. Crews converted former tennis courts into a car-free space where kids learn bicycle and road safety. There is dedicated parking adjacent to it.

Worth knowing if you follow Boca politics: the skate park location and a proposed softball and soccer complex at Sugar Sand Park have both drawn steady opposition at district and council meetings, with some residents pushing to relocate them.

Pompey Park, Delray Beach

Delray's overhaul of Pompey Park now has a price and a date. The city approved a guaranteed maximum price of $59.19 million, which came in nearly $4 million below the original estimate, and groundbreaking is scheduled for September 2026. The city has said construction will be phased to cause minimal disruption to current programming, though certain facilities will be temporarily inaccessible.

The rebuild includes two new pools, a new baseball field, a playground, basketball courts, additional restrooms, a park shelter, parking, and a new recreation building rated to Category 5 standards. The existing pool building and little league field are also being enhanced. The project is funded by the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency. Project completion has been referenced as 2027.

Pompey Park has served the surrounding neighborhood since the 1950s and is named for longtime Delray resident C. Spencer Pompey.

Also in Delray: roughly $10 million remains from the $20 million Parks Improvement general obligation bond voters approved in March 2023. The city manager's annual report says a formal presentation on that money is coming to the commission, and that it could include major improvements at Catherine Strong Park.

Lake Lytal Park Aquatic Center and Skate Park, West Palm Beach

The 55-year-old Lake Lytal Park near Kirk Road and Southern Boulevard is being rebuilt as a recreation campus through a joint venture between Palm Beach County and the YMCA of the Palm Beaches, worth close to $80 million combined.

The county is building a $36 million aquatic center to replace the 1975 pool. Jimmy Davis, the county's director of aquatics, has said the design is built around competition, with a Myrtha lining, the finish considered the standard for competition pools, and two movable bulkheads so the pool can host water polo and synchronized swimming alongside swim meets. The complex also includes a 13-foot dive well with at least three springboards and an aquatic play zone. County documents from late 2025 describe the competition pool at 70 meters, while more recent county comments have put it at 72, so treat the exact length as unsettled. Moving the complex to the west side of the park let the old pool stay open during construction.

The YMCA side is a $43 million community center and Olympic-style skate park, with the Y leasing about five acres for $10 a year under a 50-year renewable agreement. Each entity is financing and building its own facilities: the county is developing the aquatic center, and the YMCA is developing the community center and skate park.

Status: Both projects are on track to open in January 2027. A second YMCA phase would add a gymnatorium, an indoor track and a child care center.

Gardens Nature Park and Trail, Palm Beach Gardens

A different kind of project entirely. About 24 acres of land, donated to the City of Palm Beach Gardens by the developer of Avenir in March 2019 under a partnership established in 2016, is planned as a linear nature park giving the public access to Florida's natural habitats and wildlife.

The plan includes an open-air nature education pavilion with a restroom, an interpretive nature trail with signage, a butterfly and pollinator habitat, hiking trails, trailhead connections, a fishing pier, parking, landscaping, security lighting and cameras. The park sits next to the Avenir Conservation Area, which was transferred to the city after the developer completed restoration work, and near the Loxahatchee Slough. The city added the project to its five-year capital improvement plan in 2023 with a $3 million budget, roughly half of it from a federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grant administered through the state.

The project is now in its final planning phase before construction, and it is not uncontested. The city held the first of three community meetings in May 2026, where residents of the adjacent Regency at Avenir raised concerns about ADA accessibility, security, police access and environmental impacts, including potential effects on bald eagles.

Miracle League Field, John Prince Memorial Park, Lake Worth

Palm Beach County broke ground on June 11, 2026 on a barrier-free Miracle League field built for athletes who need more than a standard park diamond. It is designed to serve children and adults with disabilities across the county, as a partnership between Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation and the Miracle League of Palm Beach County. Funding comes from voter-approved one-penny infrastructure sales tax proceeds previously collected for park infrastructure. The county did not release a construction timeline, opening date or total project cost.

Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center Expansion

Royal Palm Beach broke ground on April 29, 2026 on a $20.1 million expansion and renovation of its recreation center on Sweet Bay Lane off Sparrow Drive, adding a new gymnasium and meeting rooms totaling 25,000 additional square feet. Kaufman Lynn Construction is leading the work. The village council approved the construction contract update in March 2026, and the job is planned in four phases over roughly 17 and a half months, with the expansion portion targeted first. Village officials expect completion by September 2027.

Already Open in 2026

Huizenga Park, Fort Lauderdale

If you have not been downtown this year, this one is finished. Huizenga Park reopened over the weekend of January 24 and 25, 2026 after a two-year, $15 million redesign of the 3.6-acre riverfront space at 32 East Las Olas Boulevard. Perkins and Will led the redesign, MBR Construction built it, and the funding came through a partnership involving the City of Fort Lauderdale, the State of Florida, the Fort Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority and private donors.

What is new: expanded lawns and shaded seating, a children's play moundscape, downtown Fort Lauderdale's first dedicated dog run, the restored Spirit of Fort Lauderdale Fountain, public art from Manolo Valdes and Cey Adams, and more than 13,500 new plants and 88 shade trees. The park is open daily and the programming calendar runs year round, with more than 150 events scheduled this year and most of them free.

West Boynton Park Turf Fields

Palm Beach County cut the ribbon on two new multi-sport turf fields at West Boynton Park on May 6, 2026, expanding programming capacity and year-round field access on the west side.

The Traffic Garden at North Park, Boca Raton

Covered above, but worth repeating in this section: it is open now, it is free, and it is one of the first finished public pieces of North Park.

Why This Is All Happening at Once

Look at the land underneath these projects and the pattern shows up fast. North Park is a dead golf course. Lake Lytal is a 55-year-old county park getting torn down to the studs. Tamarac's park is a residential parcel the commission rezoned to recreation. The Palm Beach Gardens nature park is developer-dedicated land from Avenir. Wedge Preserve sits on a wedge that got protected instead of built on.

In a region where raw developable land essentially does not exist anymore, new parks come from three places: land that stopped penciling out for its original use, land developers hand over as a condition of approval, and public money that lets a government build before a builder gets there.

That last category deserves a note. Two of the projects on this list, the Miracle League field and the Lake Lytal aquatic center, draw on Palm Beach County's one-penny infrastructure surtax. That surtax is gone. County commissioners approved an ordinance in April 2025 repealing the 1 percent infrastructure surtax effective December 31, 2025. Separately, voters in November 2024 approved a 0.5 percent school capital outlay surtax that took effect January 1, 2026. The net result is a county sales tax rate of 6.5 percent, down from 7 percent, with the remaining half cent going to schools rather than to parks and general infrastructure. Delray's Pompey Park runs on CRA money, and its remaining park improvements run on a 2023 voter-approved bond. Parkland tapped a state trust fund. Palm Beach Gardens is using a federal grant for roughly half its nature park. Tamarac's project is grant-dependent. None of this happens without somebody voting for it years earlier.

For homeowners, the practical read is simple. Park improvements tend to show up in neighborhood desirability well before they show up in a listing. If you live near Hillsboro and Nob Hill in Parkland, in Boca Teeca, around the Pompey Park corridor in Delray, in Shaker Village in Tamarac, or near Kirk and Southern in West Palm Beach, something substantial is being built near you that was not there before.

Sources

• City of Parkland, Wedge Preserve Park project page
• City of Parkland parks advisory board briefing on Wedge Preserve construction schedule and FY26 park projects
• Parkland Talk, Mayor Walker's Wedge Preserve Park update, April 2026
• Tamarac Talk, Tamarac Moves Forward with New East Side Community Park and Major City Upgrades, January 24, 2026
• City of Tamarac, Anticipated Procurement Opportunities, Eastside Park Community Center design-build solicitation, March 2026
• The Boca Raton Tribune, Long-Delayed Public Park Gets Off the Ground, June 22, 2026
• The Boca Raton Tribune, New Boca Skate Park Goes Before City Council for Permitting, July 29, 2026
• Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, North Park Skatepark Design Approved, January 2026
• Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, North Park Project page
• North Park Master Plan site
• City of Boca Raton, Recreation Relocations and Improvements
• Boca Post, Delray Beach Ends Highland Beach Water Deal, Sets Pompey Park Price In City Manager Annual Report, August 5, 2026
• Pompey Park Project site
• Stet News, Lake Lytal glow-up, July 2026
• Boca Post, Palm Beach County Set To Break Ground On New Lake Lytal Aquatic Center, November 2025
• Palm Beach County Parks, Lake Lytal Park
• Florida Department of Revenue, TIP 25A01-15, Palm Beach County surtax rate change, December 2025
• City of Palm Beach Gardens, Gardens Nature Park and Trail project page
• Stet News, Avenir residents caught between a park and a promise, June 2026
• WPTV, Gardens Nature Park and Trail community meeting coverage, May 2026
• Boca Post, Palm Beach County Breaks Ground On Miracle League Field At John Prince Memorial Park, June 2026
• Town-Crier, Groundbreaking For RPB Rec Center Expansion, May 2026
• Town-Crier, RPB Council OKs Contract For Recreation Center Expansion, April 2026
• Florida YIMBY, Huizenga Park Reopens Following $15 Million, Two-Year Redesign in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, February 2026
• Huizenga Park official site
• The Boca Raton Tribune, West Boynton Park Opens New Multi-Sport Turf Fields in Palm Beach County, May 2026

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