Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Grand Opening of Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill

It was announced that the Central Broward Regional Park, a 110-acre multipurpose facility located at Sunrise Boulevard and State Road 7 in Lauderhill, is scheduled to host its official opening ceremony on Friday, November 9, 2007, at 4 p.m.

The park will be home to a new 560-foot-diameter multipurpose main event field, which can host special events, concerts, festivals, and local and international sporting activities such as cricket, soccer, and football (meeting International Cricket Council guidelines), and has 5,000 covered seats and additional seating for 15,000 to 25,000 spectators. A 17,000-square-feet main event field building will include a concession area, locker rooms, restrooms, and a press viewing room on the first floor, and a VIP viewing room, a VIP lounge, and a presidential viewing box on the second floor.

Other park amenities include two lighted basketball courts, four lighted multipurpose fields that can be used as either two cricket fields or four soccer/football fields, two lighted netball courts with spectator seating, interactive aquatics playground area and teaching pool, paddleboat rentals, seven picnic shelters, two corporate pavilions, two ADA-accessible playgrounds, 1.5-mile nature trail, and an 80-foot-high clock tower. The Broward County Parks and Recreation Division will manage the facility.

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