PARKLAND, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2025) — Wedge Preserve Park is finally starting to look like a park, or at least the early bones of one, out at the northeast corner of West Hillsboro Boulevard and Nob Hill Road. Crews have been pushing ahead on the 36-acre site where the city says it wants a mix of open space, ballfields, play areas, and a few spots where people can just sit and let the day settle in.

Early plans call for quite a bit — a ballfield for adults, a multi-purpose field, a big ninja course, basketball courts, even eight covered pickleball courts. Then there’s the quieter stuff like boardwalks and docks, a little play village, and a splash pad tucked in somewhere near the middle. Park staff has been careful to say the list could grow or shrink since the budget isn’t locked tight. Renderings floating around are only for show, they’ve said, meant to give folks a sense of what might land there. Some of the money comes from Florida Communities Trust.

The city broke ground on June 23, 2025. Mayor Rich Walker handled the ceremony and kept the tone light. “Wedge Preserve Park reflects the values that define Parkland: access to play, open space for gatherings, and that unmistakable small-town charm that makes our city feel like home,” he said. He added that whether it’s a pickup pickleball match or a kid’s first hit on a ballfield, the park should become the kind of place people return to without thinking too hard about it.

He went down the thank-you list — current and former commissioners, State Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, Broward Commissioner Michael Udine, School Board Member Lori Alhadeff — and then nodded toward the teams actually building the thing: CPH Inc. on design, Kaufman Lynn Construction on the ground, plus city staff lined up along the edge of the site.

A recent “Mayor’s Minute” video gives a better sense of what’s happening behind the fences. Next to the construction trailer, the steel frame for the maintenance building is already standing. A little farther over, the restroom building is working its way out of the dirt. The foundations and anchors for those covered pickleball courts are in, eight of them, though right now they’re just concrete pads and metal points sticking up like ribs.

Underfoot — not that you’d want to walk the site in your good shoes — workers are trenching and laying electrical, water, sewer. A lot of the work people won’t ever see once the park opens. Out near the back of the property, the pond is taking shape. The mayor calls it a future sunset spot, and it’s easy enough to picture it if you squint past the machinery.

Right next to that, the community center is rising. Trusses are up, concrete flooring is down, and the covered porch is just starting to make sense. It’s the kind of mid-construction scene where half the features look finished if you catch them at the right angle but then you turn your head and see bare block or open studs.

Each week brings another layer, Walker says in the video, and he’s not wrong. The pace isn’t slow. You drive by on a weekday and there’s usually a crane or a lift moving around, trucks lined up along the fence on Hillsboro.

There’s no firm opening date yet, not in anything the city has released, but judging by the speed of the work shown in the update, residents should expect the corner to change again and again over the next stretch — buildings enclosed, courts surfaced, then the recognizable pieces of a park slipping into place.