{"id":14860,"date":"2025-10-22T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:37:08","slug":"cape-corals-jaycee-park-renovation-divides-residents-gb-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14860\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral\u2019s Jaycee Park renovation divides residents\u00a0 | GB Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaycee Park in Cape Coral has been closed for nearly a year as crews continue construction on the city\u2019s major renovation project. The foundation for the bandshell and bistro was poured, with restroom and boardwalk work underway. The redesigned park will feature picnic areas, fitness stations and a playground when completed. While some residents support the improvements, others have protested the loss of the park\u2019s quiet atmosphere and worry about increased traffic. The next construction phase includes underground utilities, boardwalk framing and a splash pad. The city expects to reopen the park in April 2026, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Hyperlink SCXW1132230 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/cape-corals-jaycee-park-renovations-spark-mixed-reactions-from-locals\/article_9e0bfcd8-f657-45ec-96ae-ac06d33217f5.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WINK News reports.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaycee Park in Cape Coral has been closed for nearly a year as crews continue construction on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335],"class_list":["post-14860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-gb-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}