{"id":221904,"date":"2026-04-07T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:33:08","slug":"ribbon-cutting-for-south-tampas-freshest-park-and-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221904\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon Cutting For South Tampa&#8217;s Freshest Park and Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Tampa is cutting the ribbon today on a beautiful, new South Tampa park and playground.<\/p>\n<p>The space, formally South Dundee Park, but called Butterfly Glade Park by the neighbors, covers about half an acre. It includes multiple play structures: a pendulum swing, a climbing net, a balance log, and balance posts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We built a brand new park from nothing,&#8221; Mayor Jane Castor said. &#8220;And it was a great collaboration between Parks &amp; Recreation, the Green Team, Mobility, the Sunset Park Area Homeowners Association, and a devoted father, Christian Brown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parks &amp; Recreation has spent nearly $700,000 here. Brown donated $200,000 to this project, which includes a butterfly garden and artwork by his daughter, Brooke, who passed away at age 18 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Brooke, who attended Plant High School and is pictured below, aspired to be a nurse. She enjoyed working out, outdoor music festivals, and creating art. She illustrated a children&#8217;s book titled &#8220;Apes, Bears, Cats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to thank Hillsborough County, for giving approval to our Mobility Department to handle the safety work on West Shore Boulevard, which is a County road,&#8221; Parks &amp; Recreation Director Ted Fowler said. &#8220;And Parks &amp; Recreation staffers and the Green Team did much of the planting, preparation, and ecosystem improvements themselves, to save time and money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new park is located at 2703 S Westshore Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a56ae1d9-bcd7-3de4-6998-3007055b379e.jpg\" alt=\"Brooke\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Tampa is cutting the ribbon today on a beautiful, new South Tampa park and playground.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-221904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221904","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=221904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}