{"id":371303,"date":"2026-08-14T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371303\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:08:07","slug":"cape-coral-ribbon-cutting-set-for-festival-park-near-chiquita-blvd-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371303\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral ribbon-cutting set for Festival Park near Chiquita Blvd. | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A park eight years in the making is opening in Cape Coral on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A ribbon-cutting for Festival Park is scheduled for 9 a.m. The brand-new park is located in North Cape near Chiquita Blvd. and Kismet Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Land set to be Festival Park\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The land set to be Festival Park. CREDIT: WINK News<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Paul Dolan<\/p>\n<p>Festival Park has been in the works since voters approved the Parks Go Bond in 2018. The $17 million park features 10 multi-use sports fields and festival grounds for large community events.<\/p>\n<p>The amphitheater is still to come, but electrical infrastructure is already in place. There&#8217;s also a restroom and concessions building.<\/p>\n<p>During hurricane season, the park can also serve as a storm shelter for Cape Coral neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A park eight years in the making is opening in Cape Coral on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-371303","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371303","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=371303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}