{"id":386515,"date":"2026-08-31T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386515\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:50:36","slug":"festival-park-cape-coral-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386515\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Park | Cape Coral, FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoral.gov\/departments\/office_of_communications\/project_updates.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See More City Projects &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Status:<\/p>\n<p>Groundbreaking ceremony held on July 26, 2024<br \/>\nPark construction is 95% complete<\/p>\n<p>Festival Park will be opening August 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">The City of Cape Coral invites residents and community members to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of the new Festival Park. The ceremony will take place on\u00a0Friday, August 14, at 9 a.m.\u00a0at Festival Park, located at 2609 NW 11th\u00a0Court. The event is open to the public, and no reservation is required to attend.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">Festival Park will provide Cape Coral with multi-use sports fields and festival grounds for large events. Other amenities will include a concessions and restroom building and electrical infrastructure for a future amphitheater.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/festivalpark-projectimages.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"Composite of three images: an aerial view of festival park with grass and several plots under construction, another aerial without grass and plots under construction, and a thumbnail of the proposed map of the park\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\"\/><br \/>\nJuly 2026 Update<\/p>\n<p>Groundbreaking: 7\/26\/2024<br \/>\nNTP: 7\/1\/2024<br \/>\nContract Duration: 510 days<br \/>\nConstruction is 95% Complete<br \/>\nSubstantial Completion: 7\/24\/26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoral.gov\/Documents\/Departments\/Park Recreation\/Parks GO Bond\/GO Bond Projects\/Festival Park Final.pdf?t=202510021551510\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FINAL Site Plan<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Festival Park Final.jpg\" alt=\"Festival Park map, including: 4 soccer fields, 6 future soccer fields, amphitheater, and unpaved event overflow parking\" width=\"737\" height=\"478\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See More City Projects &gt;&gt; Status: Groundbreaking ceremony held on July 26, 2024 Park construction is 95% complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-386515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386515","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=386515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}