{"id":446100,"date":"2026-11-03T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446100\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:08:11","slug":"cape-coral-city-council-rejects-historic-designation-for-four-freedoms-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446100\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral City Council rejects historic designation for Four Freedoms Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/f3bd3e42-d73f-4622-913f-4ae7ff0ba91d_1769629740.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Carson Zorn\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Cape Coral City Council voted at Monday night\u2019s meeting to reject the nomination of Four Freedoms Park as a historic and cultural resource.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The site is set to undergo redevelopment as part of the approved Bimini East development plan.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Louis Madden, a Cape Coral resident, had attempted to preserve the park by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/four-freedoms-park-historic-status-demo-cape-coral\/74288649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> nominating it for historic designation<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The council posited that the decision does not erase the park&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The council\u2019s resolution directs city staff to collaborate with the Cape Coral Historical Society to establish a historical monument for the park.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Cape Coral City Council voted at Monday night\u2019s meeting to reject the nomination of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-446100","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\/446100","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=446100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}