Ribbon-Cutting Celebration Held For Pinellas Park Adaptive Playground

PINELLAS PARK, FL — The city of Pinellas Park celebrated the grand opening of Broderick Park’s new adaptive playground with a ribbon-cutting and celebration Wednesday.

Equipment was designed specifically to help kids and adults with disabilities improve their range of motion, muscle tone, core strength, mobility and fitness.

The adaptive equipment was installed in a collaboration with the city's park staff under the leadership of Recreation Program Manager Tammy Peterson, who wrote the $25,000 grant from 10 Tampa Bay and the Tegna Foundation Community Grant, Pinellas County Schools, Nina Harris ESE Center staff and students, which is located next door to the playground, Pinellas County's Health In All Policies Initiative staff and GameTime play systems.

The adaptive playground at 6755 N 62nd St. is one of several projects destined to provide fitness opportunities for children in the community.

Pinellas County, the city of Largo and Pinellas County Schools are building a new youth multi-sports complex with mixed-used playing fields in an unincorporated area of Pinellas County between Pinellas Park and Largo. The 72-acre complex, to be called the High Point Community Park, will be constructed on the school-district owned site of the former High Point Elementary School.

The park will serve students of High Point Elementary during school hours and will be open to the residents of the High Point community after school hours and on the weekends.

It will include multipurpose athletic fields, basketball courts, lighting, a playground, a walking trail, a picnic shelter and restrooms.

The design of the park is underway and construction is expected to begin next year with a completion date in the fall of 2025.

The project is being funded through the Pennies for Pinellas sales tax and funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

Additionally, Pinellas Park is drawing up plans and raising funds for a reimagined Davis Commons in the Park Station District that will include a splash pad, an adaptive playground, a communit garden, a festival street, a community pavilion and open green space.

Davis Commons will serve as the central gathering place for the city. Construction will take place over the next four to seven years.