{"id":53720,"date":"2022-06-21T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53720"},"modified":"2022-06-21T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:00:17","slug":"lee-commissioners-approve-construction-phase-of-lehigh-acres-park-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/06\/lee-commissioners-approve-construction-phase-of-lehigh-acres-park-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Commissioners approve construction phase of Lehigh Acres Park expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lee Board of County Commissioners voted to approve an agreement Tuesday for the construction phase to expand Lehigh Acres Park, with a budget of $16.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/screen-shot-2021-07-22-at-6.39.24-AM-1024x713.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/screen-shot-2021-07-22-at-6.39.24-AM-1024x713.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/screen-shot-2021-07-22-at-6.39.24-AM-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/screen-shot-2021-07-22-at-6.39.24-AM-768x535.png 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/screen-shot-2021-07-22-at-6.39.24-AM-1536x1069.png 1536w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/screen-shot-2021-07-22-at-6.39.24-AM-2048x1426.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About 41 acres of vacant land will be developed to accommodate the increased demand. The expansion will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Three football fields with lighting<\/li><li>Permanent restroom facilities<\/li><li>Disc golf course<\/li><li>Concession building<\/li><li>Locker rooms<\/li><li>Paved parking lot<\/li><li>Pavilions<\/li><li>Nature trails<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The existing park also will be upgraded with the addition of four pickleball courts, the relocation of the batting cage, and the construction of a covered maintenance building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Raiders Football league will provide the scoreboards for each of the football fields and kitchen equipment for the concession building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is planned to be completed by December 2023. Chris-Tel Construction Company a local construction company in SWFL will build the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee Board of County Commissioners voted to approve an agreement Tuesday for the construction phase to expand Lehigh Acres Park, with a budget of $16.6 million. About 41 acres&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53722,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53720\/revisions\/53722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}