Windmill Park

Client City of Coconut Creek
Services
  • Programming
  • Architectural Design
  • Master Planning
  • Site Plan Approval
  • Construction Documents
  • Permitting
  • Contract Administration
Status Completed in 2018
Success A community park, beloved by people and their canine pets, gets a much-needed, timely facelift and expansion.

Windmill Park

Coconut Creek, FL

Once home to a 160-acre tomato farm, Windmill Park is named for the iconic structure built, preserved, and dedicated to Earl F. Johns, whose pioneering family erected the windmill and farmed the land for nearly a century. In 1990, the family bequeathed the property to the city, and the site was enlivened with an assortment of outdoor recreation activities: tennis, basketball, racquetball, and volleyball courts; playground; gazebo; enclosed dog park; and the Eric Kantor Tennis Academy.

In 2011, the City of Coconut Creek purchased a neighboring two-acre lot, with plans for a major $2.4 million revamping. Seven years later, in 2018, the ambitious expansion went further, to include easier access to each area, new lighting, repositioned tennis courts, an expanded dog park, ADA-approved play apparatus, outdoor exercise paths and stations, shaded picnic pavilions, restrooms, and additional parking, at a final construction cost of $4.6 million. Retaining a sense of its farmstead origins, Windmill Park is dotted with rustic accents, including a corral fencing entry reminiscent of the original Johns’ home.