South Pointe Park
South Pointe Park | |
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Type | Municipal |
Location | South Beach, Miami, Florida, United States |
Area | 17 acres (6.9 ha) |
Created | 1979 |
Operated by | Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department |
Status | Open all year |
South Pointe Park, known locally as South Pointe, is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) county urban park in metropolitan Miami, in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida.
History
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Opening on October 25, 1985, it became the nineteenth public park in Miami Beach, built at a cost of $3.6 million (1984). Initial features included an amphitheater, two wooden observation towers, picnic pavilions, fitness courses and a 522-foot (159 m) wooden boardwalk over Miami Beach's last natural sand dune. During planning phases, city officials worried it would become a home to vagrants, and to discourage that they planned the park to be a home to frequent festivals and other events.[2] The park became part of a larger plan in the 1980s to renovate the city's run down South Pointe area.
Renovation plans were first drawn up in the city's 1995 master plan, but it wasn't until 2008 that the park underwent a major renovation program. The Hargreaves Associates, of New York City, were hired to redesign the park. The renovation was completed 20 months later around March 2009, at a cost of $22.5 million. Features added in the renovation included 20-foot (6.1 m)-wide walkways lined with Florida limestone and an ocean-themed children's playground.[3]
Amenities
The park offers various features, including a restaurant, frozen yogurt concession, kids area, a