Congress Avenue Park

Congress Avenue
Barrier Free Park
Boynton Beach, Florida

Owner:
City of Boynton Beach

Contract Amount: $1,412,366

Completed:
End of Year 2011
Construction of a barrier– free, swamp themed park where people with any level of disability can get to and use certain features.

Sensory play areas will include a music garden, sand area and possibly a dig area. The park will include a bamboo grove, which provides a distinctive rattle when moved by breezes, and flowers with different aromas. Art will be built into the walls and paths. Play areas will include a settlement area, where play equipment will have a number of different
levels and surfaces; a fish camp area with a rustic cabin feel to it; a spider web area that will have concrete animals on which to play. A stream bed will run through the areas, connecting two ponds.

Also constructed with be three 180 SF, single story restroom buildings
constructed of concrete block under a single pre- engineered metal
structure, and one 660 SF pre-fabricated metal picnic shelter.