For Now, Boca's North Park Lives at One Corner on Jeffrey Street

North Park covers 212 acres at 5800 NW 2nd Ave, but everything you can use there sits within a short walk of where Jeffrey Street meets NW 2nd Avenue. One feature is open today: a painted practice street for kids on bikes. The second opens November 18. It's an indoor pickleball and padel club that you join or pay to enter for the day. The trails, dog park and playground that most people picture when they hear "North Park" are being built now, across the avenue on the east side.

So for the next year or so, North Park is a corner and not yet a park. If you live in Boca Teeca or anywhere along the NW 2nd Avenue corridor, knowing which pieces are open, which are being built and which haven't been decided tells you what you can do there this season.

Eight Years, One Open Feature

The Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District bought the defunct Ocean Breeze Golf Course in the Boca Teeca section of east Boca Raton in 2018. The District retired the purchase bond in summer 2025, nearly seven years before it was due, and says doing so sped up development. When ground broke this September, the District's executive director, Briann Harms, told The Boca Raton Tribune that "It's a long time coming," and pointed to "all the obstacles we had to go through."

The one thing open so far is the Traffic Garden on Jeffrey Street, just west of NW 2nd Avenue. In July 2025, crews converted old tennis-court pavement there into a car-free miniature street layout. It has painted lanes and child-sized stop, yield and one-way signs, so young cyclists and scooter riders can practice road rules without traffic. It opened in August 2025, and a public ribbon cutting was scheduled for that September 4. Since then the District has added restrooms and a shaded seating area where parents can watch their kids, and there's a parking lot right next to it.

It's small, it's free, and for now it's the only part of North Park you can walk into without a pass.

The Second Opening Is a Club With a Public Door

The next thing to open at North Park is Boca Paddle by CityPickle, which lists its address as 50 W. Jeffery St. It has 19 cushioned pickleball courts, including a stadium court, plus six high-clearance padel courts, all on one site. The Tribune describes it as a 100,000-square-foot, 25-court indoor racquet club built under a separate public-private partnership with Butters Construction & Development. The club's site lists its grand opening as November 18, about three weeks from now, and BocaPost places the opening in November 2026.

BocaPost put the arrangement simply: Boca Paddle is a private club on public property. In the proposal Boca Paddle submitted in July 2023, which the District posted, the company offered to fund construction, operations and maintenance itself. In return it asked for a 49-year initial term and offered the District a share of gross receipts. Those were proposal terms, but the structure explains why the District's park includes a club with membership tiers.

You don't need a membership to get in, though. Here's how a nonmember or a new member gets onto a court, according to the club's membership page:

The membership page also shows day-pass holders booking courts at the member rate. The page lists couple and family plans too. Couple plans run $268 a month for Standard and $418 for Plus. Family plans run $399 and $549, and cover up to five people in the same household. The Community tier is the cheapest membership, and its programming is limited to weekday daytime hours.

You can visit the restaurant and bar without playing. BocaPost reports that the restaurant, presented by Farmer's Table, takes walk-ins without a club pass. Once it opens, that will make the Jeffrey Street corner a place to get a meal as well as a place to play.

The Park Itself Starts East of NW 2nd Avenue

The trails, dog park and playground are on the east side, and that work only started this fall. Here's the timeline as the District and local outlets have reported it:

1. June 2025. Boca Paddle breaks ground on its court building.
2. August 2025. The Traffic Garden opens.
3. Summer 2026. District commissioners pick Butters Construction & Development to build the roughly 70 acres east of NW 2nd Avenue.
4. September 3, 2026. All five commissioners break ground in the southeast parking lot near Boca Paddle.
5. November 18, 2026. Boca Paddle's listed grand opening.

When the east side is finished, it's planned to have more than five miles of walking and riding trails, some with exercise equipment, plus a dog park, a playground and more than 1,000 new native trees. Crews have already started removing invasive trees and plants, which the code requires. The District says the whole project will meet Sustainable SITES Initiative standards. District Chair Bob Rollins called the groundbreaking "the end of the beginning."

Nobody has announced an opening date. TAPinto Boca Raton described the east side as a project of roughly $20 million, including soil remediation, and reported that Butters submitted a 16-month schedule but was aiming to finish in 12. Counting from the September groundbreaking, a 12-month finish would mean fall 2027. That's the earliest you could walk a dog on the new trails.

Approved but Not Scheduled: The Skatepark

A 42,000-square-foot skatepark and pump track is next in line. District commissioners approved its design in January 2026. On September 3, 2026, the same morning as the groundbreaking, the City Planning and Zoning Board approved the site-plan amendment 7-0, and the plan didn't need to go to City Council.

According to BocaPost, the skatepark will be free. The District plans to build it and then hand it to the City to run. No construction start date has been set.

The West Side Is Still an Open Question

The District's own project page lists a field house, a skatepark and aquatic facilities as proposed features that are not yet approved. At the September hearing, the District's executive director said North Park has only a conceptual plan. She added that golf and an aquatic facility have long been discussed for the west side. In October 2025, the District said golf amenities were one of several proposals still under evaluation, and that it wouldn't accept any of them until the details were settled and a contract was signed.

The neighbors most affected have been making their case. BocaPost reported that representatives of the Boca Teeca condominiums attended the September hearing. One of them said the Presidents Council speaks for 13 associations and about 1,600 units. Six condominium boards have passed resolutions supporting golf, a community center and green space over what they called "incompatible development," and speakers raised traffic and noise. The Tribune noted that speakers at District meetings keep pushing for golf. It also quoted a retired city staffer who welcomed the idea that kids could someday walk five blocks to North Park. Meanwhile, the District has voted not to consider a new Boca Raton Boys & Girls Club for the site.

The District will decide the west side in future meetings. None of those decisions has been made yet.

Using North Park This Season

Here's what the corner offers for the rest of 2026:

• Traffic Garden, any day you have a young rider. It's free, with parking next door, restrooms and shaded seating. Bring a bike or scooter.
• Boca Paddle from November 18. Boca Raton residents can buy a $35 day pass with proof of residence and book courts up to 24 hours ahead. Before opening, the club is also offering hard-hat tours through its website.
• Farmer's Table at the club. BocaPost reports that you can walk in without a pass.
• Following the east side. The District posts updates on its North Park project page, which is the first place a trail or dog park opening date would appear.

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