North Park: East Boca Is Getting a 212-Acre Park

East Boca Raton is getting a 212-acre park, and it is arriving on land that east-side owners have watched sit in limbo for years. North Park is rising on the former Ocean Breeze golf course in Boca Teeca, and it broke ground in September.

The land’s recent history is the point. This is a golf course the city bought in 2018. For a long stretch, the question hanging over it was simply what would become of it. That question is now answered, in the best available way for the neighborhoods around it: not rooftops, not a warehouse, not another negotiation. A park.

What the first phase includes

The first phase brings more than five miles of walking and riding trails, a dog park, a playground, and over 1,000 new native trees. Two pieces are further along than the rest. The children’s Traffic Garden is already open. And the Boca Paddle pickleball and padel club is targeting a November 2026 opening.

That mix matters more than the acreage alone. Trails and tree canopy are the quiet, permanent kind of amenity: they change how a neighborhood feels at street level, every day, for everyone who lives near it. The Traffic Garden being open already tells you this is not a rendering with a ribbon on it; families are using part of this park now. And a pickleball and padel club landing in the same project puts an active, social use beside the passive green space, which is how a new park becomes a habit rather than a headline.

Why an east Boca owner should care

Owners at the top of this market tend to think about value in terms of what happens inside their own gates, and at Royal Palm or The Sanctuary that instinct is mostly right. But no enclave exists by itself. The streets and public spaces between the gates set the tone of the whole east side, and buyers at $10 million notice the approach as much as the arrival.

A 212-acre public park does a specific kind of work in that calculation. It removes uncertainty. Land this size, this close to the waterfront neighborhoods, could have become almost anything, and for years owners nearby simply had to live with not knowing. Now the use is fixed, green, and permanent, with a phased buildout already underway. Permanence is what luxury buyers pay for, in a view corridor, in a seawall, and in the land across the street.

It also adds use, not just scenery. Trails, a dog park, and a playground serve the younger households moving into east Boca, and Boca Paddle serves the racquet-sport demand that every club in this city is currently trying to keep up with. Amenities like these are part of why families choose one side of a city over another, and those choices, repeated, are what hold neighborhood values up over a decade.

What to watch

Boca Paddle’s November target is the near-term test: a club opening on schedule inside the park turns phase one from a promise into a routine. After that, the trail mileage and the tree plantings are the pieces to watch, because they are what will make the park feel established rather than new.

We track North Park alongside every other project changing east Boca in our Boca Raton New Developments hub. It was first covered in our October issue, The New Boca Raton Takes Shape.

Sources (from the approved October 2026 issue):

• West Boca News (mywestboca.com), 2026 — North Park Boca: trails, dog park, Boca Paddle update: https://mywestboca.com/news/north-park-boca-trails-dog-park-boca-paddle-update
• All figures in this article (212 acres, former Ocean Breeze golf course in Boca Teeca, September groundbreaking, 2018 city purchase, more than five miles of trails, 1,000+ native trees, Traffic Garden open, Boca Paddle targeting November) are taken from the approved October issue only. No additional facts were added.

By Eric Levy, PA — Coldwell Banker Realty, Boca Raton · (561) 654-6199 · Eric.levy@cbrealty.com · ericlevypa.com
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A quiet next step: If you own in east Boca and want a clear read on how the new park, the resort, and the current closings net out for your street, call or text Eric at (561) 654-6199. Private, numbers-first, no obligation.