Oakland Park Breaks Ground on the City Park Project

The $40 Million Dollar Bond Projects In 2018 the residents of the City of Oakland Park overwhelmingly approved by vote a $40 million dollar bond to update and improve the City’s infrastructure for its second century. When speaking of the bond projects, City Manager David Hebert has shared that “Our new buildings will be models […]

5 Badass Things About City Park

Oakland Park’s City Park may be one of the most anticipated and bipartisan projects coming down the city’s pike. A model example of the city’s development and vision for the city’s future. The site of City Park will be the Collins community center 3900 NE 3rd Avenue, Oakland Park, FL 33334. The City Park Project […]

Oakland Park Neighborhood Meeting Discussing Former Kmart Site

An Oakland Park ordinance requests that a neighborhood participation meeting be held so that the residents of Oakland Park are informed. On Wednesday 7/29/20 at 6:30 pm the City of Oakland Park hosted the developers, RAM Construction and Development, LLC (RAM), who are working on the former Kmart site located at 670 E Oakland Park […]

Dr. Carter G Woodson Park: A Park with a Name

To understand the namesake of Dr. Carter G Woodson Park, one must travel back in time. Starting in Oakland Park’s earliest days when settlers came to the area in search of fruitful land to grow crops. This brought many sharecroppers to the area such as R.J. McBride, an Irish settler who bought acreage in Oakland […]

Oakland Parkers Peek Into The City’s Future

Plans to modernize the City of Oakland Park for its second century have been in the works for over a decade. Modernizing required additional funding so the City asked voters to approve a $40 million dollar bond. Seventy percent (70%) of residents approved the bond in November 2018. With this overwhelmingly majority approval, the City […]