The playground is now complete and the community will host an opening ceremony at 9 a.m. Sunday.
The property is a half-acre with trees for natural shade, level ground and a renovated bathroom. It was formerly a tee box for a golf hole, Vardaman said.
The land was donated, he said.
“I don’t know how you’d quantify a half acre lot that’s on a small lake but that was a very generous donation by the Bluewater Bay Resort,” Vardaman said. “We couldn’t have a park without land.”
Bluewater Bay was in need of a children’s park, too, Vardaman added.
SHALIMAR A children’s park in Bluewater Bay to honor a boy who died in an early 2019 accident could be ready to open to the public in April.
Twelve-year-old Abram Sitcer died April 28, 2019, when his bicycle was struck by a car at the roundabout intersection of Bluewater Boulevard and Southwind Drive in Bluewater Bay.
In remembrance of Abram, the owners of the Bluewater Bay Golf Course have donated a 1-acre parcel on Southwind Drive, about a quarter-mile south of the accident scene, for the park, to be called Abram Park.
The golf course owners partnered with Okaloosa County, the Bluewater Bay Municipal Services Benefit Unit (MSBU) and the nonprofit Friends of Bluewater Bay to establish the park.