Broadview Park

The Board of Park Commissioners in November 2005 approved a cooperative service agreement between the Monroe County Community School Corporation (MCCSC) and the Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department for a one-acre neighborhood park at the former Broadview Elementary School.

With the closure of the Broadview Elementary School, the City of Bloomington Housing and Neighborhood Development Department and the Planning and Transportation Department, and the Broadview Neighborhood Association, proposed that the Parks and Recreation Department operate the area behind the school that contained playground equipment and a small basketball court, to maintain the benefits of keeping this area as a neighborhood park. MCCSC retains ownership of the Broadview Park property.

The Parks and Recreation Department received a $125,000 Community Development Block Grant to fund the installation of new playground equipment, and to install a picnic shelter, park benches, a drinking fountain and picnic tables. The playground was officially opened May 23, 2007. Read the news release from May 18, 2007 about the dedication ceremony for Broadview Park.

Parking: One concrete parking lot immediately north of Broadview Park. The parking lot is owned and managed by MCCSC. There are no designated handicap accessible spaces in the lot, which has 36 vehicle parking spaces. It is approximately 272' across the concrete parking lot from the farthest vehicle parking space to the park entrance.

Accessibility: Level concrete paths surround the park's two play areas, a swingset with four swings, and a small, unreservable picnic shelter. One play area and the swings have engineered wood fiber surfacing, while the smaller of the play areas features wheelchair accessible poured in place rubber surfacing. 

Amenities: The park includes a shade structure as well as natural shade from mature trees. There is a half-court size asphalt basketball court; access to the basketball court is over a level grass surface. The park includes numerous benches and picnic tables under the picnic shelter. The one-acre park is surrounded by a chain link fence. There is a drinking fountain, available seasonally, and bicycle parking at a bike rack at the park entrance in the northeast corner.