Central Park

No, this is not about New York. And unless it is dedicated to one of the community developer's officers of to one of the community's outstanding residents, I would just like to refer to our community's large open space as this, - The Central Park.

Compared to more recent developed communities or subdivisions, the size of BF Homes Quezon City's park is quite generous. This is inspite of having our community developed way before the subdivision design guidelines were put in place and long before the Housing & Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) was established. I barely remember that as early as the 1970s, there was the pool & court facilities (at least the basketball court I remember), a children's playground and skating rink. The only structure then apart from the reservoir tank, was the original administration building overlooking the pool area. At that time, the Central Park appeared as one big open space with barely any trees or shrubs. While I may not be completely accurate, what comes to my mind is a warm, grass covered expansive park with tall grasses at the fringes.

Since then, there has been a lot of improvements. The basketball court has been covered. A new administration building has been put up right next to the old one. And next to this is the Senior Citizen's Multi-Purpose Hall. All these are on the northern side of the Central Park.
On the southwestern side, the Parish church had it share of improvements. Sadly, the skating rink is no longer usable. And the children's playground is no longer there.

But going back on the bright side, part of the open space has been transformed into a more lush green space with fairly tall trees and with varied shrubbery. In probably a few more years, the area around the old skating rink will probably resemble a mini-forest. There is still a clearing maintained right behind the water reservoir tank that can accomodate activities like soccer or football, kite flying or just about any children's games that need a lot of running around.

I hope to see more of the people here in BF Homes take advantage of the Central Park. I sure would not like seeing this potentially beautiful amenity of the community being taken up by more and more covered facilities in the future.