Overview

Bremen's Sunnyside Park already draws thousands of visitors each year through events like the summer Firemen's Festival, Pickleball Tournaments, Fourth of July, and October Fest. The park's successes also create capacity challenges. Currently, the park's pickleball courts are beyond capacity, overlapping use between clubs, high school sports teams, and the public. The ability to support additional park usage, several more tournaments, 300-500 more club members, and more variety of concurrent uses, will all make the park more inclusive and improve quality of life. Indiana's four seasons also limit use of the park, with amenities mostly geared toward warmer months. The addition of firepits will create expanded use during colder months, enhancing already popular outdoor space. Additionally, new multilingual signage for the park will help make the community's growing Latinx and Hispanic population (over 25% according to recent census data) feel more welcome. READI funds and additional funds from the Town of Bremen, Bremen Park Department and the Pickleball club will be used to add the Pickleball courts, firepits, signage and new sidewalks to our growing park area. Anticipated start date for the project is May of 2023 and with completion in August of 2023.