Grand Prix Park at Frasers Property Australia’s Berwick Waters community got a big thumbs up from families at a special launch event on Saturday, 6 October.
Hundreds of residents, including youngsters on bikes, trikes and scooters turned out for the event, enjoying their first blast around the park’s Grand Prix inspired bike track, playground and picnic facilities in perfect weather.
Hungry crowds were kept well fed with food trucks and a sausage sizzle courtesy of the Berwick Scouts while children stayed entertained with a jumping castle and face painting station.
Frasers Property Australia residential Victoria general manager Sarah Bloom said the day was a great success.
“Creating an outdoor space that would really capture children’s imagination and encourage them to get outdoors and be active was one of the aims of Grand Prix Park so it was encouraging to see so many children enjoying the track,” she said.
“The sunshine certainly helped make the day a real family-centred celebration.”
The park has been built in the community’s College Green precinct and is open to Berwick Waters’ residents and the wider area, with a variety of play and leisure spaces for children and adults.
The track weaves through different ‘experiences’, from a race through the ‘Black Forest’ zone based on the famous Hockenheim F1 track in Germany’s Rhine Valley, to a snake run zooming down the grassy hills in the northern reaches, and adrenaline-pumping dips across the start/finish line.
The sprawling park also features a communal space for BBQs and picnics, grassy slopes overlooking the track, informal nature trails through existing trees and sensory plants, pedestrian paths and grassed kick-about spaces.
