Caren Jones, supertintendent of Gary parks departmet, talks with Steve Konters (center) and Joel Baldin, both of Hitchcock Design, in picnic pavillion at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson (center) talks with Eric Reaves, president of the Miller Citizens Corporation, (left) and Speros Batistatos, president/CEO of the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority, at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson (center right) is joined by other officials and Gary resident constrution workers at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson (center) talks with Eric Reaves, president of the Miller Citizens Corporation, (left) and Speros Batistatos, president/CEO of the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority, at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Lake Michigan provides the background and the picnic pavilion frames people gathered at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. The parking lot will be redesigned and expanded, while the picnic pavilion will have restrooms added. This summer the Gary Airshow will be located in this parking lot. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson greets Leigh Morris of the RDA (center) as they are joined by construction workers who are Gary residents at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson (center right) is joined by other officials and Gary resident constrution workers at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Caren Jones, supertintendent of Gary parks departmet, talks with Steve Konters (center) and Joel Baldin, both of Hitchcock Design, in picnic pavillion at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Leigh Morris of the RDA (center) speaks and is joined by Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson and construction workers who are Gary residents at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson speaks at the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Officials gather for the Marquette Park Project Phase 3 groundbreaking in the Miller section of Gary, Indiana Tuesday April 3, 2012. The parking lot will be redesigned and expanded to connect to the Auquatorium (background). | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media