The Compound, also known as Street Patterns or The Grid, is an area in southwestern Palm Bay, Florida, similar to Flagler Estates. It is largely undeveloped area of some 200 miles (320 km) of paved road. General Development Corporation began development of the area in the 1980s, but went bankrupt in 1991: afterwards, few residents ever moved in, and the streets fell into serious disrepair by the early-2000s.
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The Compound is located at . The area of The Compound is 12.2 square miles (32 km2). To the west is the St. Johns River and Three Forks Marsh, To the southeast is Deer Run, To the east is Bayside Lakes, and to the north is Palm Bay Regional Park. The average elevation is 10 feet (3.0 m) above sea level. Most areas have not since been repaved.
A section of Palm Bay is also home to the first city-run paintball park known as Hurricane Paintball Park. Discharge of a paintball gun is illegal within the city of Palm Bay, except at a municipal paintball field. In response to complaints of illegal paintball games within the compound, the Palm Bay City Council ordered the Palm Bay Department of Parks and Recreation to develop a city paintball park as a safe, legal and affordable place to play paintball within the city.
Initially constructed with city funds, materials donated by local businesses and volunteer labor provided local paintball players, the park has suffered several closures due to management issues, allegations of wrong-doing by contractors and budget issues.
Although still used for paintball and listed as a city park, Hurricane Paintball is no longer a city-run paintball park. Hurricane Paintball is now a section of city-owned land leased to a commercial paintball field operator that runs additional locations in Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce, Invincibles Paintball [1]. The cost for members of the community to use the park is comparable to that of other commercial paintball fields in the area.