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As you may, or may not be aware, I have been working hard to make Heroes Park Lake a reality. I am pleased to share this first rendering of Heroes Park Lake to be located on the east side of 83rd Avenue just north of Bethany Home Road at Heroes Regional Park. This rendering shows the position and size of the lake (approximately 5 acres) but it does not show ‘the bells and whistles’ that will be incorporated. Since it will be a fishing lake there will be a few fishing piers, a 20’ foot fountain, several shade structures, benches and the planting of larger trees (none of which is depicted in this rendering).
I am so excited and pleased to be able to finally announce that this lake is definitely coming to the park and soon. There are a lot of moving parts that complicated this project including coordination with Salt River Project. Final details on the amenities are still to be determined and finalized. The latest schedule is that work will begin in the first quarter of this coming year, around this coming March or April.
I thank all city personnel that will make this project a reality. If I omit some names, please accept my apology. Thanks to City Manager Kevin Phelps, Assistant City Mangers Jack Friedline (technical) and Vicki Rios (financing), Don Bessler, Special Projects Engineering and Trevor Ebersole, Director of Transportation and Streets (includes engineering). Many more were involved. My thanks also goes to the entire City Council. Without their approval this project would never have occurred. I appreciate their recognition of and commitment to fulfilling the city’s promise to complete Heroes Park. My thanks to every Yucca district resident for your patience. You have had to wait over 20 years to see this park completed. I believe the lake is just the beginning of the road to placing all elements within this park.
© Joyce Clark, 2020
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That will be a nice addition to a project which has been delayed for way too long. When we purchased our home 22 years ago we were told that the park would be fully developed including a recreation center. To date the improvements have been mostly the addition of the new library which doesn’t seem to draw many visitors and an annoying skate board facility which attracts a lot of rude teenagers who litter the area with their trash and vandalize the facilities. Can you tell me if the rec center will ever actually be built? Maybe some day if the city stops spending so much of it’s resources on Westgate and spending millions of dollars on baseball fields located in the city of Phoenix?
Robert, the Rec Center, library expansion and sports fields will be built.
Splendid. Good to know.
Congratulations Councilman Clark You have worked a long time for this project. Thank you!
Congratulations
Your constituents and the City of Glendale are fortunate to have such a hard working, tenacious council person. You don’t give up! Great Job!!!
Thanks Joyce! I know you have worked tirelessly for many years to make this happen. It’s going to be a great addition and a fun place to enjoy!
Thanks Joyce,Mayor and Council for all your efforts to get the lake in. Right now the brown weeds is a fire ready to happen anytime and is ugly. Has anyone ever asked the cardinals or diamondbacks if they would like to donate a ballfield or two? Also maybe a Go Fund to raise money from the community.
My neighbors and I will be so happy when you have the groundbreaking ceremony.
I would love to see our tax money go toward cleaning up dilapidated areas, helping the homeless, street repairs, assisting families with food…maybe helping with the drug and homeless issues at the lake that already exists just a few miles down the road! This is not a prudent use of funds when so much of our city is so run down.
That’s fine but we have been promised a complete rec center at Heroes Park for the past 22 years and this area of Glendale has been treated like the bastard stepchild for that entire time. At least the lake is a start to completing some amenities. Yes, street repair is essential along with the other infrastructure issues, but it is not the job of the taxpayers to rebuild the dilapidated areas and feed, house, and clothe everyone. There are numerous non-profit organizations who are engaged in those efforts and which do a far better job than government agencies where the money usually gets doled out to contractors who are well connected cronies of elected officials. And, you’re never going to fix the drug and homeless issues until there has been a complete makeover of our mental health system including reopening care facilities with the ability to forcibly commit and treat patients rather than handing them a bottle of pills and pushing them out the door. Without that, you’re pouring money down a rat hole. If you really want to complain about the waste of tax dollars maybe you should start with the $50,000,000.00 that was spent to build ballparks in the city of Phoenix. And maybe all the money which has been spent on developing Westgate and trying to please the worthless Coyotes who keep clamoring for a newer and better facility while refusing to enter in to and honor a long term agreement.
1. I don’t pay taxes in Phoenix, I pay taxes in Glendale, so I should have a say regarding the spending of that money. 2. Creating this lake without dealing with these issues is simply creating a new lake for the homeless and drug addicts like the people who basically reside at Chicken Park (as I has been known my entire life) at 59th and Bethany a new, larger area to take over. 3. Once the school at 75th and Bethany is closed next year and the Systems of Care facility is opened for the homeless and indigent, the influx is going to increase in the area and the money spent here will likely not be as well spent as we would like. Just because something has been planned for a long time does not make it a wise, nor prudent, idea.