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Paseo Highlands Park and Goelet A. Beuf Community Center Opens

On July 12, the city of Phoenix will celebrate the grand opening of Paseo Highlands Park. Located on the southeast corner of 35th Avenue and Pinnacle Peak Road, the park will cover 40 acres and have a 48,000-square-foot community center.

At my request, the Planning Commission initiated the zoning case which allocated 40 acres of land acquired from Maricopa County Flood Control, for a regional park. Using this process, we received $2 million worth of land for free.

The park will feature two lighted softball fields, one lighted soccer field, two lighted basketball courts, two lighted volleyball courts, a tot playground and bigger children’s playground, picnic and open space areas. The community center will offer a gymnasium, indoor running track, weight room, large multipurpose room, classrooms with computers, conference rooms and an exercise/dance room. This park will be the first community based policing center to be designed into the next generation of community centers.

The community center will be named in honor of Phoenix Police Officer Goelet Beuf, who was killed in the line of duty in 1999. Officer Beuf had been responding to a call about suspicious activity near 24th Avenue and Lone Cactus Road. He stopped to speak to a man who immediately started running. Officer Beuf caught the suspect, where a struggle at the side of the road ended in the two men falling into the path of an
18-wheeler.

There will be a special presentation in honor of Officer Beuf at the grand opening event. Please join me for the grand opening of Paseo Highlands Park, 9 a.m. July 12. Members of my staff as well as representatives of other city departments will be on hand to give tours and answer questions. For more information or questions, feel free to contact my office at 602-262-7444 or e-mail us at CDIST1@phoenix.gov.