The Beacon Hill Area Neighborhood Association Gets a New Park

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Sometimes it takes patience and perseverance for improvements to come to one’s neighborhood. After waiting for 25 years, residents living in the Beacon Hill Neighborhood Area finally got the park they wanted. Although phase I has been completed residents look forward to seeing the second phase of park development begin. Phase II of The Beacon Hill Linear Park is scheduled to begin construction in late 2013, thanks largely in part to the efforts of City Councilman Diego Bernal, who secured funds for phase II through the city’s 2012-2017 bond fund.

Community leaders spoke at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of Phase I of the Beacon Hill Linear Park. John Karlis, Vice President of the Beacon Hill Area Neighborhood Association, spoke of the park’s community garden and Cosima Colvin board member for the Neighborhood Association mentioned that residents now had green space within a quarter-mile area. Former City Council woman for district 1, Mary Alice Cisneros, said that Beacon Hill was “truly a grassroots community,” and spoke of how the project was 25 years in the making.

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