In the months following our community vote, The CPEC committee has been working on a report with The City of Phoenix Parks Department staff summarizing the community outreach, feedback and conceptual design evolution that has occurred on the project since it was last presented to the Parks Board of Directors more than a year ago. The information included in the report was formally presented to the Parks Board on June 27th and the project received unanimous approval. The Parks Board and City Management were highly complimentary of the Desert Ridge Community initiative; we should all be thankful to live in an Association that is able to make such a positive contribution to the community.
The Desert Ridge Community Association Board of Directors approved funds at the June Board meeting to engage Burch & Cracchiolo and the McGough Group to finalize the Development Agreement and Construction Drawings respectively, as recommended by this Committee. Burch & Cracchiolo is a firm that has extensive experience with development agreements in the City of Phoenix and the McGough Group has been the Landscape Architect selected to develop the conceptual plan and final construction drawings at the outset of the project more than a year ago.
We look forward to finalizing the agreement and plans and starting construction in the next few months. The Committee remains hopeful that the project can be completed by the late fall. A more definitive schedule will be provided once construction begins.
Greg Abrams
Chair
Cashman Park Exploratory Committee
