Marana breaks ground on Honea Heights Park
The Town of Marana broke ground on the new Honea Heights Park this week./Courtesy photo via
The town of Marana is developing a new community outdoor space in the form of the Honea Heights Neighborhood Park, scheduled to break ground this week.
The park includes a 2,000 square foot area with a 40-by-50-foot shade structure, as well as 2,500 square feet of turf, swings, a ramada and a half-court basketball court. It will be located at 12500 N. White Avenue, adjacent to the Santa Cruz River Loop Trail system and roughly a half-mile from Saint Christopher Catholic Church, where the property was originally planned to be built in 2017.
Previous plans for the park included a facility built through a $350,000 Community Development Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and an Urban Development and then pay the church $1 per year to lease 33 acres of land for 10 years. That site was scuttled after storm damage in conjunction with the church’s intent for future development on the property, according to Marana Communications Manager Vic Hathaway. The new park will cost $400,000 to build.
