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By Adonis Dees
Cronkite News

PHOENIX— Children from throughout central Phoenix gathered Thursday to celebrate the renovation of Eastlake Community Center.

The Phoenix Suns partnered with Southwest Airlines for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the facility’s learning center. Southwest contributed $20,000 to the project.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, along with former and current Suns players, including forward Alan Williams who grew up using Eastlake Park, attended the ceremony. Stanton spoke about the history of the community center and park, which have been the site of marches and celebrations dating to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, and a place for youth to learn and play.

Stanton called the Eastlake Community Center at the park “the most legendary and historical place in the city of Phoenix.”

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