Palo Verde Library / Maryvale Community Center

View from 51st avenue with corner of Maryvale Park preserved.

Project details

• Project Name: Palo Verde Library / Maryvale Community Center
• Client: City of Phoenix
• Project Type: Library / Institutional
• Principal Designer/s: Wendell Burnette, Jay Silverberg
• Design Team: Project Manager - Ron Garen / Project Architect - Patrick Magness / Design Team - Janell Bass, Shawn Croissant, Jennifer Little, Jose Pombo, Scott Roeder, Matthew Trzebiatowski
• Contractor/s: Smith Construction
• Date of commencement of project: 2001
• Date of completion of project: January 2006
• Location of site: Phoenix, Arizona
• Built-up Area: 45,000 sq. ft
• Cost of Construction/Execution: $5.05 Million

Words from the architect

The City of Phoenix proposed to re-invigorate the "heart of Maryvale" with an innovative mixed-use building program that required a single building complex; a larger Library / Community Center, 16,000 & 27,000 square feet respectively; that incorporated the existing public pool.

Maintaining the recreational park guided the site design and building layout. A parking variance and an intergovernmental agreement with the schools to the south, saved the large ball field.

The explicit intent of the design was to be environmentally responsible, and for the Public Park and its environs to remain the "green" heart of Maryvale.

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