By Wayne Schutsky | Scottsdale Progress
As Scottsdale resident Arthur Deal walks along a perimeter construction fence cutting through Papago Park, he shows off a picture of his grandfather on horse back on the same land in 1898.
Deal, who lives near the park, has been coming to Papago for 65 years – and now he is fighting to preserve it.
Deal and Tempe resident Lasse Norgaard-Larsen have taken the cities of Phoenix and Scottsdale to court over a new San Francisco Giants training facility in Papago Park, the mountainous public space that straddles the border of Phoenix, Tempe and southern Scottsdale.
