Many of you have seen the small park on Willow Lane, adjacent to the Gateway Church.  It is on the church's land but outside their wall.  The 2004 zoning agreement between our neighborhood and the previous church requires that it be maintained and open for the enjoyment of the community.

Over the years, even before Gateway's purchase of the property, it had fallen into neglect.  Most of the landscaping had died.  The little pond became a stagnant breeding ground for mosquitoes.

Hillcrest Forest contacted Gateway in 2023 and asked that they restore the park, in accordance with their zoning.  Our association spent over two years, nudging them, and in May, 2026, they completed the new landscaping.  It's beautiful again.  There is even a fountain in the pond.  Gateway recreated the park as the Rosian Bagriansky Zerner Garden of Life, honoring Holocaust survivors, and also honoring the Turner and Bonner famlies, freed slaves who owned much of this farmland in the late 1800s and early 1900s.  Our street Turner Way is named for the Turners.