South Phoenix community organizers say they want better connectivity to jobs, green spaces and education.
The Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area, which sits alongside light-rail construction at Central and Watkins avenues, was a tranquil foil to the rustling of cars and construction trucks rushing by.
“Having clean, safe and accessible green spaces for our urban communities is a necessity,” said Genaro Ruiz, center director at the Rio Salado Audubon Center. “We don’t have a lot of green spaces in south Phoenix. What we can do to enhance this area – the ideas are limitless.”One of the plans community leaders want to kickstart again is the Rio Reimagined, a plan previously helmed by the late Sen.
“If you go back and look at the plans, it was to connect people to the river. Not just for visitors, but for people who call this place home,” Vidales said. “These are opportunities you only get once in a lifetime, and if we let it get taken away and not get the city of Phoenix to secure that land and build world-class infrastructure, we won’t get another chance.”
Juana Silva, an organizer with Unlimited Potential, said she works with 200 mothers every day, many of whom are seeking an affordable place to rent because they have nowhere to go and they don’t feel their needs for affordability are being heard. “That broken promise never actually happened,” Vidales said. “The city needs to incentivize developers to house the people who are already here. If we can secure them first, we can start to bring in the kinds of developments we want.”At the corner of the mobile home park along Central Avenue, the second south Phoenix stop of the tour, there lay dozens of plastic soda bottles, a seemingly abandoned dollhouse accented with a red-violet roof while an American flag flapped gently in the breeze.
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