For the past few months, staff of Rural Neighborhoods has been meeting with local residents to get their input on needed improvements in the Eden Park-Esperanza Place (EP2) area. To date, over 40 residents have participated and one group is already seeing results. At their September meeting, residents at Eden Gardens expressed a desire to…
Rural Neighborhoods was awarded $250,000 by NeighborWorks America to help create a resident-driven neighborhood revitalization plan in the Eden Park-Esperanza Place neighborhood in Immokalee, Florida. Reversing Immokalee neighborhood decline has been a goal for decades. But despite improvements like the new Zocolo at First Street and the lighting and pedestrian changes on Main Street, revitalization…
Over 50 parents and children joined Rural Neighborhoods as it kicked off its Eden Park-Esperanza Place neighborhood revitalization initiative in Immokalee with a festival on Saturday, June 13, 2015. The festival, titled “Music, Murals and Arts”, included the installation of a cultural mural painted by Miami-based artist Carlos Salgado at the Carl J. Kuehner Community…
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