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Monday, June 3, 2019

Park yourself on Park

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Down at the end of Park Avenue, south of the Lost Barrio and a couple of blocks before Park dead-ends at Aviation Bikeway/Highway, is this l...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Prospective Pocket Park near Grant & Country Club

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Back on February 18th, I saw the KGUN 9 TV story Midtown neighborhood association aims to keep vagrants out of nearby parklet . The neighbor...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Parklet patios and art-filled walls at TMC

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Where can you find 10 or 20 parklets within a couple hundred feet of each other? That would be the main hospital building at Tucson Medical ...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Eastside City Hall Outdoor Enhancement

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Not far from the previous parket , this “outdoor enhancement” to people in Tucson city government (as it's named on a plaque) is a “park...
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Monday, May 7, 2018

Pantano Wash and Home Depot

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I don't think this parklet has a name or an address. It's at the northwest corner of the parking lot for the Home Depot store on Br...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Rosendo S. Perez Parklet

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This pocket park may look familiar. It's on the south side of the former La Pilita Museum, just down the street from The El Tiradito Shr...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Brandi Fenton Memorial Park

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Brandi Fenton passed away in March, 2003, at age 13. (Click there to read her obituary from the Arizona Daily Star.) Now a big park with sp...
Monday, February 5, 2018

Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Park

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Here's a small(ish) park where you can celebrate 2018 without — Tucsonans hope — any more senseless gun violence. Before he sent me thes...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Pas de deux (someday, pas de trois?)

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The right edge of the photo above, at the corner of 4th Avenue and Stevens Avenue, shows two sculptures on pedestals. (The empty third pede...
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Monday, October 2, 2017

Christopher Franklin Carroll Centennial Park

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This place, squeezed between a street and a parking lot, has been a long time in the making. (Our February 20, 2015 article Coming soon, we ...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Keeling Desert Park(let)

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If you aren't looking north as you drive along this part of Glenn (just east of Stone), you probably won't notice this beautiful new...
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Monday, July 3, 2017

Shady and artistic spot in Dunbar/Spring

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How about exploring for some fun and funky art this Fourth of July? One of the best places in Tucson to find impromptu art is the Dunbar/Spr...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Pitch a horseshoe in this pocket park

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In a way, Reid Park is a collecton of Pocket Parks connected by lawns and trees. Here's one: Tucson Horseshoe Pitchers' Club: Th...
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Monday, April 3, 2017

PVNA's Pocket Park being developed

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The Palo Verde Neighborhood Association (from Speedway to Grant and Country Club to Alvernon) has a pocket park next to a Tucson Water well....
Monday, March 6, 2017

San Antonio Park

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More or less centered between Aviation Highway to the south and west, Kino Parkway to the east, and Broadway to the north, is this little ge...