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Monday, March 7, 2022

Alex's Little Free Library

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Little Free Libraries tend to be as creative as some mailboxes . David Aber photographed this one on January 8, 2020: We thought that a st...
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Monday, February 7, 2022

2419 North Orchard Avenue: Spacey Little Free Libraries

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Little Free Libraries tend to be creative places built by creative people. But this one (actually two ), which David Aber found on August 2...
Monday, March 1, 2021

Hoffman Mini Park

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In case you're new to Tucson, it's divided into neighborhoods — each with its own neighborhood association. Some of them are more ac...
Monday, February 1, 2021

La Capilla Neighborhood Garden

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This little spot is two blocks west of 6th Avenue, just off the El Paso & Southern Greenway (a bike/pedestrian path that's under c...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

A pandemic idea: Restaurant parklets

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Here's a #ThisIsTucson article, from the Arizona Daily Star: A solution for Tucson restaurants during coronavirus — create a "str...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Favorite Places: Tucson’s Back Alleys

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This isn't about a specific place. It's not about parklets… although they are often cooler than the streets around them and can be i...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Picnic and playground with A view

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In the Barrio Kroeger Lane Neighborhood Association is this wonderful little parklet called Verdugo Park. Just across the Santa Cruz is “A” ...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Munch with a Boneyard view

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If you'd like to have lunch with a view of the Airplane Boneyard, this parklet (a ramada with two picnic tables, a bike rack and a drin...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Park 'n' Park(let)

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Just down the street from our previous parklet (at 86 E. Alameda) is the Public Works parking garage. Nestled in a narrow patio between it ...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Two benches, two trees, and a mural

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On the north side of downtown, a new public art installation along Alameda Street has two benches with a not-too-small shade tree in front ...
Monday, October 7, 2019

Colossal chairs

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There's a very shady spot near the northwest corner of the University of Arizona Campus. It's a tree-covered parklet in front of t...
Monday, July 1, 2019

Benches, some shade, and a streetlight

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This parklet is about as basic as they come: three benches surrounded by five fairly young palo verde trees with a lone streetlight overhe...
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...