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CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MAP OF 54 SIGN LOCATIONS AND WHO SPONSORED EACH CORNER
WE DID IT!

THANK YOU TO ALL THE BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS WHOSE GENEROUS DONATIONS MADE THE NEIGHBORHOOD IDENTIFICATION SIGNS POSSIBLE.  CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE BUSINESS PAGE AND SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES WHO HAVE SUPPORTED GARDEN DISTRICT.
Alvernon/Hampton Place - Kathy and Rick Mangen
 
Alvernon/Justin - Hector Reyes and Rob Groves

Alvernon/Desmond - Perry Birland, Michele Worthington, Jeff & Jamie Swanson, Chris Stemple, and Barbara Gardner
 
Alvernon/Louis - Elise Hesser and Jessie Toles
 
Alvernon/Lee - Dairy Queen
 
Alvernon/Fairmount - Dairy Queen
 
Alvernon/Mabel - Marion McDaniel Masonic Lodge #56
 
Alvernon/Bellevue - Feast, Doug Levy
 
Speedway/Sycamore - Barbara Lehmann
 
Speedway/Bryant -Tucson Appliance Company
 
Speedway/Catalina - Midtown Mercantile Merchants
 
Speedway/Belvedere - Midtown Mercantile Merchants
 
Speedway/Venice - CODAC: Health, Recovery, Wellness
 
Swan/Bellevue - Zayna Mediterranean Restaurant
 
Swan/Fairmount - Tellurian Eco-Design Stephen Monroe
 
Swan/Lee - Linda Dols and Angela Soto
 
Swan/Linden - Brad Holland, president emeritus Garden District Neighborhood Association
 
Swan/Duncan - Brad Holland, president emeritus Garden District Neighborhood Association
 
Swan/North - Brad Holland, president emeritus Garden District Neighborhood Association
 
Grant/Venice Place - Kate Price
 
Grant/Madelyn Circle - Connie and John Grinnell
 
Grant/Belvedere -Arte de la Vida, James Goodreau and Kevin Pawlak
 
Grant/Ralph SE - in honor of my mom, Kathleen Colburn, Love, Z.
 
Grant/Catalina Ave - Lexus of Tucson Speedway

Grant/Walnut - Heide and Nick Foy
 
Columbus/North St. - Kha Dang, co-founder of Garden District Neighborhood Association
 
Columbus/Edison - in honor of Hensley Bauer-Hiser
Columbus/Seneca E- Cindy Champagne and William Hack

Columbus/Seneca W - Bryan Crow
 
Columbus/Waverly - in loving memory of our grandparents, Zarala and Rogan

Columbus/Linden - Mildred & Dildred Toy Store

Columbus/Linden SW - William Fatout
 
Columbus/Lester E - The Von Isser Family
 
Columbus/Lester Carol Knowles
 
Columbus/Lee E - Ann and Jack Forsberg
 
Columbus/Lee W - Susan Wenberg
 
Columbus/Fairmount E Gretchen Brianna Field in loving memory of her dear friend, Dee Redfield
 
Columbus/Fairmount W - Yume Gardens
 
Columbus/Bellevue E Catalina Country Studio Apartments - Kelly and Jeanmarie McGinnis
 
Columbus/Bellevue - Kristen Birner and Colette Barajas
 
Pima/Sycamore - VG Beauty Lounge, Victoria Gonzalez and Gary Jack
 
Pima/Village - Caroline Rondeau, Manny Aldaz and Jenny and Lily Pate
 
Pima/Louis - Garden Short Term Rentals, Craig and Connie Wilson
 
Pima/Louis Elise Hesser and Jessie Toles
 
Pima/Desmond - Deborah and Jack Bicksler
 
Pima/Justin - Pima Valley Realty
 
Pima/Justin S - Net Zero Solar, Terry and Jim Washburn
 
Pima/Bryant - Susan Wenberg
 
Pima/Jerrie- Judy and Rocky, Janice, Kathleen, and the New and Niska families
 
Pima/Catalina N - Ida Plotkin, president emeritus Garden District Neighborhood Association
 
Pima/Catalina S - Wynne and Dave, Alyce and Donald, Marge, Eve and Charlie
 
Pima/Belvedere - Cash Concrete, Howard Swenson
 
Pima/Belvedere S - In memory of Tobi
 
Pima/Venice S - Tucson Botanical Gardens by Anna Marie Patti, VP, President, and Treasurer emeritus of Garden District Neighborhood Association
Garden District Neighborhood Association (GDNA) is working to beautify the “public face” of our neighborhood. The neighborhood identification sign pictured above advertise our identity as a safe, accessible, and attractive neighborhood to do business in and to call home.
 
Our goal is to install the beautiful Neighborhood Identification Sign pictured above on existing street name poles at 54 entry point corners to our residential streets.  The durable screen-printed signs will be installed at the entrances to the residential streets off of Grant, Speedway, Swan, Alvernon, Pima and Columbus.  According to City regulations, signs cannot be placed at major intersections, nor in the interior of the neighborhood. 
 
Signs must be installed in pairs on each side of the pole that supports the street name signs on residential streets at entrances to the neighborhood.  One pair of ID signs cost $150 to be fabricated and installed on each corner.  A map of sign locations can be found at thegardendistrict.org

WE DID IT!

All 54 entrances to our neighborhood will have signage to announce to Tucson that Garden District is a safe, accessible, attractive place to do business in and call home. Our pride in Garden District will be on display to the thousands of Tucsonans who pass by daily.

An update is in order on the printing of the signs themselves. The contract with Cook & Co was signed and a down payment paid in late October. Cook & Co indicated it would be at least a month to complete fabrication.  We hope the signs will be finished by the end of March, 2022.

When the fabrication is complete, the signs will go to the City of Tucson's Dept. of Transportation and Mobility's Sign Shop and we will be at the mercy of their schedule. The City will allow only their own Sign Shop to install neighborhood identification signs on the existing poles with street names. The City will charge us $50 per pair to install. 48 of the sign pairs will be installed as soon as the Sign Shop can schedule them. The six corners on Grant Rd, though, will not be put up yet. We will wait for Grant to be widened and construction completed before we request that our signs be hung on those street name poles.

This project has been literally YEARS in the making, including soliciting ideas and creating designs, completing surveys, interviewing artists, choosing the printer, going back to the drawing board, choosing a different printer . . . you get the idea. We wanted to make the signs affordable for sponsorship by residents and businesses, so we requested donations only for the cost of fabrication, $150 per pair. We set aside $2700 of the treasury budget for the installation costs of $50 per pair for 54 pairs. We also received a total of $900 from residents who made partial donations. We will use the funds from the partial donations to help cover the installation costs, so we do not need to dip as deep into the treasury.

Donations towards installation costs are still very much welcome and we will acknowledge you in the newsletter. You can find options for donating on the GDNA website: thegardendistrict.org. We are a registered non-profit, so donations are tax deductible.

Thank you to everyone who was so generous - full and partial sponsors, residents and businesses. Finally, we are on the home stretch!

 TO DONATE TOWARDS THE SIGNS:
  1. Contact the Garden District Neighborhood Association. PLEASE CLICK HERE.  Someone will contact you to discuss details and which street corner you would like.
  2. Pay through Paypal by clicking the DONATE button or mail a donation check made out to Garden District:
                        GDNA
                        c/o Lois Pawlak
                        P.O. Box 32384
                        Tucson, AZ 85751


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