Local Police Join Residents to Spruce Up Entry
Residents at Rural Neighborhoods’ Everglades Village in Homestead and Miami-Dade Police Department officers were busy dressing up the entrance to the 511-unit rental community with new plants and signage recently. Director of Property Management, Michael Botelho, remarked “by the end of the day all agreed we planted as much trust in each other as the numbers of trees and shrubs. It was great to begin to bridge the sometimes real, sometimes imagined gaps between new immigrants and patrol officers.” A total of 25 residents, staff and county officers took part in the project resulting in new entry signage, added shrubs and mulch, and newly painted entrance fencing.
