College students from Bowdoin College in Maine had fun throwing a Spring Break Party for children of the Reserves at Eden Gardens Complex operated by Rural Neighborhoods. The Bowdoin students were visiting Immokalee for an alternative Spring Break in which they do volunteer work for local non-profit groups. After planting shrubs and helping clean the…
Fashion designer Gwendolyn Gleason is teaching Immokalee residents to sew. Each Tuesday afternoon, a group of women, some of whom have never sewed before, attend her class to develop their sewing skills. Many women use the skills to make or repair clothes for their families, while others already sew for friends and are seeking ways…
Fordham University students partnered with Rural Neighborhoods to help an Immokalee resident with some much-needed yard work. The nine students spent four hours trimming bushes and spreading dirt to level her yard and make it safer for walking. They also helped remove old fence posts and install supports for a new fence to help keep…
In early October, BankUnited presented Rural Neighborhoods with a check to support its work in Immokalee. Specifically, the donation will help preserve and create affordable housing units in this rural community. Currently, Rural Neighborhoods has 18 new units under construction in Immokalee and is in the process of acquiring 75 existing units that will undergo…
Rural Neighborhoods recently announced its planned $4.85M acquisition and rehabilitation of the Timber Ridge and Sanders Pines apartment complexes as one component of its multi-faceted revitalization effort in the Eden Park-Esperanza Place neighborhood of Immokalee, Florida. Rural Neighborhoods’ goal is to preserve and improve local workforce housing. Even as Timber Ridge and Sanders Pines age,…
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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