“I was just here, putting my stuff up and several people came over, police officers, and they gave me an eviction notice,” said Esteban Diaz, among dozens of homeless Centennial Park campers given 15 days to leave by police after the campground's closure.
An Anchorage Police officer writes an eviction notice for a homeless camper at Centennial Campground.
The paper Diaz was given was originally a 10-day notice to leave, but officers crossed out the 10 and wrote in a 15. The notice was dated Oct. 4. Campers across the site were given similar forms. Camp abatement notices were also stapled onto many trees in the campground. A few campsites down, fellow camper Jeffery Butler said he knew for most of September that the camp was going to close, but he wasn’t sure what alternative there would be.
Jeffery Butler says he doesn’t plan on going to the Sullivan Arena once Centennial Campground officially closes. Butler isn’t the only camper who doesn’t plan on going to the Sullivan. Eric Anderson says he’d been camping at Centennial for about a month before the Sullivan closed. “I can’t take it out,” Anderson said. “If I do, I have to park ‘em out on the street which leaves it subject to being towed, which they’ve told us throughout the summer, ‘If you park them out there, we might tow them. We’re not going to tell you for sure.’”
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