OPINION: 'These symbolic gestures will hopefully aid in healing generational wounds and inequity that La Calle’s destruction initiated,' writes Alisha Vasquez, co-director of the Mexican American Heritage and History Museum.
Now that the sale of the Sosa-Carrillo House has been approved, an important piece of local history is going to be preserved.
The home will be sold for $1.05 million; AHS will receive $100,000. The remaining funds will go toward the restoration of the home, estimated at $1.28 million. After Rio Nuevo sunsets in 2035, SCH will return to AHS. When AHS Executive Director, Dr. David Breeckner approached the tenants, Borderlands Theater and Los Descendientes de Tucson, with the possibility of a sale, he came into a situation where the SCH needed over $1 million in TLC. He understood Arizona’s fiscal realities, and served as a wonderful liaison between Rio Nuevo, Borderlands Theater, and Los Descendientes.
“Los Descendientes will continue to reactivate the TCC area by creating a welcoming and equitable space in the SCH for the Mexican [Americans] and other minorities who were forcibly removed 60 years ago,” Board President Rikki Riojas said. “Through partnerships and community outreach, we will use the remodel to ensure greater access to the histories of the barrio, the way it should have always been.
Borderlands Theater is encouraged by the investment in culture, history, and community that this sale and the extensive and much needed improvements that come with it represent. Mayor Romero surprised the audience at the SCH by officially apologizing on behalf of the City of Tucson to the people displaced from 1960s Urban Renewal.
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