Carver Tract sidewalk project to mark completion with ribbon cutting ceremony
Haleemon Anderson
CARVER TRACT (KESQ) – Riverside County Fourth District Supervisor Manuel Perez will host a ribbon cutting Saturday in the Carver Tract neighborhood, signaling the completion of the infrastructure project to pave sidewalks in the unincorporated community.
Supervisor Perez and the Riverside County Transportation Department invite the community to celebrate this milestone. A community celebration and cleanup are planned, with music, refreshments, light food and activities.
The ribbon-cutting will take place at noon at the intersection of Luzon Street and Corregidor Avenue. A street closure will begin at 5 a.m. through 5 p.m. at the intersection of Luzon Avenue and Lingayan Avenue.
Residents and volunteers will perform street by street clean-up at 8 a.m. the same day.
“This is historic and personal to me,” said Perez. “Carver Tract was home to my grandmother during my college years and, still to this day, home to my aunt and her family. I see this as a responsibility to have infrastructure that provides a better place to live, helping residents walk safely, for kids to get to school, to support healthy activity in the community, and to not have water flood the streets. The sidewalks are an improvement uplifting the whole community, improving the lives for individuals who deserve it and have deserved it for generations.”
With the final phase complete, Carver Tract will have sidewalks for the first time in the 80-year history of the neighborhood, which sits between Indio and Coachella.
The project was a longtime goal of Supervisor Perez, who worked with the county transportation department to get the project funded. Approximately $8.5 million was invested by the county in a two-phase project to install sidewalks along all the residential streets, as well as curbs, gutters and storm drains, giving water a place to go when it rains.
As part of the community clean-up on Saturday morning, Carver Tract residents will have the opportunity to leave bulky items at the curb by 6 a.m. for free disposal. At 8 a.m., residents and volunteers will work street by street cleaning up the community.