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Residents recall Barrio Viejo history and warn gentrification is changing downtown Tucson
Summary
Speakers in the meeting transcript described Barrio Viejo as a historically multiethnic neighborhood and warned that development and rising property values have altered its character, pointing to parking lots, lost markets and high-profile home sales.
A resident in the meeting transcript said Barrio Viejo in downtown Tucson was once a distinctly multiethnic neighborhood and warned that recent development and rising property values have changed its character.
The speaker said her paternal grandmother, Ata Gracia Otero, lived in the neighborhood in the early 1900s and that family members were born in Tucson’s Barrio Viejo. The speaker said her grandmother supported herself after her husband died by selling bootleg alcohol and was arrested; the family’s address was recorded in the neighborhood, the speaker said.
The comments placed the neighborhood’s change in a longer context. “Most Tucsonenses who have lived in Tucson for more…
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