Friday, UrbanTech and the Guadalupe-Parkway Sommerville Centers announced a partnership while also showing the new developments for the center.
“It’s a place where students learn about best practices in urban design, and then they share what they have learned at the First Friday Art Trails,” David Driskill with UrbanTech said about the program at Texas Tech.
Also in attendance were leaders with the Guadalupe-Parkway Sommerville Centers.
The organization is 53 years old, and primarily works with families in the Guadalupe and Parkway neighborhoods in Lubbock.
“We’ll be 54 this year, and we’ve come a long way in those 54 years, and I can hardly wait to see what happens in the next 50 years as our children grow up, they’re empowered and they know what they want to be when they grow up, and we equip them for that, and we know they’re going to go and do wonderful things,” Executive Director at the Guadalupe-Parkway Sommerville Centers Dela Esqueda said.
“To a lot of people it seems like ‘Okay, everybody has a playground’, but that’s really not the case in East Lubbock,” Board Member Lyle Scovell said. “Right now, there is really not a playground that’s safe that offers the type of experience that these kids deserve.”
