Greenspace

The Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association and the Old Seminole Heights Preservation Consortium teamed up with Hillsborough High School and the City of Tampa Parks & Recreation Department to plant 16 oak trees along Central avenue in front of the school.  The two neighborhood organizations purchased 10 of the trees and the City has brought in another 6 to complete the project.

We are working to create a multi-organization unified effort toward a trail system that will create continuous paths and safely connect our valued green spaces.  This network of trails will also have many encounters with the Hillsborough River and our natural springs. We want to create new tree canopies and are looking to make our trails as safe and inviting as they can be as they traverse our beautiful central core. Following the outstanding example of South Tampa, as they have identified their ambitious greenway aspirations, it is now our time to step up to the plate.

These shots were taken Sunday afternoon on 12th Ave. from Sligh southward on the east side of the street down to the end of McDugald Field by Greenspace committee chair Myron Griffin.

The committee has been working on getting a sidewalk connector from SESH up 12th street to Patterson Park on the Hilsborough River.  The City gave us bad news this year that we were removed from the budget but would be given consideration for the 2011 budget.  Imagine our surprise when we noticed concrete forms on 12th avenue at MacDugal park. 

Myron Griffin, Greenspace chair, was interviewed yesterday on Bay News 9 regarding his committee's Seminole Heights Trail project.  The interview takes place in Southeast Seminole Heights (SESH) where that association has worked with the city to install a sidewalk up 12th street from MLK to Hillsborough.  Myron's vision takes that single stretch of sidewalk in SESH and expands it into a network of sidewalks linking all of Seminole Heights--our shops, parks, the lake, the river, and each other.  All three neighborhood associations--Southeast, South, and Old Seminole Heights have written letters of support for this vision.

OSHNA's Greenspace committee chair Myron Griffin showed up in the Tampa Tribune advocating for the Seminole Heights Trail project.  A small piece of the article quoting Myron: