For Star subscribers: The new Pima Community College board inherited tough choices from the old board, which splurged on historic motor-courts. PCC should try to preserve them, maybe by selling them for housing.
Tim Steller Go up and down Tucson's old tourist strip, and you'll catch intriguing glimpses of the city's past.
But from Benson Highway in South Tucson to North Oracle Road and Miracle Mile in Tucson, the simplest solution for saving these decaying old icons is to bring them up to code and use them as bottom-rung housing. And that's not what Pima Community College is looking at, which makes preserving them expensive.
'Lowest level of the housing food chain'This is nothing like what's going on in South Tucson. There, Casa Maria, the longstanding charity with a soup kitchen on E. 25th Street, bought a motor court called El Camino Motel, at 297 E. Benson Highway, in March. One of their key ideas is to minimize the displacement of existing residents that happens when outsiders come in and redevelop properties to rent to higher-income tenants.
Ghost Ranch Lodge on West Miracle Mile became low-income housing for seniors and disabled people, thanks to a hard-fought efforts to assemble federal, state and local grants and tax credits. "We are adding kitchenettes," he said of the Amazon."There’s an alcove in those units that is plumbed and perfectly set up."Preservation should be priorityThe Pima Community College motels are in two special districts of Tucson. "Thrive in the '05" is a multifaceted effort to improve life in the 85705 zip code. The Miracle Mile Historic District joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2017, thanks to Clinco's nomination.
Theresa Riel, the current board chair, beat Clinco by 60 percent to 38 percent in the November 2022 election despite a big-money campaign in Clinco's favor. She's earned some deference to her position. Greg Taylor also won his seat in November, and Wade McLean was appointed in January.
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