A ceremony celebrating a roughly $8.5 million infrastructure project will take place Saturday in Carver Tract, an unincorporated community between Coachella and Indio.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held from noon through 3 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Luzon Street and Corregidor Avenue, with music, refreshments, light food and activities available. Residents and volunteers will perform street by street clean-up at 8 a.m. the same day.
The small, nearly 80-year-old community will celebrate the completed project of sidewalks along all residential streets, curbs, gutters and storm drains.
“The completion of the Carver Tract sidewalks represents more than just infrastructure; it’s a reflection of care, safety and dignity for this community,” Executive Director of Coachella Valley Rescue Mission Amanda Galindo said in a statement.
Riverside County Fourth District Supervisor V. Manuel Perez, who worked with the county’s Transportation Department on funding the project, said, “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.”
Perez has also focused on other improvements near the area, including safer routes for students, new crosswalks to walk to Martin Van Buren Elementary School in Indio and working with Coachella Valley Rescue Mission, officials said.
A street closure will take place from 5 a.m. through 5 p.m. at the intersection of Luzon Avenue and Lingayan Avenue.