Tell us a little bit about what it took to get the Teen Center up and running for it to, at this point, celebrate its third anniversary.

Yeah, that's a great question.

I will say most of the, well, I think all of that work actually happened before my tenure with the city.

However, it was quite a process.

So the teen center, there was actually a lot of community activation around the need for a teen center and a need to really develop that zona del sol plot of land where that we have the boys and girls club the teen center now and the um the ymca you know across the street from the south side library uh you know the city had this this parcel of land and there was really community organizers and our youth that that fought to have have this available i think back i think it was back in 2010 It must have been 2019.

There was this massive youth symposium that was put on by the Children and Youth Commission where we brought youth in.

And the resounding response from youth is that they wanted a space that was theirs, that they could that they could.

But that's a drive for folks right and if you don't have the right transportation and you're 14 you don't make it over there and so it's nice to know that they can do those pickup games now at the team center you talked about the we grow program sandy does that mean that there's like a community garden there uh we