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Historic artsy community focused on connectedness
Named after famous poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar and well-known Tucson teacher John Spring, the historic Dunbar/Spring neighborhood features eclectic home styles from the early 1900s and is within a mile of downtown shopping and dining. During segregation, this community was one of the few not redlining, and many Black Americans were able to buy or rent a home. “From the get-go, this neighborhood was really integrated,” says Karen Greene, neighborhood association board member and resident of 25 years. Several generations of people have stayed in the area, and today, it’s made up of young families, musicians and environmentally-conscious people who work to better the neighborhood. “There’s a connectedness people have with each other here. There’s been times I’ve been late to work because there were three neighbors I was catching up with,” Greene says.
The old Dunbar school was used to segregate Black children in the early 1900's.
There are various Little Free Libraries in the Dunbar Spring neighborhood.
Dunbar Spring is a deeply connected neighborhood, with an active association caring it.
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Early 1900s homes for a comparably lower price
Greene says homebuyers are drawn to Dunbar/Spring because of its lower prices compared to the nearby West University and Armory Park neighborhoods east of the area. Early 20th-century brick and adobe bungalows tend to range between $200,000 and $375,000 and feature wide, front porches overlooking gravel-landscaped lots. Larger four to five-bedroom bungalows and pueblos built between the ’20s and ‘50s are typically priced between $400,000 and $550,000; these homes include fenced-in backyards with wooden verandas and cacti-lined front walkways. Properties here sit along wide, gridded streets—some with sidewalks—dotted with acacia and palm trees, and several brightly-colored murals by local artists can be seen along 9th Avenue and University Boulevard which cuts through the center.
Dunbar Spring does not have sidewalks, but generally plenty of trees providing lots of shade.
Bungalows with native foliage make up most of Dunbar Spring.
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Hanging out at Oury Recreation Center
A half mile south, one of the oldest in the city, David G. Herrera and Ramon Quiroz Park houses Oury Recreation Center, where locals can take a dip in the community pool, check out the playground and shoot hoops at the covered basketball court facing the building’s intricate art murals. Four-acre Anza Park, which underwent major renovations in the early 2020s, touches the eastern corner of the neighborhood and offers a dog park, a playground and sand volleyball courts surrounded by trees. Residents also take advantage of local nonprofit El Grupo’s after-school bike programs; kids can learn more about the sport of cycling while learning leadership and communication skills from coaches.
Oury Park has a large, shaded basketball court for multiple games.
Dunbar Spring is a biking community, with access to many parts of the city very quickly.
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Restaurant staples and shopping sprees in downtown Tucson
Tucson’s Historic Fourth Avenue district is about a mile drive southeast of the neighborhood and features local family restaurants like Caruso’s, the over 90-year-old Tucson staple serving Sicilian-style pasta and crunchy cannolis. Nearby Bison Witches Bar and Deli offers deli sandwiches and bread bowl soups, and from there, residents can walk a half mile north to the popular Time Market for grocery items and flakey croissants at the in-store bakery. A few blocks right, Main Gate Square shopping mall houses local boutiques like Pitaya and Collette selling women’s clothing and accessories.
Dunbar Spring is down the road from an Italian atmosphere at Caruso's on Historic 4th Avenue.
Locals of Dunbar Spring can shop at Pataya for accessories near The UA.
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Folky tunes at the neighborhood Porch Fest
Along with attending monthly neighborhood association meetings, folks like venturing to nearby neighborhoods like West University and Armory Park for Porch Fest where musicians perform in front their homes while onlookers munch on snacks from local food trucks. “It’s like a mini folk festival,” Greene says. She adds that Dunbar/Spring has hosted its own Porch Fest in the past, and the association has tentative plans to do it again. Around March and December every year, residents can trek a mile south to the popular, long-running Fourth Avenue Street Fair featuring hundreds of different arts and craft booths. Every second Saturday of every month, downtown Tucson holds a live music festival on Congress Street filled with local food vendors and street performers.
The celebrated, bi-annual Fourth Avenue Street Fair is hosted only minutes from Dunbar Spring.
All Souls Procession by Susan Kay Johnson is a vivid, quirky mural in Dunbar Spring.
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STEM education at Tucson High Magnet
The neighborhood is served by the Tucson Unified School District, rated an overall B-minus from Niche and the largest in the city. Kids can start at Davis Bilingual Magnet, which scores a B-minus and continue to the unrated Imago Dei Middle, a tuition-free private school near the area. The B-rated Tucson High Magnet offers mathematics and engineering studies through its well-known STEM program.
Davis Bilingual School serves grades K-5 in Tucson, Arizona.
Tucson High Magnet School serves grades 9-12 in Tucson, Arizona.
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Hopping on Sun Tran buses
Downtown Tucson is a mile drive south from Dunbar/Spring, and Interstate 10 can be accessed a mile from the western border. Tucson Sun Tran buses regularly stop on West Speedway Boulevard along the northern border, and Tugo Bike Share stations can be found throughout the neighborhood. Banner-University Medical Center Tucson is 3 miles east of the neighborhood, and Tucson International Airport is a 9-mile drive south.
Sun Tran busses run along the edges of Dunbar Spring, at various times of day.
TUGO Bike Share has rentable bikes accessible on University Boulevard.
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Fighting climate extremes through rain gardens
Since 1996, residents and volunteers in the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood Foresters program resident have planted nearly 1,700 native food-bearing trees and over a million gallons worth of rain gardens in the area. These systems reduce downstream flooding in streets during monsoons and naturally water these plants, bringing shade to public sidewalks during scorching Arizona summers.
Residents of Dunbar Spring appreciate it's low-carbon footprint, with many native trees.
Most months, Dunbar Spring is filled with flowers and trees that dazzle the eyes.
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I do not see a lot of ads for job openings. A lot of my friends whom have graduated from college or are in college and are looking for a part time job have not found any openings. Yet, the homeless population is not high compared to other states so the job system is still pumping.
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6/3/2015Niche Review
In my area I believe the majority of jobs one can get comes from the ones that the University provides. Besides that there are tons of minimum wage jobs in surrounding businesses. But attending a University minimum wage just doesn't cut it sometimes, I know a lot of people that have to get two jobs while being a full-time student.
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10/18/2014Niche Review
there are quiet a few houses that are up for sale or rent near the university. i hardly see any abandon houses.
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Dunbar/Spring Demographics and Home Trends
On average, homes in Dunbar/Spring, Tucson sell after 68 days on the market compared to the national average of 52 days. The median sale price for homes in Dunbar/Spring, Tucson over the last 12 months is $447,775, up 7% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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