Yuma Crossing Heritage Area
The Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area will conserve, enhance, and interpret the natural and cultural resources of the community through collaboration and partnerships.
- Identify and conserve Yuma's cultural, historical, and geologic resources, recognizing that resource conservation is part of community revitalization.
- Assist partners to develop a diversity of interpretative opportunities, venues, and heritage sites while distinguishing between different levels of the heritage experience.
- Interpret Yuma's heritage resources to emphasize their continuing role in a living, evolving community.
- Support and build upon existing interpretative efforts, creating dynamic partnerships with federal, state, and local entities.
- Attract visitors, investment, and economic opportunity to Yuma to improve the quality of life for its residents.
- Create a gateway to Yuma to welcome and orient visitors and to provide an overview of the areas's significance.
The Yuma Area is rich in historical resources, buildings, bridges, neighborhoods, and archaeological sites.
One important function of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area is to work with partners to preserve and protect these valuable resources. Many original structures on Yuma's Main Street were destroyed in flooding. These concrete structures were built after 1916, many having been rehabilitated and put back into use in recent years.
An important Heritage Area project will be the renovation of the Hotel Del Sol, a structure dating from the mid 1920's which has been empty for a number of years. The Gandolfo Theatre was long a center of community activity. Through a public/private partnership the building has recently been renovated and will continue its useful life for years to come.
The Pivot Point Interpretive Plaza
The Pivot Point Interpretive Plaza is a $1.75 million undertaking intended to showcase the history of the Yuma Crossing and to connect the commercial redevelopment with Gateway Park.
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