Siris Barrios, director of social impact and community organizing at T.R.U.S.T. South LA, a nonprofit organization working to stabilize neighborhoods south of downtown Los Angeles through affordable housing, public transportation projects, and now new parks. The group is working to get a new park built on a former vacant lot on Central Avenue.

Photo by Sophie Craypo

By Sophie Craypo

Contributing Writer

SOUTH LOS ANGELES — A place of conflict and violence in South Los Angeles is being transformed by local residents into a “tranquility park,” a space to relax, meet with friends, and soak up a little greenery amidst hot asphalt and fast-moving cars.

Siris Barrios lives just a five-minute walk away from the vacant lot, which is owned by the city of Los Angeles, on a busy corner of Central

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