Decision to pause border barrier work at binational Friendship Park welcomed by community advocates

The Cultural Landscape Foundation included Friendship Park in Race & Space, the Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit’s 2021 edition of  its annual Landslide list of at-risk cultural landscapes.

“We’re encouraged by CBP’s commitment to greater public engagement and to ultimately reopening this culturally significant park and uniquely important meeting place on the U.S.-Mexico border,” said Charles A. Birnbaum, President & CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, in an emailed statement to AN.