The 15-acre cemetery, visible from Jamaica and Hale Avenues, has been a source of neighborhood pride.
"Sure I would like to see improved buildings," he said, but he added that an increase in neighborhood pride is also needed.
Indeed, neighborhood pride is a staple of the shows.
The inhabitants, among whom neighborhood pride is quite developed, also usually declare living in Karataş.
For the volunteers, it also offers something else: a sense of neighborhood pride.
More than 1,800 murals decorate the city as part of a municipally financed arts program to encourage neighborhood pride.
There isn't that kind of neighborhood pride in big cities.
Community leaders say neighborhood pride is running high.
But the plaza is hardly a source of neighborhood pride.
She knew something about the area's cultural history at the time, but moved in because of its well-preserved homes and the prevailing sense of neighborhood pride.