Fort Worth Weekly
Four candidates share their vision for Fort Worth’s
East Side.
By Edward Brown
Gyna Bivens: “District 5 residential and corporate constituents are pleased to see improvements in infrastructure, economic development, police/community relations, and the need for quality builders taking place.”
Photo courtesy of Rachel Delira.
District 5 encompasses much of the East Side and the historically Black neighborhood of Stop Six. The Cavile Place public housing development was recently demolished as part of a massive Stop Six revitalization effort that is possible, in part, due to a $35 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Councilmember Gyna Bivens has represented District 5 since 2013.
She said some of their final words to them included, We told him we would all be fine, but we loved him very much and, that it was OK, we would all be OK. That s the hard part is, him being a statistic. With all the doubters out there that this disease is a hoax or fake or whatever, it is real. It s real tough and hit our family, said Ayala s son Sam.
He said just this past week they lost Louis Ayala s brother-in-law, his uncle, to COVID-19 and now their dad. When it s your own family member, that s what that s what really hurts, Sam Ayala said.