Communities Matter.
Community Matters.
Communities like Simpson Neighborhood and our surrounding neighborhoods play a role in our lives, whether we realize it or not. They work on everyone's behalf to improve and maintain our corner of Phoenix.
More importantly, a sense of community is what makes our neighborhoods feel like home. Knowing, helping, and interaction with your immediate neighbors and beyond creates lasting relationships that community is built upon.
Who We Are
What We Do
Simpson History
In Our Neighborhood
Randi & Steven Still: Co-Chairs - Recently took the reins from Paul Ennis after his 20+ years as the chief custodians of Simpson Neighborhood. Randi & Steven have worked towards creating a greater sense of community, including events such as Wag 'n Walk Wednesdays, Quarterly Alley Clean-ups, Monthly Litter Walks, and are working to bring back holiday luminaries to the entire neighborhood.
We are the Simpson Neighborhood Association Committee. As your fellow residents, with your help, we are working to make Simpson a neighborhood that we can all appreciate and be proud to have a part in creating.
One of first new growth areas in the Valley after WWII. Neighborhood boundaries are I-17 to 19th Ave; Bethany Home to Camelback. First homes were built around 1948 on former cotton fields and cattle pastures. The major subdivision, Bethany Villa Homes was built around 1953 through 1957, and is bound on the north by Bethany Home Road. Architecture is predominately 50's ranch style homes with carports and large yards. Landscaping originally consisted of Bermuda grass, oleanders, palms, mulberry, ash and lots of citrus trees. With the changing times and trends, our streets are seeing a change toward desert landscaping with regional and drought resistant plants. When homes were new, they were identical; over the years have been quite individualized.
With the encouragement of Alhambra District Office, the principal of Simpson School helped parents Peggy Klitzke and Paul Enniss, (Co-chairs) & Paul's wife Cindy Enniss (Treasurer) start Simpson Neighborhood Community Association, about 1995. The association has been a true bridge between old and new, uniting neighbors with available community services to aid the transition from run-down blighted neighborhood to a desirable community.
In our neighborhood are 1,800 households, 5,000 residents, Phoenix Fire Station No. 18, a location for the Boys and Girls Club of America, and 8 churches. Within a mere 3-tenths of a mile of our neighborhood is Phoenix Baptist Hospital, The Washington Adult Center, Washington Park and Public Swimming Pool, the YMCA, Solano Park, the Yucca branch of the Phoenix Public Library, Harkins Theatres, the Jewish Community Center. In the center of our neighborhood at 23rd Ave. and Missouri is Choice Learning Academy (former RE Simpson School), originally opened in 1956 as part of the Alhambra Elementary School District. In 2020 the School changed formats to improve enrollment, and now serves as a project-based learning campus for 6th to 8th graders. Also serving our neighborhood students is Empower College prep, who has recently moved their K-12 campus into Simpson Neighborhood.