Enzo Passo | FIU Caplin News

For Jose Perez, a senior at Hialeah Gardens Senior High School and director of the Sleepwarm Foundation’s Miami chapter, the effort began with an Instagram conversation with the nonprofit’s CEO, Julian Tran.

The popular park, where special events and programs are held throughout the year and home to one of Miami-Dade's first LGBTQ monuments, is not up to snuff, according to some of its residents.