As a part of the “Positively Apache Junction” partnership, Project Cities (a university-community partnership program housed in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability) connected with a Herberger Institute Design and Arts Corps graduate level course in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre. These amazing graduate student theatre artists and scholars drew on their abilities as storytellers, researchers and artists to highlight Apache Junction’s cultural vitality and to strengthen social cohesion. Inspired by the idea of “lost treasure” the artists (including youth participants from the City’s Youth Advisory Council) built performance pieces highlighting Apache Junction’s historical context, unique legacies and the deep relationship residents have to the Superstition Mountains. They built a site specific public performance piece held at Flatiron Park in the heart of downtown.