Greenspace-Phoenix Place

It's a bird no it's a plane no it's Phoenix Place, no it's green space. I know rumor had it that the space behind the police station would become a new YMCA. But the abandoned field, 6-7 acres was to hold lots of houses. But, rumor has it will become a green space for Renaissance Pointe.

I know Renaissance Pointe is the surrounding the Hanna-Creighton area, but who can tell in a photo op? So you didn't hear it from me....I'm still looking for all the houses were to be built for the Phoenix place project and the new Renaissance Pointe. Let me know when the first Renaissance Pointe home goes up, will ya? In the meantime, here's a picture of the field of dreams beyond the police station.






Now rumors of a millions of tax dollars..and one single model home will be built representing the future of Renaissance Pointe.

Up from Ashes-Phoenix Place or Renaissance Pointe

On Labor Day weekend, 1997, folks in the Bowser-Creighton spend the morning watching or escaping a burning inferno. Behind the police station thousands of tires burned in their neighborhood. Later city officials began purchasing land in the area with funding from the brownfield program. Several pastors, preachers, reverends, fathers got into the pictures and began buy up land, with Greg Leatherman was in charge of overseeing the operation. African-American men in Action, you see doing something to save the African-American community. The people who stayed behind were told, their neighborhood would be renewed as a sort of biblical phoenix rising from ashes.

This was a branding or marketing hook for those church folks to buy into the promise being peddaled by the men of actions, preacher, minister, city leaders..men. This is needed because this was the same area in the 1960 that African-Americans were resettled into under a negro removal program called urban renewal..Business men got paid and families got shafted. Urban renewal funding was to pay for the tearing down of housing and relocation of African-American families. But city officials redirected the funds to their businesses, friends and families, not to the African-Americans families who qualified for the funding. The excuse African-Americans did not deserve to live among raced whites.


Some houses were built, but here lies unfinished business..



Phoenix Place is unfinished business. But a new negro removal is in the air, first as synergy and now has morphed forward into the Hanna-Creighton Neighborhood as Renaissance Pointe.

If city officials lied about Phoenix Place..where is the proofs they are not lying now about Renaissance Pointe? And where did the money go for the Phoenix Place?

Millions and millions of dollars were to be spent in the Hanna-Creighton neighborhood. Yet the areas has the look of an abandoned field.





Now rumors of a millions of tax dollars..and one single model home will be built representing the future of Renaissance Pointe. One single home is not going to transform the Hanna-Creighton neighborhood! But the background will serve as a photo op for politicians trying to get votes for those who has the audacity to hope