The Executive Board of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, Inc. gave its approval to the redevelopment plan worked out by its Housing Committee and Team Four, an urban planning firm.
Tag: Neighborhood Planning
More black residents — both as owners and renters of housing units — constitute a major change in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area during the 1960s, census returns made public recently indicate.
A committee from Women for City Living is inquiring into official plans for the future use of Skinker Boulevard and McCausland Avenue.
Plans for the redevelopment of the "triangle area," the northeast corner of the Skinker-DeBaliviere area from Delmar back to Waterman and the 5800 block of DeGiverville are continuing.
Mr. Cal Stuart will discuss the latest on the redevelopment plan.
Surveys of residential and commercial areas designated for redevelopment under the Neighborhood Development Incentive Program have been completed in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.
Within the Skinker-DeBaliviere area there are approximately 2,500 children ranging from ages six to thirteen (the combined enrollment of Hamilton and St. Roch's schools.) Perhaps there are half again that many in the fourteen to nineteen age group; no figures are available.
The 353 Bill which will allow for the redevelopment of an area just west of DeBaliviere was approved by the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor in early April.
Our columnist Bob Brown, called early in April and said he'd heard something about the Job Corps Center site on Delmar and wanted to do a column on it.
The future of the Left Bank Bookstore and the Lantern House Restaurant is in doubt as a result of the sale of the building on the southwest corner of Skinker and Delmar Boulevards to Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Not being a graduate of the school of social work, I cannot solve the sociological problems in our neighborhood.
The greatest improvement for our neighborhood would be for us to have the use of Forest Park for all of our families.
