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own any dwellings in East
Winston, according to John
Cockcrham, supervisor of real
estate. He minimized the extent
of city-owned property, saying
?that only 20 ta_35 lots remain to
be sold off for development.
However, he was not able to
provide a complete inventory of
city-owned property in the
geographic area designated by the
East Winston Area Plan.
In addition to lots owned by
the city, the Winston-Salem
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avenues between 12th and 14tt
Housing Authority owns and
manages a total of 691 public
housing units and manages
another 146 publicly subsidized
housing units owned by nonprofit
organizations.
Many of the housing units
owned by private investors are
occupied by tenants who receive
public subsidies of one kind or
another.
Numerous parcels in East
Winston are carried on the books
i^jion-jtaxable property, because
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ches in the African-American
community.
The Chronicle undertook its inquiry
into who owns East
Transit cer
stating, "In a downtown already
pockmarked by parking lots and
an empty Post Office, surely the
Transit Authority can do better
than tearing down existing, productive,
taxpaying properties and
a most significant part of our
historic streetscape."
The group -called the Fifth,
Trade and Liberty site the worst,
from an historical perspective, to
use for a transit center. And, they
said, the block represents the last
example of
"turn-of-the-century" commercial
architecture in the downtown
area.
- Prior to the June 29th meeting,
the Aldermen were given 1,500
signatures collected by shoppers
at McCroy's Department Store
who did not want a transit center
to dislocate the business.
McCroy's is the largest
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driven from the area by a transit
center at the location across from
the post office.
Rick Simon, managed of McCroy's
had said that without major
renovation there was no other
building suitable to house the
company in the downtown area.
"I think with some compromise
on their (the city's) part
the Third and Liberty site could ;
be used," he had said in a earlier
interview.
Many of the small business
owners in the group of 14
threatened with relocation protested
the seletion of their block
for a transit center.
But city officals said that most
of the owners of the property in
the block were willing to sell.
One even approached a city official
and said that selling the
property would be best for the
group of owners that she
represented. They did not want to
_ do ^xtensiye renovations that she
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Winston because the East
Winston community is the target
of two major city planning ai)d
development efforts.
First, the Board of Aldermen is
on the verge of designating a new
redevelopment program for an
area between Cameron and Gray
avenues, from 12th to 14th <
streets, amidst controversy over
what kind of housing should be
build there.
Under this plan, the city would
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designate far rpfipvplnnmpnt
some 16 acres, which would involve
demolishing 78 structures
and relocating 96 families and
two churches. The price tag is
$2.2 million.
This latest redevelopment plan
comes in the wake of years of
controversy over East Winston
redevelopment efforts which
have resulted in widespread
clearance and population dispersal
and relocation, including a
suit against the city filed in 1978
by the NAACP, League of
Women Voters, East Winston
Restoration Society and the Legal
_^AicL Society which sought to
block further clearance and
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felt the structures needed, she
said.
Henry Lindley, owner of
Lindley's Photo and landlord for
seven of the other businesses
slated for relocation, had said he
was willing to sell the citv his oro
perty for the transit center.
"You can't do anything once
the city makes up it's mind," he
had said when the parcel including
his land had first been
chosen for a bus center.
"You could go down to city
hall and take a million people and
talk all day and it wouldn't do
any good."
Although it may have seemed
like it to the Aldermen, it did not
take a million people to get the
site changed. Just the repeated efforts
of concerned citizens.
Now city planners are going to
restudy the Third and Liberty
location.
One major drawback of the
site had been possible conflicts in
traffic flow with buses entering
and leaving the already heavily
traveled streets. The Third and
Liberty location had the highest
pedestrian and auto counts of all
the sites studied as a possible
center location.
Assitant city manager Thomas
W. Fredricks said the city would
"look at the possibility of redo- |
ing the street network in that
area/'
After the decision by the board
on the 29th, the "little guys"
celebrated in the hall outside the
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Aldermen's meeting room.
Several of the 14 small business
owners who had spoken to the
press, Aldermen, Transit
Authority representatives and
other city officials congratulated
each other on winning the fight to
keep their businesses at the present
locations.
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relocation of East Winston
residents. A settlement was
reached by the parties in 1983,
with the city agreeing to channel
more money into housing and
relocation efforts.
Secondly, planning officials
and East Winston residents have
prepared a long-range East
Winston Area Plan for the community's
future development,
which also will require formal approval
by the Board of
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Aldermen. The draft of the area
plan proposes economic development
as well as expanding housing,
transportation and public
safety programs.
Meanwhile, even as the city
eyes more redevelopment efforts
to deal with existing substandard
housing and shapes a plan for
East Winston's future, efforts lag
in marketing cleared property
that was acquired by the city
under programs that date back to
1974 and still remains vacant.
Many in the black community
are frustrated by the delay in
many housing projects. Says
developer William Andrews: "I
think the city of Winston-Salem
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happy," said Theldora Small,
owner of Tes Fashions on the
corner of Fifth and Liberty
streets. "It shows what you can
do when you get up and do a little
work."
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have answered in- the
Chronicle Camera, call our
newsroom at 723-8448 or
723-8428, or mail your questions
to the Winston-Salem
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Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102.
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has been dragging its feet ... a lot
of funds got shifted to Mercantile
Plaza or stuff downtown, the
Trade Street mall, or going back
to tear up the Trade Street mall,
or West Salem. The money just
gets away."
Andrews claims that he recalls
plans dating back 25 years "to do
something about housing across
from Atkins High School," the
precise area proposed now for
redevelopment.
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