Regarding the article published in Mainebiz from the print edition of June 12, “With Projects Underway, Waterville’s Downtown is Taking on New Life”, we want to correct the statement that “Waterville ...

We have Arbor Housing and Development to thank for renovating some of Elmira’s oldest buildings on Lake and Carroll streets. It was a considerable operation costing around $11.5 million. The buildings ...

There will be a lot of visioning and thinking ahead this coming year as Portsmouth commemorates its 400th anniversary. Re-visiting and re-visioning our past can be beneficial as we look forward – ...

Urban renewal projects sparked the open housing movement to end housing discrimination. A series of demolition and construction projects labeled "urban renewal" destroyed Black neighborhoods in ...

The state’s final report on its three-year, Greater Hartford Mobility Study lays out plans for a dramatic change in the area’s transportation system but it first acknowledges the sobering — and ...

Linnentown was one of many black neighborhoods targeted for removal across Georgia and the rest of the nation during the 1950s and 1960s — and not the only one in Athens. "Urban renewal is not just an ...

ROANOKE, Va. – This article is a continuation of a previous piece published in August focusing on the lasting effects of urban renewal on Roanoke’s Black community. Throughout history, urban renewal ...

In 1969, Yale planned to demolish the Hill neighborhood to build a parking lot. Residents stepped in and protested the proposal. This Footnotes episode examines two urban renewal plans and asks: How ...

STAUNTON — On Saturday, April 23, people will be able to walk through booths of Black-owned businesses and learn about how urban renewal changed the business landscape in downtown Staunton in the '60s ...