KHOU's Aqui profiles changing Freedmen's Town
KHOU-11's Reggie Aqui posts a story on Houston's Freedmen's District, which is rapidly losing its historic character because of redevelopment.
This isn't the main point of the story, but it caught my eye:
The city refurbished several shotgun homes in the old style. "They look so great you wouldn't know they are historic, which is kind of a loss too," Litke says.
And they've kept the skinny, crowded streets the founders built.
A number of Houston neighborhoods -- particularly the ones that have historically been economically depressed -- suffer from skinny streets and inadequate city infrastructure. Rather than thinking of it as a charming feature, I've always regarded it as a dereliction of responsibility on the part of the city.
Opinions vary, I suppose.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/23/05 01:49 PM | Houston Life | Print | Comments (1)
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