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Phil: New page: '''Dowell Naylor''' was chairman and chief executive director of the Maumelle Land Development Company. He was also executive director of the Little Rock Housing Authority. Naylor...

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'''Dowell Naylor''' was chairman and chief executive director of the [[Maumelle Land Development Company]]. He was also executive director of the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]].

Naylor engaged in numerous revitalization projects in central Arkansas, including the [[Urban Progress Association]]'s rehabilitation efforts in the central business district, the Livestock Show Area project, the Philander Smith project, the West Rock project, the University Park project, and the Granite Mountain project. Naylor also worked with the citizen's committee organizing into the [[Quapaw Quarter Association]].

As executive director of the Little Rock Housing Authority Naylor administered public housing projects at Sunset Terrace, Booker Homes, Highland Park, Ives, and Hollinsworth. Naylor served as executive director from 1960 to 1966. In 1966 he moved to Oklahoma City to establish a Urban Action Foundation along the lines of the Little Rock Urban Progress Association.

Within a year Naylor returned to Central Arkansas to work with insurance executive [[Jess Odom]] on the New Town development that became [[Maumelle]]. Maumelle is sited on nearly six thousand acres of land formerly used as an ammunition dump.

Naylor was born in Waco, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin before becoming the executive director of the Paris Housing Authority in Paris, Texas, and then the director of the Columbia Housing Authority in Columbia, Missouri. His father was Dowell Naylor Sr. who directed the Waco Housing Authority. He was married to Frances Wilcox Naylor. He has three daughters Nanette Foreman, Kathleen Sleeker, and Julie Naylor.

==References==

*"Obituary," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' November 24, 2002.

==External links==

[[Category: 2002 deaths]]

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 '''Dowell Naylor Jr.''' was chairman and chief executive director of the [[Maumelle Land Development Company]]. He was also executive director of the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]] in the early 1960s.
-Naylor engaged in numerous revitalization projects in central Arkansas, including the [[Urban Progress Association]]'s rehabilitation efforts in the central business district of Little Rock, the [[Livestock Show Area]] project, the Philander Smith project, the [[Westrock]] project, the University Park project, and the [[Granite Mountain]] slum clearance project. Naylor also worked with the citizen's committee organizing into the [[Quapaw Quarter Association]].
+Naylor engaged in numerous revitalization projects in central Arkansas, including the [[Urban Progress Association]]'s rehabilitation efforts in the central business district of Little Rock, the [[Livestock Show Area]] project, the Philander Smith project, the [[Westrock]] project, the University Park project, and the [[Granite Mountain]] slum clearance project. He was the chief author of the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] in 1961. Naylor also worked with the citizen's committee organizing into the [[Quapaw Quarter Association]].
 As executive director of the Little Rock Housing Authority Naylor administered public housing projects at [[Sunset Terrace]], [[Booker Homes]], [[Highland Park]], [[Ives]], and [[Hollinsworth]]. Naylor served as executive director from 1960 to 1966. In 1966 he moved to Oklahoma City to establish a Urban Action Foundation along the lines of the Little Rock Urban Progress Association.
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 ==References==
 *"Obituary," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' November 24, 2002.

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 '''Dowell Naylor Jr.''' was chairman and chief executive director of the [[Maumelle Land Development Company]]. He was also executive director of the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]] in the early 1960s.
-Naylor engaged in numerous revitalization projects in central Arkansas, including the [[Urban Progress Association]]'s rehabilitation efforts in the central business district of Little Rock, the Livestock Show Area project, the Philander Smith project, the West Rock project, the University Park project, and the Granite Mountain project. Naylor also worked with the citizen's committee organizing into the [[Quapaw Quarter Association]].
+Naylor engaged in numerous revitalization projects in central Arkansas, including the [[Urban Progress Association]]'s rehabilitation efforts in the central business district of Little Rock, the [[Livestock Show Area]] project, the Philander Smith project, the [[Westrock]] project, the University Park project, and the [[Granite Mountain]] slum clearance project. Naylor also worked with the citizen's committee organizing into the [[Quapaw Quarter Association]].
-As executive director of the Little Rock Housing Authority Naylor administered public housing projects at Sunset Terrace, Booker Homes, Highland Park, Ives, and Hollinsworth. Naylor served as executive director from 1960 to 1966. In 1966 he moved to Oklahoma City to establish a Urban Action Foundation along the lines of the Little Rock Urban Progress Association.
+As executive director of the Little Rock Housing Authority Naylor administered public housing projects at [[Sunset Terrace]], [[Booker Homes]], [[Highland Park]], [[Ives]], and [[Hollinsworth]]. Naylor served as executive director from 1960 to 1966. In 1966 he moved to Oklahoma City to establish a Urban Action Foundation along the lines of the Little Rock Urban Progress Association.
 Within a year Naylor returned to Central Arkansas to work with insurance executive [[Jess Odom]] on the New Town development that became [[Maumelle]]. Maumelle is sited on nearly six thousand acres of land formerly used as an ammunition dump.