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• Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project
  ...rban Renewal Project''' (CLR URP) began in 1961 as a joint effort of the [[Urban Progress Association]], the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]] (LRHA), [[Dow ====History of Little Rock Urban Renewal====
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• Main Page
  ...and a [[Ottenheimer Hall|festival hall]] and fresh food market rekindling urban investment. In total, about $1 billion of direct investment touched off a r ...omobile, traffic, and parking; entertainment and its convenience; Southern urban living and preservation of a distinctive rural character; clutter and its r
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• Jimmy Moses
  ...er Real Estate]] and a prominent Little Rock-area commercial developer and urban planner. Moses started the company which bears his name in 1984. His partne ...ife B.J., the kids, and a dog into the family Volvo station wagon to study urban and regional planning at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He later
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• Little Rock River Market District
  ...ies. It is also increasingly becoming a residential neighborhood for young urban professionals and empty nesters. ...es and displacement of people during the 1960s [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] had in many ways had harmed the native "character" of downtown Li
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• Metrocentre Improvement District
  ...lan]]. Moses interpreted the Main Street 1969 plan as stressing variety in urban activities, specialty stores and entertainment opportunities over departmen ...ng of vast swaths of downtown during the 1960s [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] left plenty of space for parking -- 20,269 parking spaces in exce
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• First Security Center
  ...igned to encourage urban density which in turn is expected to ignite urban renewal of other services.
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• Argenta Historic District
  The '''Argenta Historic District''' is an urban neighborhood in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The district runs along Melros *Laura Stevens, "Argenta Backers Say No Looking Back Now; Downtown NLR Renewal Has Passed 'Tipping Point,'" ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' August 10, 2008
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• Main Street 1969 plan
  ...[Tower Building (office tower)|Tower Building]] and along Main Street. The renewal project also had a special committee designated for work on a proposed [[Qu *John N. Popham, "Planners Vision New 'Main Street': Conference Analyzes Urban Needs: Studies Hailed in Eisenhower Message," ''New York Times,'' June 11,
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• Raymond Rebsamen
  ...ets away for practically nothing? ... The tool to save our cities is urban renewal." *Jerry Dhonau, "Rebsamen: He Made Renewal Work," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' April 25, 1965.
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• Diamond Center
  ...d to restore some of the neighborhood character of a city ravaged by urban renewal clearance efforts from the 1950s to the 1970s. Activist [[Robert "Say" McIn
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• Dowell Naylor
  ...arance project. He was the chief author of the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] in 1961. Naylor also worked with the citizen's committee organizi ...to establish a Urban Action Foundation along the lines of the Little Rock Urban Progress Association.
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• Urban Progress Association
  ...[[Metroplan]] authorities, and the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]]. The Urban Progress Association coordinated the purchase of swaths of deteriorating pr ...The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimit
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• Granite Mountain neighborhood
  ...using and Home Finance Agency, was part of the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. Actual clearance began in the neighborhood in January 1955. Slum *Gene Foreman, "Urban Renewal: A Decade of Progress Has Brought Impressive Changes to Little Rock," ''Ark
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• Clyde E. Lowry
  Gene Foreman, "Urban Renewal: A Decade of Progress Has Brought Impressive Changes to Little Rock," ''Ark
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• Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project
  ...rban Renewal Project''' (CLR URP) began in 1961 as a joint effort of the [[Urban Progress Association]], the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]] (LRHA), [[Dow ====History of Little Rock Urban Renewal====
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• Hollinsworth Grove
  ...nal Airport]] at Adams Field. Hollinsworth Grove was part of a major urban renewal program in the 1960s.
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• Westrock
  ...en called "slum clearance") activity under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] between 1959 and 1964. In all, 53.9 acres of land and one hundred *Bob Stover, "Sweeping 'Renewal' Ending Quietly," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' November 2, 1977
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• Dunbar neighborhood
  ...951 under the [[Urban Progress Association]]'s [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. More than $2.2 million in federal money approved under Title I o *John A. Kirk, "'A Study in Second-Class Citizenship': Race, Urban Development and Little Rock's Gillam Park, 1934-2004," ''Arkansas Historica
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• Philander Smith neighborhood
  ...ed area to Philander Smith College. It represented the first federal urban renewal project west of the Mississippi River. *Matilda Tuohey, "Little Rock Has Massive Urban Renewal Program," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' February 17, 1963.
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• Livestock Show Area
  ...inated by the [[Urban Progress Association]]'s [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. ...Rock Housing Authority]] between 1965 and 1970. During this phase of urban renewal critics charged the Housing Authority with trying to "scare the whites out.
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• Meyer Brothers Drug Company
  ...6011 Scott Hamilton Drive during the 1960s-era [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. *"More Goes On Than Meets the Eye in Urban Renewal," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' June 27, 1965.
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• Burgess Hotel
  ...demolished several months later as part of the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. *George Bentley, "Urban Renewal: It's Changing the Face of Little Rock," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' March 27, 19
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• Buddy's Cafe
  ...s demolished a few months later as part of the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. *George Bentley, "Urban Renewal: It's Changing the Face of Little Rock," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' March 27, 19
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• Markham Street Barbershop
  ...s demolished a few months later as part of the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. The barbershop was operated for thirty years from the 1920s to t *George Bentley, "Urban Renewal: It's Changing the Face of Little Rock," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' March 27, 19
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• Park Hotel
  ...s demolished a few months later as part of the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. It was formerly known as the [[Arkansas Hotel]]. *George Bentley, "Urban Renewal: It's Changing the Face of Little Rock," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' March 27, 19
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• Legal Row
  ...lost its concentration of attorneys during the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. Attorneys with offices in neighborhood included [[Arch Campbell] *George Bentley, "Urban Renewal: It's Changing the Face of Little Rock," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' March 27, 19
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• Johnnie's Shoe Shop
  ...tol Avenue in Little Rock. Under the 1960s era [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] the shop moved to the 100 block of Main Street.
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• USO Building
  ...ng was demolished in the late 1960s during the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]].
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• Continental Trailways Bus Depot
  ...Rock. The bus station was demolished under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] in the late 1960s.
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• Central Core Development Plan
  ...ogram manager of the plan was [[George L. Wildgen]], executive director of Urban Progress. "Central LR Plan to Be Developed by Urban Progress," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' May 21, 1968.
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• George Millar Jr.
  ...ock Chamber of Commerce]] during the 1960s-era [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]].
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• Noland Blass Jr.
  ...thor of the [[Main Street 1969 plan]] and [[Capitol Place plan]] for urban renewal in the city in the 1960s. He also participated in the design of the [[Wilbu ...y for the Future]]. He was chairman of the [[Little Rock Housing Authority Urban Design Committee]] and past president of the [[Metropolitan YMCA]], [[Arkan
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• Jason Rouby
  ...y 1, 1962, when he joined the Omaha Chamber of Commerce to help with urban renewal activities in that Nebraska city.
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• B. Finley Vinson
  ...[[Little Rock Housing Authority]]. Vinson has said of his time with urban renewal in the 1950s: "I think it missed some of its goals, and there were serious *John A. Kirk, "'A Study in Second-Class Citizenship': Race, Urban Development and Little Rock's Gillam Park, 1934-2004," ''Arkansas Historica
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• Max D. Gold
  Gold was a president of urban renewal organization [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]]. He helped establish the [[
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• New Town In-Town
  ...s and displacement of people during the 1960s [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] had in some ways harmed the "character" of downtown Little Rock. ...o remain in the area by providing regular foot patrols by police officers. Urban residential rehabilitation was recommended over blight removal, as was the
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• Ninth Street
  ...at cut through the neighborhood and during the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. Three blocks on the north side of Ninth Street west of Broadway
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• University Park
  ...964 to 1977 the area was redeveloped under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]]. Two hundred and eighty two acres were revitalized west of Univer *Bob Stover, "Sweeping 'Renewal' Ending Quietly," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' November 2, 1977.
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• Community Development Block Grant program
  ...threat to black neighborhoods as was the 1960s [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] because land and buildings were not condemned without the approva *Bob Stover, "Sweeping 'Renewal' Ending Quietly," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' November 2, 1977.
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• Little Rock Housing Authority
  ...he debate over integration later in the decade. Conservatives dubbed urban renewal "socialistic." Liberals called it "Negro removal." Adolphine Terry, who org [[Category:Urban renewal]]
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• Booker Homes
  ...ed by the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]] in the early 1950s with "urban renewal" funds available under Title I of the Housing Act of 1949. The development ...he debate over integration later in the decade. Conservatives dubbed urban renewal "socialistic." Liberals called it "Negro removal." Adolphine Terry, who org
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• Sterling Cockrill Jr.
  [[Category:Urban renewal]]
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• Slum Clearance Referendum of 1950
  ...0 effort to a pass the referendum. Slum clearance was later renamed "urban renewal." ...rman [[Arthur Mills]] into the [[Taxpayers Defense Council]], called urban renewal "socialistic" and dubbed Stevenson the "Public Housing-Santa Claus." Wrote
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• Technical Advisory Committee on Significant Structures
  ...tle Rock]] to study the historic structures of the city and to guide urban renewal efforts. The committee defined the [[Quapaw Quarter]] of historic homes.
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