Create a community-based neighborhood revitalization strategy

摘要

The south hartsville neighborhood of Hartsville, South Carolina (pop. 7,805), was once a vibrant community, home to black households various incomes and professions and a place for residents to shop, socialize, and attend church. But like many neighborhood retail areas, South Hartsville suc- cumbed to a loss of vitality with the rise of an automobile culture and shopping strips full of discount stores. And with the end of segregation, its African American residents had options to shop elsewhere-and they did, furthering South Hartsville's decline. Vacancies increased, building demolitions multiplied, households moving up the ladder moved out (even recently, population was in decline, with a 37 percent population drop between 1990 and 2010), unemployment rose, and disinvestment set in.