retired business consultant who first moved to the area in the 1990s
Green lived in multiple condos throughout her time in St. Petersburg, but ended up building her own home in Campbell Park
Sounds like your typical uppity yankee, coming in and telling YOU what your local history is. But no worries, if she keeps sticking her nose in other people's areas and making a spectacle of herself in Campbell Park, she'll pay the toll soon enough.
It is one of those historic black neighborhoods that got decimated to make way for the interstates, hospitals, ball field, and apartment buildings that transport, house and entertain all the wealthy white liberals who moved in. It was nice once, but became industrial and crime-ridden when eminent domain bulldozed all those people's 100 year old houses. The people who live there did not forget their history, and typically hate white liberal do-gooders like the tour guide in question. People like her have been coming in for years with promises of help and revitalization only for things to get worse.
Oh sweet! I've heard a bit about how St. Pete the city just takes what they want from the older black neighborhoods, and on the other hand how the younger residents act like their grandparents weren't compensated by businesses that bought their land. It's quite the tale.
Yeah, it's a mixed bag. On one hand, the city did take over properties for the interstates, Tropicana, and the hospitals and what was left started to disappear in the late 2000s to make way for private development. But they did that to everyone that didn't push back. My grandparents house was demolished in Tampa. The old orange growers say the government infected their groves with blight so the trees would fail, they'd lose agricultural tax exemption, and be forced to sell. This really happened and we have heard stories of men in suits with briefcases lurking around groves at night.
Sounds like your typical uppity yankee, coming in and telling YOU what your local history is. But no worries, if she keeps sticking her nose in other people's areas and making a spectacle of herself in Campbell Park, she'll pay the toll soon enough.
I take it Campbell Park is considered part of Darktown?
It is one of those historic black neighborhoods that got decimated to make way for the interstates, hospitals, ball field, and apartment buildings that transport, house and entertain all the wealthy white liberals who moved in. It was nice once, but became industrial and crime-ridden when eminent domain bulldozed all those people's 100 year old houses. The people who live there did not forget their history, and typically hate white liberal do-gooders like the tour guide in question. People like her have been coming in for years with promises of help and revitalization only for things to get worse.
So yeah, bad move.
Oh sweet! I've heard a bit about how St. Pete the city just takes what they want from the older black neighborhoods, and on the other hand how the younger residents act like their grandparents weren't compensated by businesses that bought their land. It's quite the tale.
Yeah, it's a mixed bag. On one hand, the city did take over properties for the interstates, Tropicana, and the hospitals and what was left started to disappear in the late 2000s to make way for private development. But they did that to everyone that didn't push back. My grandparents house was demolished in Tampa. The old orange growers say the government infected their groves with blight so the trees would fail, they'd lose agricultural tax exemption, and be forced to sell. This really happened and we have heard stories of men in suits with briefcases lurking around groves at night.