St. Paul s redevelopment takes next step as demolition begins at 6-unit building
and last updated 2020-12-28 16:40:44-05
NORFOLK, Va. - A massive redevelopment took another step on Monday as construction equipment began demolishing a six-unit public housing building in Norfolk s Tidewater Gardens neighborhood.
It s the first building taken down in the multi-million dollar St. Paul s Area Transformation; a plan to tear down three public housing neighborhoods around Downtown Norfolk and replace them with mixed-income housing.
According to city housing officials, Tidewater Gardens, Young Terrace and Calvert Square are areas with high crime and poverty rates and the aging structures are no longer suitable to house low-income families.