AUGUS 23 - 29. 1987 THE ICHIGAN CITIZEN
Continued from P
ler Corp. pullout grant was in
place.
The Mayor said that by-laws
for the development corpora­
tion were in the process of
being drafted by attorneys.
The Holland proposal would
solicit community investment
and ownership.
Speaking of the VIrginia
Par success, Holland said, '1t
started with nickels and dimes
from a dozen people deter­
mined to pull their neighbor­
hood up from the devastation
of the 1967 riots. Today the
VIrginia Park Community
Plaza is fully occupied provid-
ing stable economic base
and the area's first convenient
shopping center."
That center has a 31,000
quare foot supermarket,
three restaurants, a beauty
and barber shop, branch bank
and hardware store. OYer
230 employees, many from the
Wor hops for
Pare of Teens
For paren and concerned
citizens 0 wish to improve
adult-teen relationshi . Ex­
perts will provide pointers,
group discussion will p ovide
encourage nt
Spo
dOle!tCelllt
Co
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ed sho
neighborhood, wor at the
plaza.
The shopping center was
developed by Virginia Park
Community Investment As­
sociates, (VPCIA), an out­
growth of a neighborhood dis­
trict council, one of 20 the city
established to help revive riot­
tom areas.
The community's first step
was to form a separate non-
ppJy for
� pplications are now being
ccepted from all over the State
for the Tenth Annual i
i higan Teen All Amrican
P geant to be pre nted Sun­
day, September 13th at the ovi
Hilton. The i higan event is
the Official Preliminary to Miss
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profit arm of the councu; to
develop the project. Thus,
VPCIA was incorporated and
sold shares in the for-profit
venture.
All told, 200 neighborhood
residents invested $100,000.
The city matched that with
$20,000 grant and $1.23 mi1-
lion in community develop­
ment block grant funds for
the $4 million project.
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