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June 22, 2004
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(330) 315-3715
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Article Highlights Nela Manor and Highland Square Area
The Community Health Center’s largest housing project to date, Nela Manor, was part of an article in the Akron Beacon Journal regarding the Highland Square Area. Below is an excerpt from the article discussing Nela Manor.
`Fun, funky' gem serious on future
Sunday, June 20, 2004
Highland Square free spirits work on keeping their area vibrant, attractive and full of youth
By Katie Byard and Paula Schleis
Beacon Journal staff writers
Two apartment buildings have become recent conversation pieces. Nela Manor Apartments, once fashionable upscale garden apartments, is now a federally subsidized complex. It is also notorious for drug dealing and prostitution. But the only activity passers-by will see now at the corner of Market and Rhodes Avenue is masons repointing the brick work. The apartments were purchased by the Community Health Center, formerly the Community Drug Board, which has begun a $3.6 million restoration.
The 35 units will remain subsidized when they reopen in December,
but Health Center spokesman Ed Carter said the agency ``is going to do
our best to correct (the slide of recent years) and make sure tenants
there are not involved in illicit activities. Since we're the southeast
anchor of Highland Square development, we hope to change the complexion
of that whole area.''
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