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Originally Posted by photoLith
Fucking moronic
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I still lived in Lawrenceville when the project's development process started, and my wife went to a few of the community meetings. There was a lot of hostility to the developer because he's Nigerian, and the old-timers were racists. They sincerely believed that the project was going to involve bringing in "Section 8" folks into the neighborhood.
There were other elements as well. During the period the church was abandoned, people on the nearby streets had taken to using the lot as free off-street parking, and liked it that way. I dunno which group of "concerned citizens" hired the private lawyer even after it cleared zoning however.
I do have to say I don't think Holy Family Church actually has a lot of architectural merit compared to other churches in the neighborhood, so I won't mourn its loss. But I'm fucking pissed that instead of a relatively high-density multifamily project (which Lawrencville needs more of) we're getting more effin new construction townhouses.