Officials in St. Petersburg have looking at combining two older neighborhoods, one wealthly and the other depressed, to help create a better bond and hopefully increase investment in the depressed neighborhood.
"Adding some neighborhoods to Midtown would improve the economic profile of the area troubled by unrest in 1996...Jennifer Hogge lives on Fourth Avenue N, in a gentrified neighborhood of well-kept lawns and freshly painted bungalows.Officially, it's Historic Kenwood. But city officials wanted to make it part of Midtown, traditionally defined as southern central St. Petersburg. Hogge doesn't know what the two areas have in common."
Thanks to David Hey
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