RFP Staff
♦ In the Rowan Free Press’s latest project to haul blighted and vacant Salisbury up by its bootstraps and clean up its neighborhoods without gentrification meant to displace the poor or misuse “taxpayer pilferage” unavailable now with the coming end of North Carolina’s Historic Preservation Tax Credits. Private investment, with checks and balances in place like rent control, can turn Salisbury’s multitude of crack houses, derelict buildings, and toxic ruins into livable communities for EVERYBODY. Ending designated ghettos created by a status quo-minded city hall needs to be the new order of the day.
Pictured here is the “Nightmare on Elm Street” a former church currently a neighborhood crack palace and squatters roost. With private financing this building could become a restaurant, a night club, or even a non-denominational neighborhood church or other religious dwelling. Perhaps a legitimate non profit like “Habitat for Humanity” or some similar group like “Peoples United” could step into the breach for a neighborhood turnaround.
Consider the possibilities with some TLC how blight can be turned into dyn-a-mite:
