West Pasco Habitat for Humanity Cleaning Up Leisure Lane - Photos by J. David Wright
PDF VersionWest Pasco Habitat for Humanity has purchased 17 lots on Leisure Lane and Van Doren Avenue in a run-down neighborhood that has become the focus of a more than year-long struggle to contain crime and clean-up blight.
The agency also wants to purchase an additional 13 lots from another owner as part of a short-term goal to acquire 40 lots. The goal, over the next five years, is to begin turning the mobile-home district into a single-family neighborhood of affordable houses.
It is the first time West Pasco Habitat for Humanity has attempted a neighborhood-wide redevelopment, said executive director Johannes Appelgrijn.
"We really need to rebrand the whole neighborhood," he said. "We want to add some walkways to break-up the dead-end streets and - to read more, visit: http://www.tampabay.com/news/West-Pasco-Habitat-to-rebuild-troubled-neighborhood_164811107
