The Grove Place complex promises 43 affordable housing units in an area with convenient access to multiple job centers. An affordable housing development planned for Hollygrove has won the unanimous approval of the City Planning Commission. Called Grove Place, the development would take up an entire square, about 1. Eleven existing doubles and triplexes, now vacant, will be renovated. That section of the property has commercial zoning, requiring a use exception from the city for the multi-family residential building.
A restaurant and brewery complex is in the works for the area behind the Carrollton Avenue post office that was once home to the Hollygrove Market.
On what is now an empty lot with some abandoned industrial buildings, developers are planning the Catalyst Microbrewery and Restaurant. The redeveloped site at Olive St.
The federal funding has a time limit, city officials say. The infrastructure program is scheduled to be completed by The victim was in the block of Apricot Street on May 5 at about 1 p. The victim was able to recover his property, but the assailant was not identified or located. Its business district is included on the National Register of Historic Places, as are three houses and one church in the city. Henry Augustus Fay received a land grant for the region that would become Holly Grove on November 15, The rich land of the area drew several settlers who established plantations to grow cotton and other crops.
The name of the settlement is drawn from thickets of holly trees native to the area. The plantation community was a suburb of Lawrenceville Monroe County , which was the county seat until , when the seat was moved to Clarendon Monroe County.
The creation of the Arkansas Central Railroad in brought prosperity to Holly Grove even as Lawrenceville dwindled to a ghost town. The city was incorporated in It also had a two-story school house. The central building in the city was the railroad depot.
Churches and schools were racially segregated in Holly Grove, as in most of Arkansas at that time. In March , a white storeowner refused to serve an African-American woman in his store, leading to a boycott of his business by the black community, led by the ministers of their churches.
Holly Grove had two newspapers for white readers: the Holly Grove Star , which failed after a few years of publication, and the Holly Grove Leader. It also had a newspaper for the black community, the Arkansas Banner. The Bank of Holly Grove was established in It lasted for more than years, surviving even the Depression, but was purchased by the First National Bank of Eastern Arkansas in A factory manufacturing railroad ties was established around A theater opened in , and a gas station opened in The Flood of devastated the city, as 2, of its citizens fled to higher ground, to be cared for in an American Red Cross camp.
However, the city survived the flood, and the business district around the railroad depot continued to thrive. Rice displaced cotton as the principal crop of the region during the twentieth century. So, the federal government simply estimated the cost of a nutritionally adequate diet in and multiplied that by three to come up with a minimum family budget.
But housing costs have risen much faster than food costs since In the meantime, the poverty data below is probably still the best place to start when describing need in your community.
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