Penrose Rising
from the Metro Times:
Penrose Rising
Changes are under way.
By Curt Guyette
Published: May 15, 2013
Seven years after moving to Detroit’s Penrose neighborhood, Jonathan Hubbard’s memory of that first night remains vivid.
Arriving at the age of 11 with his mother, Carolyn Campbell, and his two younger siblings, Hubbard had come from a much nicer area on the city’s west side. Looking around his new neighborhood for the first time, he saw the crackheads and the prostitutes, heard gunshots, and then went to bed — but not to sleep.
“I was too scared to sleep,” recalls Hubbard, now an 18-year-old high school senior.
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The criminals are being pushed out, abandoned buildings are being torn down and new houses are springing up. The changes under way caused Hubbard to have a change of heart. Instead of wanting to flee, he’s planning to stay. .................(more)
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