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The project's aim is to improve neighborhood safety and decrease gun violence in American communities. Project Safe Neighborhoods was established in 2001 through support from President George W. Bush. [1] The program expands upon strategies used in Boston's Operation Ceasefire, and in Richmond, Virginia's Project Exile.
The black neighborhood in Omaha was clearly defined by redlining practices used by real estate agents, and was identified as the Near Northside. [8] Kountze Place, the second Gold Coast, Dundee and other Omaha neighborhoods and blocks had racially or ethnically restrictive housing covenants. Further restrictions on conveyance (rental, lease ...
The Minne Lusa Residential Historic District is located in North Omaha, Nebraska.It is included on the National Register of Historic Places.According to the National Park Service, it is an "example of a substantial, affordable single-family residential development within the city limits that was platted, developed and constructed by a single firm between 1915 and 1941."
United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown and the Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force announced approximately $152,565 in grant funds for Louisiana.
North Omaha has been the birthplace and home of many figures of national and local import. They include Jewish-American author Tillie Olsen, who was a labor organizer in a packinghouse and wrote about women and the poor working class; Whitney Young, an important civil rights leader and later national director of the Urban League; the Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers; actor John Beasley ...
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A new neighborhood development in the area is called "Midtown Crossing at Turner Park." Being developed by Mutual of Omaha, [1] this new community will include condominiums, apartments, hotel, movie theater, grocery store, restaurants and a health club. It will also renovate and expand Turner Park, one of Midtown's public parks.
This neighborhood was founded in 1924 by Danny Koley as an attempt to portray the beauty of Omaha in a safe and family-friendly environment. According to the City of Omaha, the neighborhood is currently in application process to be recognized as an historic district of significance to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]