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Wilmington's Northside faces gentrification after new development


The 2003 Northside Community Plan aimed to reduce crime, provide economic growth and build a grocery store
Some changes have been made, while others are still in progress, but some say those changes brought negative effects
The Northside has seen progress, but they have also seen gentrification of their Black community
Some believe a new plan is needed to address the current issues the Northside faces now
In the early 2000s, Wilmington’s Northside had a vision. 
At the time, the Northside saw more than one-third of families from its neighborhoods living in poverty.
Northside is described as including the area from the Cape Fear River to the MLK Parkway, Smith Creek around Love Grove, then down to 11th Street (not to include Oakdale Cemetery), back up to 17th Street, down Grace Street until it becomes Walnut Street, down to Third Street and over to Red Cross Street. ....

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Keep New Hanover Beautiful seabin installation clears over 100 pounds of trash from Cape Fear River


The seabins in the Cape Fear River have cleaned a lot of trash and seagrass, the latter of which often has micro bits of plastic in it. (Port City Daily/Courtesy of Keep New Hanover Beautiful)
WILMINGTON In a little over a month, 132.3 pounds of trash and seagrass have been removed from the Cape Fear River. Local environmental organization Keep New Hanover Beautiful (KNHB) installed two seabins at the end of November at Port City Marina at Pier 33 in downtown Wilmington. 
Essentially floating trash receptacles, the seabins  created over the last three years by two water lovers in Australia   were awarded by the nonprofit’s parent organization Keep America Beautiful. Three affiliates, including ones in Ohio and Tennessee, are among some of the first to try out the environmental technology that aims to rid oceans of plastics worldwide.   ....

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