May 05, 2020
Norfolk’s housing authority will suspend the relocation of residents and most redevelopment efforts in the St. Paul’s area until at least October, after a legal agreement with residents and advocates sparked by coronavirus. For more information visit pilotonline.com.
February 11, 2020
190 new apartments planned in one of the first steps in Norfolk’s St. Paul’s overhaul
Norfolk’s City Council has taken the first step toward approving a developer’s plan to build a pair of four-story apartment buildings in St. Paul’s as part of the planned massive redevelopment of the area.
Two city-owned parking lots on Wood Street, between St. Paul’s Boulevard and Fenchurch Street, are expected to become apartment buildings with a mix of subsidized and market-rate units. For more information visit pilotonline.com
January 14, 2020
Lawsuit seeks to block Norfolk’s plan to move people out of public housing in St. Paul’s
Residents are asking a federal judge to block Norfolk’s St. Paul’s area redevelopment plan, which they say would further segregate and disadvantage black residents and thus violate federal law.
The lawsuit, which names four St. Paul’s residents and two community groups as the plaintiffs, was filed Monday. In a 51-page complaint, they argue that the city of Norfolk and its housing authority have failed to provide the bulk of residents that will be moved out of St. Paul’s with appropriate housing, and that the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is complicit by signing off on the plan. For more information visit pilotonline.com
January 01, 2020
Norfolk public housing residents wait and wonder as move-outs in St. Paul’s are delayed by months
They weren’t supposed to be here for Christmas. They weren’t even supposed to be here for Labor Day.
Hundreds of residents of a section of Norfolk’s Tidewater Gardens — deemed Phase 1 by the city and housing authority — were supposed to move out this past summer, the first leg of a relocation effort that will eventually move 4,200 people out of the St. Paul’s area to make way for a major redevelopment effort. For more information visit pilotonline.com