by Natalie DiCostanza | Sep 3, 2025
Planning efforts are underway in the Southbridge neighborhood as part of a broader neighborhood revitalization blueprint that envisions infill housing and parks while protecting community character—though specifics on 30 new townhomes remain in planning phase,...
by Natalie DiCostanza | Sep 3, 2025
In 2022–2023, WNCLB played a key role in creating a new community-designed playground at Neighborhood House in Southbridge—transforming a vacant lot into a three‑phase safe space, with plans for a multi‑sport court and green classroom to grow produce for a youth...
by Natalie DiCostanza | Sep 3, 2025
Launched in August 2022, the Lower Hilltop Affordable Housing Initiative focused on transforming a concentrated zone near the 4th Street Corridor in Wilmington’s West Side by acquiring up to 80 vacant units and turning them into affordable homeownership opportunities....
by Natalie DiCostanza | Sep 3, 2025
In 2021, WNCLB refocused its efforts on rebuilding underprivileged neighborhoods by developing an equitable housing strategy across the East Side, West Side, and Hilltop areas — aiming to create 140 affordable housing units, remove 60 unsafe structures, and establish...
