Federal transportation officials are granting San Francisco $2 million to fund a study identifying how to reconnect the Fillmore with Japantown and the Western Addition neighborhoods. The grant aims to address the harm caused by the widening of Geary Street and the displacement of residents and businesses in the Fillmore area.
Federal transportation officials are granting San Francisco $2 million to fund a study identifying how to reconnect the Fillmore with Japantown and the Western Addition neighborhoods. Six decades after The City widened Geary Street into an expressway, cutting the neighborhood off from other communities in The City and displacing residents and businesses, the U.S.
Department of Transportation’s multimillion-dollar award will create a community council representing Black, Japanese and Jewish residents displaced by the construction of the Geary Boulevard and Fillmore Street underpass. The federal grant has signaled a long-awaited change to the Fillmore’s residents and business owners, many of whom have grappled with the ripple effects of urban renewal since the 1960s. “I think it's long overdue,” said Majeid Crawford, the executive director at New Community Leadership Foundation, one of the Fillmore-based organizations that wrote a letter of support for the grant project. “I believe that the federal government seems to have recognized the harm that transportation and freeway projects have caused Black communities throughout the country and this is a first step toward undoing that damag
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