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AKRON , Ohio — Mayor Shammas Malik announced plans during his State of the City to try to hire a firm and design what could go in place of the abandoned 30-acre stretch that formerly served as part of the Akron Innerbelt .
Julien told News 5 that the completed stretch of highway was meant to accommodate more than 100,000 cars a day. At its peak, he said it never saw more than 25,000 cars a day.Last year, Akron received nearly $1 million from the Department of Transportation to start looking at what’s possible. "Was this a mistake - absolutely," Graham Moore said, referencing that any future development must have the community in mind."The process of putting in the Innerbelt devastated the community. So if we look at it solely as a property to be developed, we completely miss the opportunity to talk about what happened and learn from the mistakes that happened in the past."
"This disrupted a thriving vibrant community that was primarily African American," she said."If you look at a map of Akron, this is this scar. The harm it did. It impacted generational wealth."Change can be difficult to pinpoint. But 50 years later, Bishop Joey Johnson admits it's obvious where it all went wrong growing up on Douglas Street in Akron.
"I remember just waiting," Johnson said."I guess we're gonna be moving? I guess we're not. It was painful. The Innerbelt was just a nightmare, not knowing what was happening, if your house was gonna be taken. Some houses were taken, some were left." As for what's next, Johnson isn't sure what exactly should replace this narrow concrete jungle, but he's excited at the prospect of fixing the problem.
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