Our Views: ; Reviving Life in the East End; the City Must Work On Crime If It Is to Attract Businesses Back

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FLAT land near the state Capitol should be a valuable commodity in an area known as the Mountain State. Yet the East End continues to be plagued by depopulation. The Charleston Urban Renewal Authority could not offer enough incentives to the owners of Parkway Supermarket in St. Albans to open a grocery in the 1300 block of Washington Street East.

Now the Gazette has reported on East End resident Jovella Brown's travails as she spends $60 plus $8 in cab fare to do laundry for her family, which includes six children. There are 35,000 coin-operated laundries in the nation; none in the East End.

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Our Views: ; Reviving Life in the East End; the City Must Work On Crime If It Is to Attract Businesses Back

The combination of the fear of crime and the dwindling populat...

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