Pleasant City, West Palm Beach, Florida

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Pleasant City is a neighborhood in West Palm Beach, Florida north of 15th Street, and east of Dunbar Village and the Florida East Coast Railway. Established in 1905 and incorporated into the city limits in 1912, it was developed for African American workers who were employed at area hotels.

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[edit] Crime

While the neighborhood is plentiful by historic means, it has suffered from urban decay. Pleasant City, and the surrounding communities of North Tamarind and Old Northwood, are identified as low-income because of high levels of poverty. This is also where the majority of the city's African American population lives.

Pleasant City is also known for being the hub of high level drug trafficking to the rest of South Florida. Many chains of organized crime have and are operating in the neighborhood, including nationwide known street gangs such as the Bloods, Crips, and Black Gangster Deciples.[1]

[edit] Redevelopment

MerryPlace, a workforce housing community is under construction.[2] East of Spruce Avenue between 17th to 20th Streets, it's expected to gentrify a significant portion of the neighborhood. Construction started on September, 2006 and the first phase was ready for occupancy a year later.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Slater, Stephanie. "Gangs in Palm Beach County", The Palm Beach Post, 2007. Retrieved on 2009-05-15.
  2. ^ "Workforce project begins to rise in West Palm Beach", South Florida Business Journal, 2007-02-15. Retrieved on 2009-05-15.

[edit] External links

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