Sacramento Escorts: EDITORIAL: Oak Park gets a jolt of needed new soul
EDITORIAL: Oak Park gets a jolt of needed new soul
Oct 24, 2009 (The Sacramento Bee – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
OAPK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — In struggling Oak Park, the 40 Acres complex at 35th and Broadway marked the beginning of big hopes for a neighborhood renaissance.
A coffee shop, an art gallery, a theater, a bookstore, a barbershop and upstairs apartments opened in 2003 in the newly renovated 1915 Woodruff Hotel, a building that had once been home to drugs and prostitution.
The corner coffee shop was a key part of that renaissance, bringing unity to the neighborhood.
It was a place, like a post office or drugstore (but better), where people could gather easily and regularly. A place where everybody over time could know just about everybody and newcomers always were welcome.