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Trenton restoration campaign has high hopes for city’s future
Jenna Pizzi | July 25, 2014The team of orange-vested volunteers going door-to-door down every block in the city has completed its survey, pinpointing the vacant or abandoned properties and lots that appear in every neighborhood in Trenton.The Trenton Neighborhood Restoration Campaign, funded through local nonprofit Isles Inc., found in preliminary results that about 1-in-5 buildings in the city are either vacant or abandoned — a number lower than the team had originally expected to see.
“It is still high,” said Iana Dikidjieva, the project manager. “But it is not as frightening as we thought.”
On the map that the team has been using during the project, the vacant lots are colored red while a bright blue denotes those occupied.
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