Southside in Greensboro to break ground

Southside, a new urbanist redevelopment of a Victorian neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now cleared to break ground in early spring of 2000. Designed by Tom Low of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and developed by Nate Bowman, Southside will add 25 to 30 single houses and about 50 townhomes to the once fashionable 10-acre neighborhood. Low’s plan restores the connectivity of the street grid and adds a square in front of the neighborhood’s abandoned church. Bowman notes that much of the credit for Southside should go to the city of Greensboro. “They spent 4-5 years, using the power of eminent domain, to clean up and preserve what was worth preserving,” he says.