Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore

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Sandtown-Winchester is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a 72 square block community in West Baltimore, known locally as "Sandtown". It is home to over 10,300 residents. The name Sandtown is derived from the trails of sand that dropped from wagons leaving town after filling up at the local sand and gravel quarry back in the day.

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By 1990, Sandtown had become a neighborhood challenged by virtually every urban ill: poverty, unemployment, poor health, low student achievement, illiteracy, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, grimeÉmost significantly, Sandtown suffered an almost paralyzing lack of hope.[1]

In 1994, another Sandtown is emerging. Residents, working in concert with initial partners Mayor Schmoke, the City of Baltimore, The Enterprise Foundation and BUILD, had worked for four years on planning and beginning to implement the nation's first "neighborhood transformation process." Neighborhood transformation differs from past attempts at community revitalization because it (1) addresses all community problems at once, (2) emphasizes redirection and more effective use of existing funds, and (3) involves neigborhood residents as full partners in the design and operation of programs and services.

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  1. ^ Sandtown-Winchester. Live Baltimore Home Center. Retrieved on 2008-05-11.

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