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Sales of abandoned schools produce eyesores in Oklahoma City neighborhoods

BY STEVE LACKMEYER Business Writer slackmeyer@oklahoman.comJust a decade ago, Dunbar Elementary was on the list for a MAPS for Kids makeover that would have added to the revival of the long-neglected John F. Kennedy neighborhood east of downtown. The renaissance for the John F. Kennedy neighborhood began in 2004 with one family with ties to the once-proud black neighborhood buying an empty lot from the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority at NE 7 and Bath and building a large new home. That property was across from Dunbar, and within a few years, the school was surrounded by homes built and owned by families returning to an area their elders fled years earlier.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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