Glenview
Glenview is a designated community north of Ashfield and Downtown Greenfield.
History
Glenview was founded as ashfield in 1792. It never saw any growth untill the early 1920s after the port of Greenfield was built. The port brought in a huge population boom throughout the 1920s. Ashfield was quickly built up and grew into glenview, it started in the western section with the grand santa cabeza library on the former main road into ashfield. Some larger apartment buildings and stores were built around it and so the growth began. The former streetcar line was built into the eastern section and a few bigger apartments and shops were built along the road. The waterfront became a large park for all the rich residents in the area.
In 1942 the city of Ashfield was incoorpirated to the city of Greenfield, and now glenview was apart of Greenfield. People started calling the area glenview after a major activist Alexis Glendale, who stopped the area from being completely rebuilt into a big social housing development.
The area saw major growth throughout the 50s and 60s with a bunch of brand new bigger apartment buildings replacing the older smaller duplexes. However after the waterfront park was replaced by an interstate the area started a fast decline of people moving from the city to the brand new suburbs. The southern section was also cut off by an interstate and completely disconnected from ashfield. Many of the apartments and stores were abandoned and/or destroyed. Ashfield got a huge sum of money during the 60s, but glenview was barely touched apart from a new major road cutting off the eastern and western section, with the first office building being built on it, the former main road was cut off and now a smaller road, all the traffic now went onto the new road and many businesses went out of business after that.
During the 70s and 80s a lot of older, almost empty apartments were replaced by big new office buildings and stores along the main roads with the addition of a subway line near the main road and the highway. A large new mall was built in a hurry to attract more people to the area. older wall to wall stores were replaced by fast food joints and strip malls to make the area car-friendly. The area nexto the interstate was rebuilt into warehouses and office buildings. These decades were the worst for the town with many of the buildings being almost completely empty,
The 2000s saw a turnaround point for both ashfield and glenview. As millenials started moving back into the city, many empty lots were redeveloped into smaller apartment buildings and eventually larger apartment complexes towards the main roads. With the growth of young rich people many of the older stores were replaced with fancy new coffee shops, book shops and record stores. In the 2010s a huge part of empty land near the railway track was built into a large bullseye with many well-known businesses moving into the complex.
An edit in the zoning laws of the Glenview area stating that taller and bigger mixed use apartments could now be built saw huge development towards glenview.
While the new redevelopment is nice older residents of the area stopped new projects like a new bike path connecting the library to the waterfront, or a big apartment complex replacing the warehouses near the freeway. Though, even with these activists the area is still one of the most progressive and developing areas in Greenfield, with the new 5 over 1s, bike lanes and transit now going into the area.
Notable builds
-Santa Cabeza Library
-Glenview Galleria
Transit
Highway
-Name Highway connections