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Ramona was a burnt-out slum for at least four years until October 24th, 1968 when a Real estate development team made plans to completely rebuild a part of Ramona, it would include 136 new suburban houses that would appeal to young families to move in so the east section would thrive again. The current inhabitants of that area agreed and two months later the remaining houses (which most of them were boarded up) were already demolished along with the streets. And the brand new roads would be laid out. It was at the beginning of 1969 that the neighborhood would be officially ready to be built on. The planning remained the same as of grid planning, though small changes were made so it wouldn't look as if the highway was abruptly cutting up the neighborhood. During the 1970s there was a big land boom, multiple apartments along with a new Bowling alley and retail were built after the houses came. The east part and the main avenues have somewhat been patched up. The neighborhood remains walkable and at least safer than before, but the core still remains run down. | Ramona was a burnt-out slum for at least four years until October 24th, 1968 when a Real estate development team made plans to completely rebuild a part of Ramona, it would include 136 new suburban houses that would appeal to young families to move in so the east section would thrive again. The current inhabitants of that area agreed and two months later the remaining houses (which most of them were boarded up) were already demolished along with the streets. And the brand new roads would be laid out. It was at the beginning of 1969 that the neighborhood would be officially ready to be built on. The planning remained the same as of grid planning, though small changes were made so it wouldn't look as if the highway was abruptly cutting up the neighborhood. During the 1970s there was a big land boom, multiple apartments along with a new Bowling alley and retail were built after the houses came. The east part and the main avenues have somewhat been patched up. The neighborhood remains walkable and at least safer than before, but the core still remains run down. | ||
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== Cultural protests == | == Cultural protests == | ||
Due to the recent population boom in Greenfield, Ramona has been going through many economical changes, even after the 1970s when the western portion was entirely rebuild. The changes starting as early as the 1980s when they redeveloped the riverfront into new high end apartments. during the 1980s till the early 2000s many homes and businesses were taken down to be replaced with larger and fancier homes, apartments and businesses. In the late 2000s a new 5 storey apartment complex was built on the eastern edge of the district. Causing public outrage and protests, these protests are still going on to this day since the gentrification of surrounding neighbourhoods of downtown greenfield has not stopped since. The economical side also changed, from a lower class neighbourhood in the 1980s to a high end upper class neighbourhood now. Businesses were replaced with fancier chain stores, such as the new high end Golden Groceries store replacing an old family owned supermarket, a new Nacho Shack replacing an old repair store and other chains such as burgerrshot, Sucre Cafe and Metrosub. | |||
Due to all this homes have reached an all time high of generally being 1 million+ dollar homes. | |||
These changes have pushed cultural heritage and families out of the formerly mexican neighbourhood of ramona into poorer suburbs like westwood. | |||
Protests are trying to stop the gentrification of older neighbourhoods and want the city council to do something about the rapidly raising property prices. | |||
== Notable builds == | == Notable builds == | ||