Chinatown

Chinatown is a designated community area on the south side of Greenfield, California. It is located south of Downtown Greenfield. Chinatown is the historic chinese core of Greenfield.

History

Chinatown Was settled in the late 19th century after a lot of chinese immigrants moved into the Greenfield Bay Area. It used to be a low-income area that covered most of the southern shore, untill the mid-20th century when half of chinatown was demolished to make way for interstate INTERSTATE NAME. This caused a lot of displacement in the chinese community and many of these moved into the nearby cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

In the 60s the southern section of downtown was demolished for parking lots and garage, so was a part of chinatown. Tho due to a lot of activism a brand new development was built on the western section of chinatown. It included a shopping center, a 10 storey office building, a plaza and multiple parking garages.

In 1992 Chinatown was in a state of disrespair. Unfortunately the 1992 earthquake hit and 4 buildings collapsed. A fire started and 5 more burned down. The Chinatown Plaza partly collapsed aswell and the area was in disrepair for months after the earthquake, as the city prioritized other districts.

Chinatown never really grew after the 90s and slowly shrinked untill the early 2010s when greenfield grew in size and many new 5 over 1s were built along the southern shore of downtown.

Notable builds

-Chinatown Plaza

Transit

Highway

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