“But revival is in the air, and Herring is leading the way as head of WRK Group and REACH Riverside, a collaborative 10-year, $500 million plus reclamation project. The monumental effort, which WHYY News has been chronicling for the last few years, is the topic of a new half-hour television documentary, ‘Resurrecting Riverside.’…
‘Our charge is really to drive this vision of a holistic revitalization of the Riverside neighborhood,’ Herring said. ‘And so that includes housing, it is education. So that cradle-to-college career pipeline, community health, which includes economic vitality, workforce development, economic development, just everything to be a vibrant, thriving neighborhood, not just surviving.’…
Known as Purpose Built Communities, the redevelopments are funded with a mix of tax credits and public and private investment, plus unrelenting will.”