Columbia's neighborhoods surrounding North Main Street are in different stages of decay or gentrification. Overgrown, boarded up houses and run down apartments may now find themselves near new developments or renovated housing stock. These are new homes built on the 5200 block of Randall Avenue.
Erik Campos
The State
Columbia's neighborhoods surrounding North Main Street are in different stages of decay or gentrification. Overgrown, boarded up houses and run down apartments may now find themselves near new developments or renovated housing stock. These are abandoned aparments on Ridgewood Avenue.
Erik Campos
The State
Columbia's neighborhoods surrounding North Main Street are in different stages of decay or gentrification. Overgrown, boarded up houses and run down apartments may now find themselves near new developments or renovated housing stock. These are new homes in a development called The Arboretum.
Erik Campos
The State
Eau Claire Community Council Executive Director Henry Hopkins, left, and Alvin Hinkle walk past the Shops of North Main Plaza as part of a media tour.
Jeff Blake
The State
Henry Hopkins, director of Eau Claire Community Council discusses the progress and work to be done in the North Columbia.
Lindsay Semple
The State
Tracey and Bert "Hap" Ely at their home in an Eau Claire neighborhood. Both tutor and contribute to Project Read, a state-wide education program.
Lindsay Semple
The State
Tracey Ely tutors a student at her home in the Eau Claire neighborhood.
Lindsay Semple
The State
Ish Tate and her mother Valeria F. Boykin-Tate outside their Gonzales Avenue home in Columbia.
Gerry Melendez
The State
Jean Bullock takes care of left to right, Tamia, Kimberly and Hunter in the infant room at Epworth Children's Home and Children's Garden, a daycare for homeless children located at College Place United Methodist Church on Colonial Dr.
Tim Dominick
The State
Lead teacher Hilda Villegas leads the children at Epworth Children's Home and Children's Garden, a daycare for homeless children located at College Place United Methodist Church on Colonial Dr., in a song before reading time.
Tim Dominick
The State