As they walked out of the Sunday morning service at Trinity East United Methodist Church, Erma Davis pointed to the grassy field across the street, which the church used for overflow parking and for picnics.
“I don’t think God gave us this land just for us to grow weeds,” Herbert Green remembers her telling him. “I think he gave us the land to do something with it.”
Why not build housing for Third Ward seniors who had spent their lives in the historically Black neighborhood but faced the prospect of being priced out as land values climbed? The community, home to two universities, borders downtown and the Museum District…