As excitement builds over the long-awaited opening of the new Harbor Bridge, some residents in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest neighborhood said their community has paid the price for progress.
Madeline Chapman has lived in Hillcrest for 70 years. Her family once owned businesses in the area, and she remembers when the neighborhood was a vibrant hub for the city’s Black community. But today, she describes the once bustling streets as quiet, vacant, and overlooked.
“Do it look like they’ve made our neighborhood beautiful or destroyed our neighborhood?” Chapman asked…