NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Efforts to revitalize the old Tidewater Gardens neighborhood in Norfolk are one step closer, as crews broke ground Thursday on Phase 3 of the St. Paul’s Transformation Project .
Now named Kindred , Tidewater Gardens became the first of the city’s three public housing neighborhoods downtown (Tidewater Gardens, Young Terrace and Calvert Square) to be demolished as part of the initiative.
The area will soon be home to Kinship at Kindred, a new mixed-income based housing development. The $85 million project will bring nearly 200 housing units to what was once the Tidewater Gardens public housing complex…