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Article: https://madison365.com/community-turns-out-for-lunas-grand-opening/

“The City of Madison has provided seed money to a few efforts to alleviate the Allied Drive food desert over the last few years, including support for Luna’s, which also used federal Small Business Association loans and donations from the community to open.”

Article: https://www.cityofmadison.com/news/madison-names-movies-in-the-park-after-sina-davis

 

“Given Ms. Davis’s extraordinary commitment to building community and her special involvement with Movies in the Park, the City has named the series the Sina Davis Movies in the Park Program as a tribute to her.” Movies can been seen at Allied Park when the program is running.

Article: https://madison365.com/allied-welcomers-connect-community-health-in-allied-drive-neighborhood/

“The Allied Wellness Center celebrates 15 years of community service this July. Since its inception, the center has been a staple for the Allied Dunn’s Marsh neighborhood on Madison’s near west side. The center provides bus passes, counseling support, spiritual guidance and health services for one of Madison’s most densely populated neighborhoods”

Article: https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/neighborhoods/allied-dunns-marsh-in-the-midst-of-a-rebirth-after-years-of-decline/article_140142c2-cbbe-54c8-9aa7-b54bc5eddba4.html

In the mid-2000s, the city took several steps to revitalize the neighborhood, including spending $1.5 million to buy and redevelop a shuttered grocery store and $8.5 million to buy and redevelop the 11.5-acre Revival Ridge block.

“It has changed a lot,” said Charles N. Williams, 60, who has lived in Allied since 1987. “It used to be a lot of times people wouldn’t walk the streets of Allied. Now it’s clean. … It changed quickly, too.”