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The $1.8 million Fillmore McAllister Webster and Golden Gate and will have appropriate landscaping and off street parking for 72 cars. The 92 units that will rise within the next nine months will be almost entirely a black endeavor sponsored by the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, a group

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of black masons designed by black architect Kinnard and Silvers and being built by Winston Burdett, a black contractor, Mayor joseph Alioto made the ceremonial address. Then the Mayor and Prince Hall grand master, harry brewer and redevelopment agency director Justin Herman formally broke ground for pictures by

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the press and local civic leaders. Actually, the formal groundbreaking was more than that. It represented some three years of planning and strife by local residents who sometimes fought with but often against officials at City Hall and the redevelopment agency. From the beginning, local residents demanded the

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right to be in on every phase of the operation, even to securing the money that brought the plans to fruition the new housing project and one of the city's most blighted areas will replace ramshackle buildings, some of which date back to the earthquake of 19 6.

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Wait, here's some more shovels, let's all get some shovels coming to some place where we're starting a new housing program and particularly a housing program like this one which originated in the neighborhood which was put together by the people in the community where we have a

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black architect and the black contractor and where we are building low to moderate cost housing to take care of so many who have been displaced in years past. Community participation in these developments is as far as I'm concerned, the absolute indispensable thing without which we will

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never proceed. This is the ninth, groundbreaking and the second this month for low to moderate income housing in the city's redevelopment areas, the 92 units will not only be welcome as sorely needed housing, but they also will be welcome as a major start in the rejuvenation

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of the Fillmore District. Ben Williams, reporting for eyewitness news from the Fillmore District.