Terry heights in huntsville alabama

The neighborhood was, as Michelle Jordan says frankly, “on the brink.” Crime was up. Housing prices were down. Neighborhood vitality was down even further.

But through strategy and investment, a transformation is taking place.

“We see Terry Heights as a neighborhood on the comeback,” says Jordan, Planning Director for the City of Huntsville.

The neighborhood, bordered by Holmes Ave., University Ave.

and Pulaski Pike, just west of North Memorial Parkway, has had “challenges,” to use Jordan’s word. The average family income was $22,000, some $30,000 below the City’s average. Only 45 percent of the homes were owner-occupied.

The neighborhood was aging.

That’s beginning to change.

“Investing in Terry Heights has resulted in homeownership, increased home values, overall neighborhood stabilization, a decrease in crime and a return of a safe neighborhood,” Jordan says.

Here’s how it’s happened:

Sonnie Hereford School

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