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Evans Howard Place gets a memorial — in the Brentwood shopping center that replaced it
Before it was a shopping center, the area currently occupied by the Promenade at Brentwood was known as Evans Howard Place. In 1997, developers bought out the homes that had kept middle-class Black families thriving there for generations.
In 1998, Brentwood officials quietly commemorated a plaque set on a small rock near the shopping center’s exit. The rock was so out of the way — tucked between a lighting store and liquor market — that Allison Reed didn’t know it even existed until efforts to
In 1998, Brentwood officials quietly commemorated a plaque set on a small rock near the shopping center’s exit. The rock was so out of the way — tucked between a lighting store and liquor market — that Allison Reed didn’t know it even existed until efforts to