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Residents trying to revitalize Chicopee Village
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Allison Bailey, president of the Association of Chicopee Village Residents, walks on Wednesday down a village street being chewed up by oak trees that have outgrown their green spaces between street and sidewalk. The root systems are disrupting draining and destroying sidewalks, and the association is calling on Hall County government to take action.
Homeowners are trying to breathe new life into one of Hall County’s historic neighborhoods: Chicopee Village. With its rows of red brick bungalows near Atlanta Highway, its company town quirks and a fascinating history going back to the 1920s, the Association of Chicopee Village Residents hopes that nearby development and expanding infrastructure will restore an area struggling with the effects of time and recession-era malaise. They want to start with sidewalks, many of them now broken and choked by trees that weren’t supposed to last a century.