After 50 Years, A Black Woman Developer Is Reclaiming Land Taken From Her Community

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For more than fifty years, a lot in North Portland sat empty after the city seized it from the Black community through eminent domain. 

Anyeley Hallová is the one finally building something on it.

As founder and CEO of Adre, a Black women-owned, Portland-based B-Corp, Hallová is developing that 1.7-acre site into 20 homeownership opportunities, 85 affordable rental units, and

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