Some More on Wilmington's WWII Housing-- Part 3

Continued from Oct. 4th.

GREENFIELD TERRACE-- was a 150-unit cinderblock duplexes built along Greenfield Street. To serve the community, federal workers built a strip complex of stores along the 1000 block of Greenfield Street that was completed in 1942. It still stands and today is called Greenfield Plaza.

In 1947, 584 units of Lake Forest and Greenfield Terrace were sold to Veterans Homes, Inc, a non-profit cooperative, as housing for returning veterans.

Lake Village was sold to a private interest in 1955. In 1974, the units were renting for $54 a month and the whole complex was deteriorating. In 1983, it was redeveloped and is now called Garden Lake Estates.

They Had to Live Somewhere. --GreGen