My community of Point Breeze South Philadelphia

The area of point breeze   Alter (near Washington Avenue) to McKean streets, Broad to 27th streets
Population is  25,000 78 percent : white 8percent ; Asian, 11 percent; Latino, 2 percent; other, 1 percent. About 30 percent of the population is under 18.
The community of  Point Breeze was establish in  1895.
Point Breeze was tidy and well-maintained. Its growing  business district. Point Breeze Avenue is filled with restaurants and stores. Over the years, the businesses suffered because of the. Drugs, blight and crime crept in, which made the area the way it is. The population drop 10% during the year of 1990 and 2000, because of school closing . The Point Breeze Performing Arts Center opened at 1717-21 Point Breeze Ave. 20 years ago and has trained a lot of talented dancers. Universal Companies, at 15th and Catharine streets, took on the mission of renovate  South Philly areas in the mid-'90s.  the founder of the universal company Kenny Gamble donate a 100 million to bulid house between south federal west of board to 19^th. this was only the beginning  the nonprofit company envisions eventually constructing about 2,000 homes in the area surrounding its headquarters.
Universal is also in the education business, running William S. Peirce Middle School, 24th and Christian streets, and Edwin M. Stanton Elementary, 17th and Christian, for the School District of Philadelphia. Edwin H. Vare Middle School, 24th Street and Snyder Avenue, has been converted to a charter, also under the company's operation. The organization also has its own charter school, Universal Institute, 801 S. 15th St.
   Celebs of  Point BreezeMiami Heat forward Rasual Butler, from 20th and Manton streets; Anthony Burrell, 22nd and Dickinson streets, is a product of the Point Breeze Performing Arts Center and now is a backup dancer for Beyonc; legendary jazz musicians the Heath Brothers -- tenor saxophonist Jimmy, drummer Albert and bass player Percy; Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, lead vocalist/rapper of Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, from 23rd and Watkins streets; H. Patrick Swygert, president of Howard University, from 15th and Wharton streets
Land marks : The Point Breeze Performing Arts Center and the avenue itself, once a major shopping district.
Types of Architecture: Rowhouses and townhouses
State Senate district: First, Vincent Fumo (D); Eighth, Anthony Williams (D)
State House district: 186th, Harold James (D)
City Council district: Second, Council President Anna Verna (D)
Civic groups and townwatches: Point Breeze Civic Association, Point Breeze Community
The civic association is a non profit organazition which there jobs are to support and help bulid the comminty of point breeze  by servicing the community.