(RECAP: Newport News city officials are holding a series of kick-off meetings next week to collect input from residents on how to improve the neighborhood surrounding Ridley Place public housing complex, stemming from a $500,000 plotting grant from HUD. The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative grant was awarded to the city in late June. It is awarded on the condition that a locality will seek suggestions from people in the community on how to transform the neighborhood. The funds will be used to start the plotting process on how to make and finance improvements in the area of 39th Street south to the harbor between Interstate 664 and Marshall Avenue.)

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