FORT PIERCE FOLKS
since awarded $92.2 million to more than 1,550 organizations,
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including about $2 million to Lincoln Park since 2017.
In the past two years, the Fort Pierce grants department
has also invested nearly $200,000 in repairs to 31 homes in
Lincoln Park. Scott’s office is planning to set up a community
land trust that would help low- and moderate-income
families buy homes.
She sees Lincoln Park as a rich historical and cultural
resource, having been the home of celebrated author Zora
Neale Hurston and the Highwaymen landscape painters.
She says all of Fort Pierce will benefit from higher property
values in Lincoln Park.
Scott serves on the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative
Committee, which is raising funds to restore and
reopen the Lincoln Theatre on Avenue D. The historic
theater, one of only four in the country owned by African-
Americans, could once again become the neighborhood’s
main entertainment venue, she says.
In fact, Scott sees all of Avenue D as becoming a true
Main Street, a retail thoroughfare lined with busy shops
and restaurants.
“I’d like Avenue D to be the thriving economic center of
Lincoln Park,” she says. “I want to be able to go to a show,
buy some clothing, have a nice dinner, get some ice cream.”
After experiencing Miami and Atlanta, Scott says she’s
happy with small-town life. She loves the fact that the
beach is just a 10-minute drive from her home.
“I don’t see myself going anywhere else to live,” she
says. “Every other city seems to be too busy with too much
traffic. I’m spoiled. After living here for three-and-a-half
years, I can’t wait in traffic for 20 minutes to get to work!”
Selling Real Estate on the
Treasure Coast since1973
Scott, a Fort Pierce native who grew up in Miami and lived in Atlanta, says
small-town life is for her.
Joyce L. Calvert
OWNER/BROKER
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