NewHolly (formerly Holly Park) is a neighborhood in southeast

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, NewHolly community section of seattlehousing.org (SHA). Accessed online August 25, 2008. It is part of Seattle's South End. Holly Park was built in the 1940s to house defense workers and veterans, but in the 1950s, it was converted into

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under the aegis of the

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(SHA). As the mid-century style of low-income housing projects fell out of fashion, and with its housing stock not faring well over the decades, SHA decided in 1995 to rebuild Holly Park as a mixed-income neighborhood. The resulting neighborhood is now officially NewHolly, described by the SHA as "the first new neighborhood in Seattle in 50 years." NewHolly consists primarily of housing, but also includes a learning center; a branch of

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; several classrooms attached to

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; a Head Start preschool; child care, youth, family, and teen programs; and

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activities and employment programs intended to help residents obtain and secure living-wage jobs. South Seattle Community College's NewHolly Learning Center teaches

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and family literacy, ABE/

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preparation, and a worker retraining program associated with Community Corrections and Protective Service.NewHolly Learning Center
, South Seattle Community College. Accessed online August 25, 2008.

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External links

South Seattle Community College.

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