Old Hill is one of the seventeen neighborhoods of

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. It is composed, almost entirely, of Victorian buildings overlooking Springfield's Metro Center. At the start of the twenty-first century, the Old Hill neighborhood struggled to maintain its vitality. Drugs and traffic had become a problem. Despite that, Old Hill had neighborhood groups and committed residents, numerous religious organizations, supportive neighborhood businesses, and

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, all of which banded together to revitalize the neighborhood. Currently, crime is down 50%, and many of Old Hill's "

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" Victorians are being restored.

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