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Philadelphia’s historic Kensington neighborhood is known as one of the city’s most dangerous areas. It’s become infamous for drug use and violence. But it wasn’t always this way: Kensington was once a thriving working-class community, home to the Stetson hat company, and factory and shipyard workers.  

As The Trace’s Mensah M. Dean recently reported, Mayor Cherelle Parker made it a priority to bring Kensington back. Last year, on her first day in office, she signed an executive order calling on her top public-safety officials to devise a plan to address the neighborhood’s downturn. The “Kensington Community Revival” would ultimately combine…