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And the winner is ... Willow Oaks!

The Willow Oaks project has won an Outstanding Planning Award from the N.C. Chapter of the American Planning Association (NCAPA).

The category: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama.

No. It was the "Outstanding Planning: Implementation, Large Community" category.

The $90 million Willow Oaks housing development on McConnell Road, the former site of Morningside Homes. That public housing development became notorious for drugs, crime and the November 3, 1979, Klan-Nazi shootings that killed five anti-Klan protesters.

It was built with a combination of city and federal tax dollars, and private money.

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