Written by Vicki Stout | For The Tennessean
FRANKLIN — Angela Gentry grew up in Williamson County’s Hard Bargain neighborhood and longed to move back to raise her children.
Generations of families have called the four-block neighborhood that borders New Highway 96 West in Franklin home since the years after the Civil War.
The Hard Bargain neighborhood has 120 homes, four of which are new construction, with a fifth in progress and ground broken for No. 6.
Hard Bargain Mt. Hope Redevelopment has plans for many more generations of families to make their home in this area near downtown. The grass-roots nonprofit organization is dedicated to preserving the historic neighborhood through restoring existing homes, building new ones and providing beautification efforts to the neighborhood.
Gentry knew this is where she wanted to replant her roots.
“I grew up here my entire life,” she said of the neighborhood. We lived on Glass Street; my dad still lives here,” said the single mother of two sons, Isiah, 13, and Donovan, 10.
