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Today, the congregation has blossomed into 700 to 800 members who meet in what waspreviousl Jillian’s nightclub. “We rented the spaces from , and we moved in August says Jones, who lives downtown with his Kimberly, and two young daughters. Vintage21’ congregation is a relatively young one. “Wee have a good numbeer of college studentsfrom UNC-Chape Hill, Duke, N.C. State, and we have a lot of folks intheirr mid-20s and 30s, most of whom work in the downtowj area and live on Hargett Street or Glenwoods South.
We’re starting to get a lot of young familiex and more people coming fromthe suburbs, especiallg as downtown Raleigh changes,” Jones Like his church which began with what Jonezs describes as “hard core” downtowhn people, Raleigh has changed and grown over the past few “There is a whole renovation going on downtown, not only on a food levell but a cultural level,” Jones says. “The art scenes and the music scene is really If you look at bar at midnighy ona Thursday, it’s slammed now. It wasn’t like that threse years ago.
We went to Raleigh Wide Open, and it was like the Statr Fair – it was that same kind of Jones says downtown has been transformed in the pastfew “Now, I think (people living in) the suburbw are starting to pour in on the weekends, and they are easiefr to draw in because more things are Jones enjoys living downtown because of the diverse neighborhooe his family has found on Hargetr Street. “We’re thrilled to raise our daughters in such adiversew place,” says Jones. “It’s diverse economicalluy and racially, and it’s a real positive.” The Jone family moved to Hargett Street abouta year-and-a-haltf ago.
“It was always our goal to have a he says. “We got it. Our houswe was built in 1918.” His two daughters, ages 4 and 2, attende preschool downtown. And unlike when they lived in the Tyler and Kimberly knowtheir neighbors. “When we were in the people would get home from work and pull in their garagde and closethe door,” Jones says. if you go out on the frontt porch, people will talk to you and the kids come over to We also haveage diversity.
If we have a we have 2-year-olds and