Henry County breaks ground on effort to turn around once-dilapidated neighborhood

Henry County breaks ground on effort to turn around once-dilapidated neighborhood

Henry County officials broke ground this week on a new housing project that will build new homes on a formerly blighted site.Supervisors, county staff and others converged Tuesday at Villa Heights, the name of the upcoming 13-house subdivision in Collinsville. “This project was a long time coming,” said Joe Bryant, the vice chair of the county board of supervisors and its Collinsville representative, who went on to talk about the county’s need f…