A historic Black neighborhood in northeast Oklahoma City will soon be home to a new memorial, honoring the legacies and contributions made.Page Woodson School developers and architects are raising money for a commemorative plaza. The transformation of the John F. Kennedy neighborhood has been a decade in the making. "Some of the pain experienced through the urban renewal processes of the 60s, the commemorative plaza just seemed to be a must," said Gina Sofola, the project manager of Page Woodson Development.Now, developers are planning to spotlight OKC's Black history with a commemorative plaza.Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here."Where the plaza is actually going once existed homes, individual homes," Sofola said.A new landmark is planned to showcase the story of the African American neighborhood built around the historic Page Woodson School in northeast OKC, once Douglass High School."Visitors will be able to come back to the site and when they’re looking down on the ground, they’ll see the house number of each of those houses, see where the front porch was and read about that house and homeowner," said Hans Butzer, the co-director of Butzer Architects and Urbanism. "A place that becomes an imprint, an image when people think of okcMany influential black leaders roamed the school's halls.>> Download the KOCO 5 App"Muhammad Ali walked the halls of this school. Thurgood Marshall was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court. He actually held meetings here when he was working with Ada Lois Sipuel to be admitted to the OU, the first African American to be admitted to law school," Sofola said.Now, architects behind the Oklahoma City National Memorial are designing a plaza to commemorate the contribution and legacies that came out of the neighborhood, lost to history."Everyone is excited about rising out of this, moving beyond the past and building a new future," Sofola said.They need more money before the 2025 project can start."It’s our hope that anybody who cares about education and the way in which education empowers individuals. Those are the kinds of people we hope will rally around the project and look for ways to support it now and into the future," Butzer said.Top HeadlinesLarge flames engulf southeast Oklahoma City business, cause roof to collapseWoman celebrates her 105th birthday! What's her secret to a long happy life?Small Oklahoma town left shocked after a string of shootings over the weekendLawmaker discusses solutions after crime spike within 1-mile area of OKCOklahoma officers blast change to how they can get Ring doorbell video