Peppi Wilson, 60, remembers the “glory years” of the Chatham Park Village Cooperative.
He grew up at the property playing hide-and-seek on the verdant grounds, sledding down small hills that once seemed big. Residents across the 23-acre property knew him, and Wilson recalls some yelling at him to “get off our grass!” There was “a sense of community,” Wilson said. “People cared.”
After a handful of years away, Wilson moved back to the co-op around 2005 when his mother got sick. But the co-op wasn’t the same. Wilson said he no longer felt the sense of community that he remembered fondly from his childhood…