Should local governments spend money to help fix up historic Black communities?

Close to where I live there is a proposal to extend the Turnpike through a historic Black community and the community is fighting it. I recently met a gentleman here where I live in The Villages who is trying to help prevent the road from going through there.

My initial reaction was to preserve the community, and I think the state should spend money improving it. If the road does go through it, I think the state should help move everyone, plus a lot extra to ensure these people can live with a roof over their heads the rest of their life, and create a new community nearby, plus let them opt to live anywhere in the state with low or no property taxes, that sort if thing.

Here is an article https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0720/It-was-one-of-South-s-earliest-free-Black-towns.-Now-it-fights-a-highway about the case where I live.

I’m interested in your opinions and any stories you know of with similar situations.

The way I understand the proposed road development, I see what seems to be a simple alternative, but maybe the alternative has a reason that it won’t work.