Most shows visit a neighborhood. This one moves in.
Newground: A City in Motion is a documentary series about the real, on-the-ground work of transforming a community from the inside out. Instead of parachuting in for a single episode, the show spends an entire season embedded in one neighborhood: in the meetings, the setbacks, and the incremental wins that add up to visible change.
Each episode follows one compelling figure deeper into a place and its people. But where other shows send a reluctant outsider, Newground's host runs toward this work through the lens of a local educator. What you watch, episode over episode, is someone genuinely engaging, and a street slowly opening up to a new ground.
Coleman Park is more than a neighborhood. It's a living story of resilience, leadership, education, faith, investment, and community. Fifteen years after serving here as principal of Roosevelt Middle School, Dr. George L. Lockhart walks back in to ask a simple question: what has become of the neighborhood we worked so hard to build? Through honest conversations with residents, educators, business owners, faith leaders, and community partners — with Tamarind Avenue as the season's spine — NEWGROUND explores the past, celebrates the present, and imagines the future of one of Palm Beach County's most historic communities.
Not top-down reform. Community investment, relationship by relationship.
Show up, stay put
A season embedded in one place, earning trust in living rooms, church halls, and school pickup lines before a single plan is drawn.
Invest in people first
The same model that took D- and F-rated schools to A's and B's within a year, built on community investment and relationships, not mandates.
Make change visible
Small wins compound on camera: a cleaned lot, a reopened storefront, a street that feels different by the finale than it did in episode one.
Dr. George L. Lockhart
Former principal of Roosevelt Middle School (and local pastor), Dr. Lockhart is an educator with a track record most reformers only promise: taking low-performing, D- and F-rated schools to A and B ratings within a single year, built on community investment and relationship-building, not top-down reform.
Fifteen years after helping shape a generation in Coleman Park, he returns to the streets where he served, bringing the same model out of the classroom and into the community, at the scale of a whole neighborhood. He isn't a reluctant guide in unfamiliar territory. This is the work he runs toward.
Season One
Walk the street with us.
For screenings, community partnerships, press, and updates on Season One in Coleman Park — reach out. The street is opening up; there's room to be part of it.