The city of Orlando, which is hosting the 9th Annual Purpose Built Communities conference this fall, is home to one of the most dynamic Purpose Built efforts in the country. In some six short years, a broad range of cross-sectoral partners have come together to create measurable results as they work with residents and each … Continue Reading →
The Bayou District in New Orleans celebrated another milestone on November 11: the groundbreaking for a new charter school building at Columbia Parc. When the building opens in January 2019, it will house both elementary and college prep programs (kindergarten through eighth grade). The new school is the next step in the 12-year journey of … Continue Reading →
New Organization works with neighborhood partners to focus on housing affordability, education, health and economic opportunity Atlanta, GA – Atlanta’s Grove Park neighborhood has a new organization dedicated to working with the community for the health and well-being of its residents and their future. The Grove Park Foundation, a newly-formed nonprofit that grew out of … Continue Reading →
Between the University of Tulsa and the city’s busy downtown lies the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood. Its story began when city streetcars, the iconic Route 66 and jobs in the mining and oil industries brought people to this area in the early 1900s. In the 1960’s, “white flight” took hold and middle-income families moved in numbers to … Continue Reading →
Our leadership recently published two pieces in the Huffington post about issues that are critical to our nation’s future – the importance of investing in neighborhoods and how the current education reform debate is missing the point. The first piece was co-authored by our former Executive Board Chair of Purpose Built Communities, Shirley Franklin and … Continue Reading →
Growing Together is the 14th Network Member Nationally and the First in Oklahoma Atlanta, GA – Purpose Built Communities recently welcomed Growing Together, the community quarterback of a neighborhood transformation in Tulsa, OK, as its 14th Network Member nationally. Growing Together’s work is focused on the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood, where they are working with partners to … Continue Reading →
The Financial Times featured Purpose Built communities in a story published on December 12 titled “Fifth of US adults live in or near to poverty” (subscription required) that discusses the increasing inequality in the United States and what poverty looks like across the country. One in five US adults now lives in households either in poverty or … Continue Reading →
The trees are being removed and concrete foundations are set to be poured in November, in the first phase of the revitalization of the Highlander neighborhood in North Omaha. The former site of the 300-unit Pleasantview Homes housing project, and some of the worst crime and poverty rates in the country, this area will be … Continue Reading →
By Melanie Lasoff Levs It is not often you hear of 1,200 families jostling to live in a newly built 64-unit townhome development. But that is roughly the number of application requests received by Hollyhand Property Management, the group that will be managing the Park at Wood Station. Hollyhand Development and Woodlawn Foundation, a nonprofit … Continue Reading →
By Melanie Lasoff Levs NEW ORLEANS — Residents of Columbia Parc, the bustling mixed-income residential community built on what was a blighted housing project, are used to visitors. Sometimes, when people come to pay rent, there are curious groups lingering around the model of the neighborhood in the leasing office. Other times, international visitors speaking … Continue Reading →
