czb is partnering with Virginia Tech’s econometric-savant Ted Koebel, PhD and former SYP genius and now czb CORE team member Joanna Schull to work in four Norfolk, VA neighborhoods towards a revitalized market.
David Boehlke will lead the strategy development work, Baltimore native Mel Freeman will spearhead the capacity building work, Joanna Schull will oversee the visioning components and design the project’s operating rhythm, and Karen Beck Pooley, PhD will develop the indicator sets for baselines and progress and build the neighborhood taxonomy. Students from ODU and Hampton will join in the work and help steer the project in substantive ways.
The four neighborhoods – Park Place, Lambert’s Point, Kensington, and Villa Heights – will be working together with czb from January to November in intense visioning and engagement work and capacity building work to co-create a viable reinvestment strategy.
Norfolk, VA is a great new client and the Park Place project represents an exciting learning opportunity for czb.
