czb has jumped into Spring through the City of Norfolk! Joanna Schull and Mel Freeman are working with residents and business stakeholders of four Norfolk neighborhoods: Lamberts Point, Kensington, Park Place, and Villa Heights. Residents are collecting and assembling vast amounts of qualitative and quantitative data, which are being organized and scrubbed by czb’s Karen Pooley, PhD and Virginia Tech’s Ted Koebel, Phd. A community-wide gathering is set for May 22 where the community will begin the process of going through this data and developing their own strategy for market stabilization.
On April 24 czb will be in Geneva, NY to continue working with the City of Geneva’s Office of Neighborhood Initiatives (ONI). ONI is a czb-developed Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative prepared by David Boehlke and Charles Buki. Sage Gerling, LEED AP of czb is working full time Geneva developing resident leadership and is to be joined by czb consultant Marcia Nedland (Fall Creek) and David Boehlke in late April to widen the reach of ONI into the Geneva community.
On May 3 czb will be in the western NY city of Jamestown, NY to present a final report to the City Council on stabilizing and strengthening that community’s housing market. Jamestown is one of the crown jewels of rural NY state, hammered by the exodus of manufacturing jobs. czb’s role was to evaluate the market and prepare a set of recommendations to the City and the Gebbie Foundation.
czb is pleased to announce it has been selected to work in Pittsburgh with the Northside Tenants Association and the Northside Coalition for Fair Housing. Beginning in mid May 2010 czb will work to develop a market-based strategy for neighborhood stabilization.
