HUNTSVILLE, AL – The announcement didn’t come gradually or with the drama that accompanied the rollout of the top four teams participating in the college football playoff, but for the city’s civic leaders the news was just as exciting and filled with suspense for the future.
Huntsville is one of four cities nationwide to receive a Choice Neighborhood Planning grant. The Rocket City joined Rome, Ga.; Trenton, N.J.; and Omaha, Neb.; in receiving the award.
The cities were notified in September and Huntsville officials unveiled plans Thursday on how the $1.3 million grant will be used.
“We’ll renovate west of downtown and around Butler Terrace,’’ said Scott Erwin, the city interim director of community development.
Plans call for new affordable housing, commercial opportunities and entertainment options.
Erwin said the blueprints are designed to renovate “distressed public housing’’ and improve blight in a one-mile radius around Butler Terrace, which was built in the early 1950s. The area is from Bob Wallace and Memorial Parkway west to Triana Boulevard and I-565.
Read more at Huntsville Business Journal
HUNTSVILLE, AL – HUD notified the City of Huntsville and the Huntsville Housing Authority on Sept. 19th 2019 that their application for a Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant had been selected for an award, which was one of only four such awards nationally.
Camiros will serve as Planning Coordinator to formulate a comprehensive Transformation Plan for the “Mill Creek Neighborhood”, which is an area immediately east of downtown Huntsville that includes the Butler Terrace Apartments public housing site and the surrounding neighborhood.
This award will be Camiros’ ninth Choice Neighborhoods project. We are currently serving as the Planning Coordinator for the Fairfield Innovation Plan in Huntington, WV and the Downtown/East Side Choice Neighborhoods Plan for Chicago Heights, IL.
We would like to congratulate the Huntsville Housing Authority and the City of Huntsville for this momentous award and incredible opportunity for your community. We are excited to work together to help bring positive change to the Mill Creek neighborhood and the Butler Terrace Apartments.
Read the City of Huntsville’s announcement of the Choice Neighborhood grant award at: “Choice and planning our future neighborhoods”
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Develop a storefront improvement program. Recruit a credit union or minority-owned bank. Facilitate home repairs and improvements.
And ensure that future development does not displace residents.
Those are some of the recommendations laid out in the South Division Corridor Plan, a 170-page document that lays out a vision for future growth along a 3 mile stretch of Division Avenue between Wealthy and 28th streets. Last week, the Grand Rapids Planning Commission held a public hearing on the plan and sent it to the city commission for review.
Read more at: “Plan lays out new vision for aging Grand Rapids corridor“
Envision Comanche, led by Camiros, is a Master Plan project
to transform Comanche Park, a Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa (THA)
property, into a mixed-use, mixed-income community while ensuring a strict
one-for-one replacement of all existing apartments. Envision Comanche is not
just a plan but a guide for community growth, action and empowerment. The plan
not only seeks to provide better housing, but to also create additional
education, health and training opportunities and ensure improved transportation
and park spaces to the residents of Comanche Park, and its neighbors.
The Envision Comanche planning team participated in the
annual summer block party to receive direct feedback from residents regarding
three draft site plan diagrams of what a transformed Comanche Park could look
like. The various elements of the site diagrams which include a range of
housing types and age-separated parks for example were informed by community
feedback received at previous planning meetings, discussions, and events. Residents
were also given the opportunity to create their own site plan using monopoly
pieces to represent different building types.
Watch the news clip from KTUL-ABC 8 highlighting the event.
