Re-Booting the Inner City: New Partnerships for Historic Preservation October 31, 2013, 8:15am-1:15pm Urban communities often suffer from the demolition of historic structures and incompatible development. How do preservation-based strategies play out in the communities they are designed to improve? You’ll hear from residents in Indianapolis’ Mapleton-Fall Creek area on the innovative partnerships and grassroots strategies […]
Urban Patch’s Justin Moore presented the social enterprise’s work at this year’s We Are City SUMMIT in Indianapolis. The talk focused on the multiple scales of urban strategies as well as varied approaches to community-based development. Following the event our work was recognized in the local press, including an interview with Joyce Moore by Jessica Key […]
In 1954 the U.S. Congress funded the Board of Fundamental Education, an innovate public-private partnership based in Indiana, New York, and Texas. The document excerpt below gives a summary of their model — one that we might consider recovering for the challenges that we still face today. Click on the images to enlarge. […]
We’ve made great progress on the new community mural at Fall Creek Gardens. Artist and Urban Patch Creative Director John Moore did the mural design and is leading the installation work. The rest of the Moore family is helping out day and night to help make this community vision a reality! The outlines are all […]
Urban Patch co-founder Joyce Moore was interviewed about the Indy Land Bank indictment by Kara Kenny of RTV Channel 6. (The segment starts at 2:45 into the video link below). Over the course of our work investing in our community and building Urban Patch we, like many others, ran into issues with the Indy Land […]
It’s been a busy week at Urban Patch! Aside from responding to the Indy Land Bank scandal, we closed on the purchase of a “double” residential building in Midtown Indy’s Watson Park area. The neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 and is home to many beautiful single family and multifamily homes. The mix […]
The Indy Redbud Project is a community identity + environment proposal. We will start by taking a vacant lot (or lots) in the Mapleton Fall Creek area and planting a grove of native redbud trees. Over time we would engage a number of partners from neighborhood associations and development corporations to individual homeowners and environmental […]
Urban Patch has helped to start the Saint Nicholas Miracle Garden in Harlem. During Earth Week the group of community members received their approval to turn a vacant city-owned lot into one of the city’s newest Green Thumb sites, and had their first work day cleaning up the garden. The site is small (like everything in […]
We stumbled upon this video of art dealer Jeffrey Deitch and artist/planner Theaster Gates and found it compelling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34aIZG-_JM Related: Rebuild Foundation
