THE CITY OF NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE MAYOR NEW YORK, NY 10007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 13, 2016 CONTACT: pressoffice@cityhall.nyc.gov, (212) 788-2958 MAYOR DE BLASIO ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PUBLIC DESIGN COMMISSION NEW YORK––Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced Justin Moore as Executive Director of the Public Design Commission. Justin Moore has […]
We happy to announce that we have closed on the purchase of a Renew Indianapolis (Indy Land Bank) building and lot on 30th Street and Broadway in our Mapleton Fall Creek community, just one block away from our existing Park Garden. We will renovate the building and use a portion of the vacant lot as […]
We’ve had a busy year at Urban Patch! National conferences, the Sunflower Mural, rain gardens, walnut harvests, kicking off the Redbud Project and more! But wait, there’s more — we have another addition to the Urban Patch! We closed last week on a great 2-family home with great bones in our target ‘patch’ in the Mapleton-Fall Creek […]
Inspiring urban neighborhoods is a family affair By Erika D. Smith “It really started with this picture of my grandfather.” Justin Moore fished around in the pocket of his suit jacket for his smartphone. He tapped the screen a few times, and found a black and white photo of a distinguished-looking, balding black man. The […]
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 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 […]
Urban Patch is proud to announce that we will be leading TWO sessions at the upcoming 2013 National Preservation Conference in Indianapolis. We will lead a field session in our own Mapleton Fall Creek community highlighting the role of historic preservation in community redevelopment and partnerships. New Partnerships Re-Boot the Inner City Older neighborhoods that have suffered long-term economic and […]
We did several energy-saving sustainability upgrades as part of our Delaware Project restoring a vacant historic home. The most important green upgrade, with biggest bang for the buck, was to better insulate the building. Many older homes, while well constructed, have no insulation in the walls. Installing costly energy-efficient new HVAC systems would do no good without […]