The six-story, $11 million Temple Place Apartments will house 40 one- and two-bedroom apartments for low- and moderate-income residents when it’s completed in 2015.
In this video, Carol Naughton, Senior Vice President of Purpose Built Communities, speaks about the intersector collaboration that revitalized East Lake Meadows.
“Trust facilitates, solidifies and increases the performance” of collaborative efforts, observe the authors of new research on trust in cross-sector collaborations.
As we’ve seen in our cases, the strongest projects are those that capitalize on the strengths of each partner and are forged on a shared vision of success.
The “Community Revitalization Project,” as it was called, was charged with identifying what, if anything, industrial cities could do to help themselves in light of a struggling economy.
“We must tackle complex, ever-changing problems, and pursue solutions that are neither obvious nor stable."
While the possibilities for revitalizing Detroit are nearly endless, Write A House focused on one thing – matching writers with houses – and enlisted partners who shared that vision.