- Client: Community Empowerment Association
- Neighborhood: Homewood
- Address: 7120 Kelly Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15208
- Timeline: July 2021 – Ongoing
Adjacent to the Community Empowerment Association’s main building, this flexible, privately-owned public space plaza, compliments the building’s historic quality and highlights the building’s mural which depicts prominent African American figures. Corresponding with Homewood’s initiative to be an African American Cultural Destination, Rashad Byrdsong, Founder & CEO, dreamed of transforming an old parking lot into an event space and outdoor African American heritage museum. The plaza features educational resources mirroring the figures on the murals including QR codes which, when scanned, provide additional history and information.
Project Support
Design services were supported through a Neighborhood Allies Predevelopment grant.
Development support provided by:
- Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Services:
- Landscape design
- Rendering
- Design Charrette
- Urban Analysis
- Conceptual Design
- Schematic Design
- Grant support
Project Outcomes:
- Orgs/ firms with increased capacity: 2
- TA hours provided: 756
- Dollars leveraged: $650,000
Check out a sneak peek of our final design!
The Team:
Tamara Emswiler
Senior Program Manager for Social Impact Design
at Neighborhood Allies
Demi Kolke
Director of Community Investments at Neighborhood Allies
Sean O’Connor
Social Impact Design Fellow at Neighborhood Allies
Le’Taj Tinker
Project Architect at Tink+Design
Dario McPhee
Architectural Associate at Indovina Associates Architects
Will Ulmer
Indovina Associates Architects
