West End Group Mobilizes
A plan to revitalize 44 blocks of the West End is going into high gear.
On Thursday (May 18, 2006) the group known as POWER (Plainfield Organization for West End Revitalization) held a public meeting to encourage residents to join task forces on various issues affecting the West End.
The Rev. Michael Jones, who is the community director of the group, said the tasks included the following:
- Neighborhood building, with links to city agencies and the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority to address issues such as trash, speeding and developing block associations.
- Arts, including performances and links to assets such as the Plainfield Public Library and the DuCret School of Arts.
- Adult services, encompassing senior assistance and employment.
-Youth services, addressing unemployment for older teens and safe places for young people between the hours of 4 to 9 p.m.
- Economics, including development of the Marino’s site on West Front Street: school construction; and the transit village proposals for the West End.
- Housing, and ways to create more homes around what the city has proposed as a “transit village” in the West End.
On Thursday (May 25, 2006) Homefirst and several related agencies will celebrate the private-public partnership that supports the project. The Wachovia Regional Foundation is contributing a $100,000 planning grant for it.
Our board saw the tremendous potential that exists with this project and we wanted to participate in turning the passion and vision of this group into reality," said Denise McGregor Armbrister, executive director of the foundation. "This type of replicable community revitalization is exactly what the foundation supports."
The Rutgers University National Center for Neighborhoods and Brownfield Redevelopment is another main partner of the project.
The event will be from 11 a.m. to noon in Hannah Atkins Park on Plainfield Avenue.
--Bernice Paglia
On Thursday (May 18, 2006) the group known as POWER (Plainfield Organization for West End Revitalization) held a public meeting to encourage residents to join task forces on various issues affecting the West End.
The Rev. Michael Jones, who is the community director of the group, said the tasks included the following:
- Neighborhood building, with links to city agencies and the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority to address issues such as trash, speeding and developing block associations.
- Arts, including performances and links to assets such as the Plainfield Public Library and the DuCret School of Arts.
- Adult services, encompassing senior assistance and employment.
-Youth services, addressing unemployment for older teens and safe places for young people between the hours of 4 to 9 p.m.
- Economics, including development of the Marino’s site on West Front Street: school construction; and the transit village proposals for the West End.
- Housing, and ways to create more homes around what the city has proposed as a “transit village” in the West End.
On Thursday (May 25, 2006) Homefirst and several related agencies will celebrate the private-public partnership that supports the project. The Wachovia Regional Foundation is contributing a $100,000 planning grant for it.
Our board saw the tremendous potential that exists with this project and we wanted to participate in turning the passion and vision of this group into reality," said Denise McGregor Armbrister, executive director of the foundation. "This type of replicable community revitalization is exactly what the foundation supports."
The Rutgers University National Center for Neighborhoods and Brownfield Redevelopment is another main partner of the project.
The event will be from 11 a.m. to noon in Hannah Atkins Park on Plainfield Avenue.
--Bernice Paglia
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