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Looking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities

Center for Community Progress

The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania. Participating in CRF better equips fellows to advocate for and lead change that addresses systemic property vacancy.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They gave one of best ever community tours I've been on at a conference (" Artists bring flourish to Penn Avenue ," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , " A Transformed Penn Avenue ," Pittsburgh Magazine , Vacancy to Vitality in Pittsburgh’s East End: Penn Avenue Arts Initiative , case study, Metris Arts Consulting ). Purposeful neighborhood revitalization.

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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But hands down, the easiest bread to bake comes from the recipes by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City, first popularized by an article in the New York Times in 2006 --although it took me til 2020 to finally start baking it regularly. Inflation along with rising wage rates have also affected restaurants.