The document summarizes the agenda and presentations from a meeting of the Vance Avenue Collaborative. It includes reports on a spring festival, a green machine update, and initial design ideas for improving Vance and Foote Homes. It also discusses proposed stops for a historic trail, ideas for retrofitting housing units to address urgent issues like mold and steam as well as longer term goals like reducing water and energy consumption and increasing outdoor spaces.

1. Vance
Avenue
Collabora/ve
Spring
Mee/ng
April
29,
2013
St.
Patrick
Community
Center

2. Today’s
Agenda
• Welcome-­‐
Ken
Reardon
• InvocaBon-­‐
Fr.
Tim
• Spring
FesBval
Report-­‐
Anne
Stubblefield
• Green
Machine
Update-­‐
Antonio
RaciB
• PreservaBon
Plan
and
Urban
Design
Strategy-­‐
Laura
Saija
• Where
We
Go
From
Here?
Rachel
McCook

3. Spring
Fes/val

4. Preparing
the
bus

5. Das
Bus
in
process

6. Almost
ready…

7. Ini/al
Design
ideas
for
the
improvement
of
Vance
&
Foote
Homes
Based
upon
the
signature
projects
idenBfied
in
the
Vance
Avenue
Community
TransformaBon
Plan

8. PresentaBon
by
Sergio
Tarquinio
Sara
Tornabene
Vera
Pavone
Architecture
Graduate
Students,
University
of
Catania,
Sicily,
Italy

9. • IntroducBons
–
Laura
• Vance
Avenue
Historic
Trail
–
Sara
• The
Foote
Homes
Linear
Park
–
Sergio
• Housing
retrofiWng
-­‐
Vera

10. Proposed
stops
for
the
Vance
Avenue
Historic
Trail

11. Proposed
bike
line/trail

12. BEALE
STREET

13. R.
CHURCH
PARK
FIRST
BAPTIST
ON
BEALE

14. CLAYBORN
TEMPLE
ST
PATRICK

15. CLAYBORN
TEMPLE

17. STREET
DIET
FOR
VANCE
-­‐>
OUR
MAIN
STREET!!!!!
AFTER
BEFORE

18. LEWIS
&
SONS
FUNERAL
HOME

20. XHIBIT
UNIT
HISTORY
OF
PUBLIC
HOUSING
&
IMPORTANT
PEOPLE
BEFORE
AFTER

21. FOOTE
HOMES
LINEAR
PARK
BEFORE
AFTER

22. ENRICHED
COMMUNTY
CENTER
COMMUNITY
-­‐RUN
DAY
CARE
(TIME
BANK)
LAUNDRY
ROOM
OTHER?

23. HISTORIC
CORNER
MISSISSIPPI
–
LAUDERDALE
–
GEORGIA

24. CLUB
PARADISE

25. ST
PAUL
HISTORIC
DISTRICT

26. NAACP

27. VICTORIAN
HOUSE
WITH
CARRIAGE
HOUSE

28. FORMER
SITE
OF
R.
CHURCH’S
HOUSE
FORMER
SITE
OF
JULIA
HOOKS’
HOUSE
CELEBRATIVE
MURAL

29. MT
OLIVE
JIFF
–
FORMER
YMCA

30. HUNT
PHELAN
HOUSE

31. AFCSME

32. HOUSING
RETROFIT

33. WHAT
DOES
NEED
TO
BE
IMPROVED?
URGENT
• Steam
in
the
bathroom
and
in
the
kitchen
doesn’t
go
away
• Mold
coming
up
from
the
ground
• Li]le
Acous/c
Isola/on
• Scarce
outdoor
Ligh/ng
MEDIUM
AND
LONG
TERM
• High
consump/on
of
Water
and
Energy
• Lack
of
stewardship
in
the
outdoor
spaces
• Small
size
units
HOUSING

34. WHAT
DOES
NEED
TO
BE
IMPROVED?
URGENT
• Steam
in
the
bathroom
and
in
the
kitchen
doesn’t
go
away
• Mold
coming
up
from
the
ground
• Li]le
Acous/c
Isola/on
• Scarce
outdoor
Ligh/ng
MEDIUM
AND
LONG
TERM
• High
consump/on
of
Water
and
Energy
• Lack
of
stewardship
in
the
outdoor
• Small
size
units

35. Inside
Pain/ng
made
with
plas/c
Plas/c
Sheet
in
the
basement
Steam
/
mold
Water
in
the
ground
Mold
Mold
NOW

36. VENTILATION
Steam
/
mold
Water
in
the
ground
Ven/la/on
Grid
AFTER
VENTILATION

37. WHAT
DOES
NEED
TO
BE
IMPROVED?
URGENT
• Steam
in
the
bathroom
and
in
the
kitchen
doesn’t
go
away
• Mold
coming
up
from
the
ground
• Li]le
Acous/c
Isola/on
• Scarce
outdoor
Ligh/ng
MEDIUM
AND
LONG
TERM
• High
consump/on
of
Water
and
Energy
• Lack
of
stewardship
in
the
outdoor
• Small
size
units

39. WHAT
DOES
NEED
TO
BE
IMPROVED?
URGENT
• Steam
in
the
bathroom
and
in
the
kitchen
doesn’t
go
away
• Mold
coming
up
from
the
ground
• Li]le
Acous/c
Isola/on
• Scarce
outdoor
Ligh/ng
MEDIUM
AND
LONG
TERM
• High
consump/on
of
Water
and
Energy
• Lack
of
stewardship
in
the
outdoor
• Small
size
units

40. WHAT
DOES
NEED
TO
BE
IMPROVED?
URGENT
• Steam
in
the
bathroom
and
in
the
kitchen
doesn’t
go
away
• Mold
coming
up
from
the
ground
• Li]le
Acous/c
Isola/on
• Scarce
outdoor
Ligh/ng
MEDIUM
AND
LONG
TERM
• Lack
of
stewardship
in
the
outdoor
spaces
• High
consump/on
of
Water
and
Energy
• Small
size
units

41. BED
KITCHEN
LIVING
BEFORE

42. BED
KITCHEN
LIVING
AFTER

43. Wooden
Porch

44. WHAT
NEEDS
TO
BE
IMPROVED?
URGENT
• Steam
in
the
bathroom
and
in
the
kitchen
doesn’t
go
away
• Mold
coming
up
from
the
ground
• Li]le
Acous/c
Isola/on
• Scarce
outdoor
Ligh/ng
MEDIUM
AND
LONG
TERM
• Lack
of
stewardship
in
the
outdoor
• High
consump/on
of
Water
and
Energy
• Small
size
units

45. WHAT
NEEDS
TO
BE
IMPROVED?
URGENT
• Steam
in
the
bathroom
and
in
the
kitchen
doesn’t
go
away
• Mold
coming
up
from
the
ground
• Li]le
Acous/c
Isola/on
• Scarce
outdoor
Ligh/ng
MEDIUM
AND
LONG
TERM
• Lack
of
stewardship
in
the
outdoor
• High
consump/on
of
Water
and
Energy
• Small
size
units

46. Foote
Homes
Linear
Park

57. QUESTIONS?
OBSERVATIONS?
THANKS!
sergiotarquinio89@hotmail.it
verapavone@live.it
sa.tornabene@gmail.com

58. Where
Do
we
Go
From
Here?
-­‐ Saturday
May
4th
–
9am
Clean
up
–
Emmanuel
Center
-­‐ Sunday
May
5th
–
12:30pm
–
St
Patrick
Green
Machine
Ribbon
CuWng
-­‐ 2nd
Thursday
in
June,
Review
of
the
Choice
Neighborhood
ImplementaBon
Grant
ApplicaBon