高地中心

订婚了 voices feature key initiatives in the region to educate community members about the developments underway in our region. 对于本月的专题, 我们与GSEC董事会成员进行了交谈, 德维恩克伦肖, President and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Urban League about the exciting project “高地中心” being led by GSUL. 继续往下读，了解更多.

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大萨克拉门托城市联盟(GSUL), in partnership with 公共 and private investors and the dynamic Del Paso Heights community, is spearheading the development of a long overdue and urgently needed mixed-use commercial/retail, 经济适用房和经济赋权中心 Hub in The Heights (The Hub). 这个非营利组织, place-based initiative is designed to encourage private and 公共 sector investments along the Marysville Boulevard corridor in Del Paso Heights. 这些投资将刺激官方十大网投网址, 就业增长, 新, 负担得起的, multi-family housing and enhance the quality of life in the surrounding community.

Specifically, The Hub is a proposed six-story, nearly 80,000 sq. ft. 多功能建筑面积超过14000平方米. ft. 邻里服务社区/零售/办公空间, 64套经济适用房和老年人住房, 社区聚会空间, 以及一个经济赋权中心. The empowerment center will offer financial education/规划, 工作及职业培训, hud认证的住房咨询, entrepreneurial and business development support and other generational wealth creation opportunities.

How is this project promoting partnership and inclusion within the Greater Sacramento region?

Marysville Boulevard has long been identified as a struggling corridor with grossly unrealized potential. 自从十大网投官方入口的重建项目解散以来, the corridor has suffered from increased disinvestment which has resulted in its present blighted condition and an overabundance of vacant lots and abandoned, 门窗的建筑. 多年来, a number of 公共ly-funded plans and strategies have been developed for Del Paso Heights, including the Del Paso Heights American Institute of Architects Sustainable Design Assessment 团队 Report among many others. 什么都没有实现. Meaningful promotion of partnership and inclusion in the Del Paso Heights community and the Greater Sacramento region at large has not been a hallmark of these failed efforts. 这种情况随着the Heights项目中的Hub而改变.

Hub in The Heights is quite intentionally being guided by GSUL from the outset to promote community, 慈善, 设计中的公私合作, 规划, 融资, building and ultimately the mixed-use occupancy of The Hub. With Del Paso Heights among the most diverse communities in the Greater Sacramento region, ensuring inclusion is fundamental to every aspect of the project from the composition of the design team to the construction workforce to the future small business owners and residential tenants.

你对这个项目的长期愿景是什么? 你认为随着时间的推移，它会如何演变?

在五, ten and for many years down the road we envision a beautifully designed, 第一课, mixed-use building that would be a jewel project in downtown or anywhere else in the region – but it is in Del Paso Heights – where community-owned small businesses are thriving and diverse seniors, young professionals and small families are living well and are well in a safe, 充满活力和高度理想的住宅社区.

Perhaps more significant than the exciting individual benefits of the project over time, is the positive evolution of the Del Paso Heights community over time as a result of the project. The intersection of Marysville Boulevard and Grand Avenue has been identified in 萨克拉门托市 reports as the priority area of focus and the key to success of transforming the entire Marysville Boulevard corridor and surrounding community. The Hub proposed development site is strategically located less than 300 feet from the Marysville/Grand intersection and will provide the catalytic spark needed for a dynamic and long overdue economic and environmental transformation along the currently struggling corridor.

Is there anything you’d like the community to know about this project, 或者以任何方式参与或支持它的成功?

这个高质量的预计成本, mixed-use 负担得起的 housing project is in excess of $30 million. 让高地中心成为现实, 同时保留非营利性所有权, 是否需要创意, 多层次灵活的融资结构. 慈善, 公共, and private sectors can be involved in supporting the success of this project with charitable contributions to our forthcoming capital campaign, offering special construction loan products with favorable terms, in-kind donation of professional and construction services and other unique ideas we may not have even considered. One such unique investment idea we are exploring and hope to bring to fruition is an opportunity for Del Paso Heights community members and other everyday people in the region (and a few wealthier investors) to purchase a small ownership stake in the project – literal community ownership of neighborhood change.

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