More and more organizations are seeing the value of placemaking and integrating it into their business models. The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has undertaken a placemaking project as part of their Building Healthy Places Initiative. ULI has helped...
Earlier this year, St. Louis REALTORS® and the organization’s charitable arm – the St. Louis REALTORS® Foundation –transformed a vacant piece of land within the St. Louis Greater Ville neighborhood into a community park.
The Three Rivers Association of REALTORS® (IL) used NAR's Placemaking Grant to build a pedestrian path connecting the entire Village of Diamond.
Written by Rachel Banner, Senior Program Manager at the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) As we all know, parks are essential to a vibrant community and research shows that when people have a park within a 10-minute walk of home,...
Written by Zachary Churney, Economic and Community Development Liaison, MIBOR REALTOR® Association The fundamental idea behind placemaking is that we build communities in which people want to live, work and thrive. These spaces become places where...
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Written by Courtney Rudat, Community Outreach Coordinator, Greater Lansing Association of REALTORS® (GLAR) REALTORS® don’t just sell homes, they help build communities. And Greater Lansing agents are proving this right one park at a time. The...
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Written by: Ida Seitter, Director of Development, Columbus REALTORS® It is easy to overlook the Milo-Grogan (MG) neighborhood in downtown Columbus (OH). With its seemingly deserted post-industrial landscape and aging homes, it stands in stark...