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Promote Shared Community Experiences

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Promote building relationships and shared experiences in the community to promote personal safety and security.
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Laser Light Shows

Have laser light show projected from tops of downtown Peoria buildings (similar to what they do in Hong Kong) with music and narration. It would attract a lot of attention to Peoria. Businesses could fund it in return for mention of their business...
tourism

Develop a Southern Gateway Neighborhood Center at Adams Street & Western Avenue

Peoria, Illinois
Develop this intersection as a major neighborhood center.
infill land-use infrastructure housing street building

Mr. Dad's Father's Club (Free Plants)

Chicago, Illinois
This will help build our community and show we are here to stand together. This will be a wonderful day to give back. Some plants will be donated to the Garden on 51st Calumet and the rest will be donated to the community on behalf of our Mr. Dad...
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Forge Ahead

Columbus, Ohio
Forge Ahead is a community-driven plan for building world-class public transportation in Columbus. Columbus is a growing, thriving place and each citizen is working to contribute to the city’s success. Our businesses, non-profits, and public servi...

Build Affordable Housing

Chicago, Illinois
With rising demand for housing in Belmont Cragin, one of the best ways to ensure that working-class households can afford to live here is to build more subsidized affordable housing.
land-use housing building

COOKIE MONSTER SQUARE FOUNTAIN

Peoria, Illinois
I've got the night renderings covered. So, the hard part's done; now all we gotta do is raze half a block and start pouring concrete (only for the 40' diameter fountain though, the rest of the square will be 3 acres of CSO complimentary paver ston...
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Riverfront Games

Peoria, Illinois
I think we should create opportunities for people to play games like Ping-Pong, chess, bocce ball, etc. on the Riverfront. Infrastructure, like relatively permanent Ping-Pong tables or chess boards could be placed around the Gateway Building and ...
a-vision-for-downtown-peoria public-space

Improve Affordable Rental Housing

Chicago, Illinois
Although Belmont Cragin has many single-family homes, rental housing is an important component of our housing market. In fact, 50 percent of housing units in our community are owner-occupied while 50 percent are occupied by a renter.
preservation housing building

Better K-Town

Chicago, Illinois
In k-town, we have abandoned buildings that need to be taken care of. for example, on kostner and washington. some buildings aren’t abandoned, but they are in disrepair. the building i live next to needs to be rebuilt. when people go in and out o...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods building

Redesign the WTVP Television Studio Site

Peoria, Illinois
Re-design the site of the television studio to include a re-configured entrance from the street and a liner building facing the street along the western façade.
streetscape street building

Tourism & Cultural Economic Development

Chicago, Illinois
Join us as we discuss the opportunities and developments taking place on the South Side under the broader umbrella of Tourism and how we can use "Cultural Economic Development" to socially and economically develoment pur communities.
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Create a Film Series that Celebrates Wabash

Chicago, Illinois
This series would capture and celebrate the special moments found throughout Wabash's history that are gone or still exist today and make it a special place in Chicago. This series would help strengthen or build a specific character that is true ...
transforming-wabash

Establish a Town Architect Position or a Committee for Architectural Review

Peoria, Illinois
Establish a position in the City’s planning department for a town architect or a committee for architectural review. The individual(s) that would serve would be skillful practitioners and talented in design.
governance preservation public-space land-use infrastructure park street housing building

community is unity garden

Chicago, Illinois
My idea is a community garden on the boulevard and a sheltered area for vendors to have a farmers market. It would bring revenue to our community and give entrepreneurs from all over Chicago a place to sell their products. The garden would also be...
urban-agriculture street infrastructure land-use public-space building

Big Picture

Peoria, Illinois
Mounted murals are placed on dozens of buildings throughout central Illinois drawing attention to the love, appreciation, and respect of our most needed resource, water.
water walking public-space park building street

Art gallery

Chicago, Illinois
How about dressing up the lobby by hanging art work. we could have revolving shows. we could tap the resident artists first then contact the school of the art institute and other local artists. it would be fun to have receptions (wine and chees...
building

EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge

Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, US Green Building Council - Illinois, and Civic ArtWorks are working together to support Chicago-area students in developing projects that answer the question: “How do you ma...