The Honorable Cynthia I. Newbille, Councilwoman, Richmond City Council, East End 7th District, invites everyone to the Grand Opening/Ribbon-Cutting and Open House will be held for the new Storefront for Community Design, which plans to be a nonprofit Richmond-Area community architectural design center that provides affordable individual, neighborhood and commercial consulting, planning, facilitation and education.
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Friday, 11 February 2011
Councilwoman Cynthia I. Newbille invites everyone to Grand Opening of Storefront for Community Design in Richmond’s Church Hill North Neighborhood
First Richmond-Area Community Architectural Design Center
WHAT The Honorable Cynthia I. Newbille, Councilwoman, Richmond City Council, East End 7th District, invites everyone to the Grand Opening/Ribbon-Cutting and Open House will be held for the new Storefront for Community Design, which plans to be a nonprofit Richmond-Area community architectural design center that provides affordable individual, neighborhood and commercial consulting, planning, facilitation and education.
Storefront for Community Design services are to include such things as schematic drawings for home projects, conceptual planning for commercial areas, community park planning, neighborhood facilitation and providing assistance to local government agencies.
The creation of Storefront for Community Design represents the collaborative efforts of architects, neighborhood residents, civic organizations, nonprofits, design professionals, business owners, elected and government officials, and academic partners who wanted to provide affordable community architectural design services to help continue the improvement of our neighborhoods and business districts.
This event is free and open to the public and the entire community is invited and encouraged to attend.
WHEN Monday, February 14, 2011
Grand Opening/Ribbon Cutting 10:00-10:30 a.m.
Open House 10:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
WHERE 1001 North 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia
(In Richmond’s Historic Church Hill North Neighborhood)
WHO The Honorable Cynthia I. Newbille, Councilwoman, Richmond City Council, East End 7th District
Burt Pinnock, BAM Architects
Mary Harding Sadler, Sadler & Whitehead Architects
Mary Thompson, New Vision Civic League of East End
Juanita Buster, Principal Planner, City of Richmond
Matt Conrad, Commonwealth of Virginia Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry
R. Michael Cross, R. Michael Cross Design Group
Peter Fraser, Fraser Design Associates
Jacek Ghosh, Director of Sustainability, Virginia Commonwealth University David Herring, Better Housing Coalition Neighborhood Revitalization Center
James Hill, Planner, City of Richmond
Andrew Moore, Glavé & Holmes Architecture
Charles Peters, Citizen
Jennifer Wimmer, Glavé & Holmes Architecture
CONTACT For more information, please call 804 322 9556, email info@storeforntrichmond.org or visit www.storefrontrichmond.org
and/or Sam Patterson, Liaison, The Honorable Cynthia I. Newbille, Councilwoman, Richmond City Council, East End 7th District, at 804.646.3012; or sam.patterson@richmondgov.com
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