Dear Neighbors, Community Members, and All that You Are: I love Uptown. The very fact that so many of us are contributing to this valuable conversation about making our neighborhood even stronger is just one […]
I was invited to a community board meeting down my block earlier this evening. The weather was nice, so the meeting was held under the setting sun. The meeting would have been held outdoors either […]
It was an often overlooked effect of the previous decade’s housing and foreclosure crisis: those renting the apartments of the buildings that fell into foreclosure were often victims of predatory practices. Certain banks, developers, and […]
I had a great time running into a few familiar faces this morning as I walked around a portion of my block club hoping to engage with neighbors to gather their community feedback for our […]
For too many reasons to count, I feel lucky to live in Uptown; but the biggest reason is simple: the people. I am thrilled to help begin an outreach effort for my local block club, […]
It is not easy to begin an organized group such as a block club, but it is easy to fall against the question: what’s next? How do we keep this going? The answer in the […]
It was only 2 months ago when I asked several of my neighbors in my apartment building in Uptown to help organize our community. It truly was an effort in Building Community. Then, 2 weeks […]