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RHCDA Sponsors Green Jobs Event Tomorrow, October 13 PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 12 October 2009 13:06

RHCDA is sponsoring Green Jobs and Eco-Development, a free event featuring speaker Baye Adofo-Wilson, tomorrow, October 13, 2009, from 5:30 to 7:30 at the St. Louis Community College Meramec Campus.

Be sure to join USGBC-STL and St. Louis Community College for this free program on the creation of a sustainable, diverse community called the Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District.  This eco-village has revitalized a once abandoned, crumbling neighborhood in Newark, NJ which now boasts a workforce training program with an 80% placement rate and an annual music festival drawing thousands of people to the community.

More information about the event can be found at: http://greenjobsecodevelopment.eventbrite.com/

 

RHCDA is Regional Housing and Community Development Alliance, a nonprofit organization that creates and supports the alliances that make smart, sustainable neighborhood revitalization possible in the St. Louis region.

"Since our first partnership with RHCDA helped us create the Lillian Park development of mixed-income quality housing, crime in that neighborhood has declined by more than 50% and residents feel like they can sit on their front porches again.  It feels like a community.  And even though that partnership was initiated some years ago, RHCDA is still very much engaged in that neighborhood, helping us to serve our residents and keep them involved." 

- Toni Cousins, Executive Director, Riverview-West Florissant Development Corporation