The next phase of our 6% Place experiment got off to a strong start last Wednesday at our community meeting at the St. Lawrence O’Toole Activity Center in Garfield. Garfield residents, along with neighbors from Friendship and beyond, listened to cityLAB present 16 projects for the 6% Place, all designed to reach our 6% goal. We listened to comments, organized committees and are preparing for the next phase – the DO phase.
Details to follow!
Get the word out! cityLAB will be holding a community meeting for our 6% Place experiment on September 7th in Garfield – and we need YOU to come and GET INVOLVED!
The community meeting will be held from 6 to 7:30 PM on Wednesday, September 7th at the St. Lawrence O’Toole Activity Center on 140 N. Atlantic Avenue in Garfield.
cityLAB will be unveiling the ‘toolbox’ for our 6% Percent Place experiment and what comes next. We need your input – there will be 90 CMU architecture students there to work with you!
Munchies and drinks will be served.
R.S.V.P. to the 6% Percent Place Community Meeting here.
We hope to see you there!
Hot off the presses! cityLAB will be holding a community meeting for our 6% Place experiment on September 7th in Garfield – and we need YOU to come and GET INVOLVED!
The community meeting will be held from 6 to 7:30 PM on Wednesday, September 7th at the St. Lawrence O’Toole Activity Center on 140 N. Atlantic Avenue in Garfield.
cityLAB will be unveiling the ‘toolbox’ for our 6% Percent Place experiment and what comes next. We need your input – there will be 90 CMU architecture students there to work with you!
Munchies and drinks will be served.
R.S.V.P. to the 6% Percent Place Community Meeting here.
We hope to see you there!
We are looking for some superheroes…
to come to a COMMUNITY MEETING being held from 6 to 7:30 PM on Wednesday, September 7 at the St. Lawrence O’Toole Activity Center on 140 N. Atlantic Avenue in Garfield.
cityLAB will be unveiling the ‘toolbox’ for its Six Percent Place experiment and what comes next. We need your input – there will be 90 CMU architecture students there to work with you!
Munchies and drinks will be served.
R.S.V.P. to the Six Percent Place Community Meeting here.
We are excited to announce that we will be holding a community meeting to give an update on our Six Percent Place experiment and unveil our toolbox and what comes next.
The community meeting will be held at Garfield’s St. Lawrence O’Toole Activity Center on 140 N. Atlantic Avenue on Wednesday, September 7 from 6 to 7:30 PM.
Come GET INVOLVED! (There will be 90 CMU Architecture students there to work with you.)
Munchies and drinks will be served.
Find out more about our Six Percent Place experiment here.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s City Walkabout blog, written by Diana Nelson Jones, mentioned our last post about Pittsburgh’s demographic jump in twentysomethings. In fact, they mentioned it twice! Thanks for spreading the word, City Walkabout and Post-Gazette! And stay tuned for more from cityLAB and Six Percent Place.
The demographic story in Pittsburgh has long been that college graduates leave once their schooling is finished, causing a demographic ditch where the 25-35 year olds ought to be – but the data from the 2010 Census proves that there has been a dramatic spike in twentysomethings in Pittsburgh. Even as Pittsburgh’s overall population declined by a little more than 25,000 people between 2000 and 2010, due mostly to the city’s oldest cohorts dying out, the cohort of 20 to 29-year olds increased by some 12,000 people.
This trend has been reported, but, looking at the how dramatic the increase is, it feels like the headline has rather been buried — though the conclusion remains the same: that we must incentivize more twentysomethings to move to Pittsburgh and to keep them here for good. Six Percent Place’s focus on planning for human investment aims to do exactly that.
Pittsburgh has an abundance in unusual place names, from Squirrel Hill to Panther Hollow, from Asterisk Way to Woolslayer Way. It is a delightful experience to stumble onto a beautiful, unexpected, or strange name on a street sign – a unique name can take you by surprise and even make you look at a place with new eyes.
One of Garfield’s two parks, Kite Hill Park is a small park with a great name: forthright, declarative, evocative. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a sign to tell its name – the only thing in Kite Hill Park that says “KITE HILL PARK” is a trashcan on its basketball court.
Kite Hill Park needs more than a sign in order to be a place that people want to be — but maybe something as little as a sign would make Kite Hill Park more visible and more valuable, both to current and potential residents of Garfield, as well as people in neighborhoods around the city.
We’ve posted a lot of information about our Six Percent Place experiment on this blog. It’s a long way back to the beginning for late-comers to our site, so we thought we’d catch you up quickly.
Ten months ago we launched our Six Percent Place experiment. Our objective was to find an interesting but needy place and test out the following hypothesis: that a worker population that includes just 6% of “creatives” can turn a neighborhood into a hotbed of creativity, and become an attractive place for future residents; and that such a population can turn a place into a thriving community.
Since then we have carefully explored the tri-neighborhood area of Penn Avenue, Garfield and Friendship. We are finishing up gathering data and are in the process of documenting it. Watch these pages as we tell you more about what we have discovered.
image via techstep‘s flickr stream.
We took a look at gas shutoffs in order to measure the number of vacant properties. In Garfield, we found seventy, while in Friendship we found nineteen.