Not exact matches
The Bridging Gowanus community
planning process was convened by the
local elected officials representing the Gowanus area, organized together with community leaders from resident,
civic, environmental, business, arts and housing
groups, and facilitated by the Pratt Center for Community Development.
«Diversity Plaza is a result of tremendous community effort, from the intensive transportation
planning sessions that developed it, to the efforts of the
local merchants and
civic groups that are now sustaining it,» said Andy Wiley - Schwartz, an assistant commissioner at the DOT.
A coalition of organizing, labor and
civic groups presented an alternative «Newark Promise»
plan that called for community schools and
local control.