Green Impact Zone to close…or change
Among other accomplishments, the Green Impact Zone helped get Bancroft School renovated.
After more than four years, the Green Impact Zone is shutting down next month, unless it is not.
Whichever, Zone Director Anita Maltbia said Monday, it ...
Brad Pitt’s Foundation brags on Bancroft School Apartments and Kansas City
A two bedroom apartment after renovation. Photo courtesy Make It Right blog, C. Jackson.
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation joined local partners last weekend in cutting the ribbon on the refurbished Bancroft School Apartments.
The foundation ...
Hiring fair connects urban core jobs, workers
Residents of the Urban Neighborhood Initiative area, between Troost and 71 Highway, 22nd Street to 52nd Street, are invited to a job fair on Sept. 17.
The event aims to offer urban core residents opportunities to talk directly with employers ...
Business incubator opens at 50th and Prospect
Residents of urban neighborhoods have long asked for help fostering entrepreneurship and job creation.
Now they have the Blue Hills Business Center and Contractor Incubator at 5008 Prospect Ave which officially opened its door last week.
“The ...
Groundbreaking celebrates “more than we could have imagined” in Manheim Park
The 103-year-old Bancroft Elementary School in the Manheim Park neighborhood has been vacant since 2000, but as these shovels signify, it’s about to come back to life. Neighbors, community organizations and others celebrated the revival of ...
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