by Flatley Read | Jan 4, 2022 | Community Development
On December 21st, the ribbon was cut on the first 3D-printed Habitat for Humanity home in the nation in a subdivision in Virginia. The Habitat for Humanity of the Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg partnered with Alquist to use the computer printing technology...
by Flatley Read | Dec 31, 2021 | Community Development
The turn of each New Year is often a good time for reflection, and commitment to new goals. What are your goals for your community in the coming year? Are your wells of creativity running dry? I’ve got some resources for you to consider during the...
by Flatley Read | Dec 20, 2021 | Community Development
The State of New York recently released the list of grantees from the most recent round of Consolidated Funding Applications for economic development, public facilities, environmental protection, parks development, and Main Street redevelopment. The list is...
by Flatley Read | Dec 8, 2021 | Community Development
Many communities that are working very hard to revitalize their downtown neighborhoods wrestle with the issue of what makes sense for the future of dilapidated white elephant buildings that dominate their streetscapes. Often, these buildings are vacant movie...
by Flatley Read | Nov 30, 2021 | Community Development
I had the great good fortune last evening to attend a talk by Temple Grandin, a professor at Colorado State, and a leading advocate for persons with autism. I was fascinated during the question and answer period by the number of young people who asked intelligent...
by Flatley Read | Nov 17, 2021 | Lead
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its blood lead reference value – the level at which children ages 1-5 are considered to have high exposure to lead. Since 2012, this threshold had been set at 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood;...
by Flatley Read | Nov 16, 2021 | EPA, Uncategorized
The State of New York currently has a Request for Proposals available for an administrator of a loan fund for a new residential loan program called Resilient Retrofits. Since this week is also when the world is meeting in Glasgow, Scotland to discuss climate...
by Flatley Read | Nov 2, 2021 | Community Development
Sometimes, the process of creating change in your neighborhood starts with meeting your neighbors and engaging them in the conversation about how your community looks, how it works, and which of your neighbors struggle and why. It is extremely difficult to make...
by Flatley Read | Oct 20, 2021 | Community Development
On October 14th, the Cultural Landscape Foundation of Washington, DC awarded the Cornelia Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. This is like the Nobel Prize for great thinkers on planting schemes. The inaugural prize was awarded to Julie...
by Flatley Read | Oct 8, 2021 | Community Development
It is amazing how often public life suffers because some fairly highly paid individual didn’t pay attention to the details. And because of those faulty details, everyone feels uncomfortable, even if they don’t know why. That was brought home to me on my drive...
