[Durham INC] Durham Wins U.S. Mayors Award for Holton Center Renovation

[Blalock, Amy]

CITY OF DURHAM

Office of Public Affairs

101 City Hall Plaza

Durham, NC 27701

 

 

News Release

 

For Details, Contact:

Amy Blalock

Sr. Public Affairs Specialist

(919) 560-4123 x 11253

(919) 475-7735 (cell)

Amy.Blalock at DurhamNC.gov

 

 

 

 

For Immediate Release: July 12, 2011

 

 

 

Durham Wins U.S. Mayors Award for Holton Center Renovation 

Durham Among 20 City Livability Award Winners Nationwide

 

DURHAM, N.C. - The City of Durham has received an honorable mention from
the U.S. Conference of Mayors for the innovative development and launch
of the Holton Career and Resource Center, a project resulting from the
successful collaboration between the City, the County of Durham, Durham
Public Schools, and Duke University Medical Center.

 

According to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the Honorable Mention City
Livability Award recognizes Durham's effort to breathe new life into
Northeast Central Durham with a state-of-the-art vocational school,
recreation center, and community clinic that improves the lives of
thousands of students and community members who use the services
provided there every day.

 

The 2011 City Livability Awards Program is co-sponsored the U.S.
Conference of Mayors and Waste Management, Inc. For the past 32 years,
the City Livability Awards Program has been one of the most competitive
programs sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Each year, hundreds
of mayors and their city governments submit applications with a wide
range of programs to compete for the honor of calling themselves a City
Livability Award winner.

 

Durham was awarded the Honorable Mention City Livability Award for
cities larger than 100,000 in population size. The City Livability
Awards are presented in two population categories - 10 awards for cities
of up to 100,000 people and 10 awards for cities of 100,000 or more. In
each category, one first-place award, four outstanding achievement
awards, and five honorable mentions were granted. By receiving an
honorable mention, Durham joins only nine other cities to be recognized
this year for their innovative and successful programs that improve the
quality of life for its residents.

 

According to Mayor William V. "Bill" Bell, the recognition of the Holton
Career and Resource Center illustrates how the community's collaboration
to transform this abandoned, dilapidated middle school built in the
1930s actually transformed this neighborhood and the residents who call
Northeast Central Durham home. "The Holton Career and Resource Center is
a partnership in every sense, with community involvement from the
building design phase all the way to the programming of daily
operations," Bell said. "Aside from providing much-needed services, the
Center is now a magnet for positive activity for all residents. It's an
outstanding example of a successful public-private partnership and the
things we can accomplish in this community when we work together. I'm
proud of this accomplishment, and as one of the winners in this
competition, I believe the independent panel of judges that selected
Durham for this honor could see for themselves what makes this project
so successful and special."

 

The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization
of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,192 such
cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference
by its chief elected official, the mayor. For more information on the
U.S. Conference of Mayors and the City Livability Awards, visit 
www.USMayors.org/CityLivabilityAwards.  

 

For more information about the Holton Career and Resource Center and the
programs and services provided there, call (919) 354-2750.

 

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