[Durham INC] Durham's "Build a Better Block" Block Party Nov. 17

[Blalock, Amy]

CITY OF DURHAM

Office of Public Affairs

101 City Hall Plaza

Durham, NC 27701

 

 

News Release

 

News Media Contact:

Amy Blalock

Sr. Public Affairs Specialist

(919) 560-4123 x 11253

(919) 475-7735 (cell)

Amy.Blalock at DurhamNC.gov 

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http://Twitter.com/CityofDurhamNC    

 

For Immediate Release: November 9, 2012

 

Durham's "Build a Better Block" Block Party November 17

Free Admission to Celebration at Driver Street and Angier Avenue
Intersection 

 

DURHAM, N.C. - East Durham residents and visitors should mark their
calendars now for next Saturday's "Build a Better Block" block party to
help celebrate the recent changes around the Driver Street and Angier
Avenue intersection thanks to a new initiative that brought "pop up"
businesses to this area.

 

The event, set for Saturday, November 17, 2012, from noon to 6 p.m.,
will celebrate the initial 30-day pilot demonstration and the work that
went into fostering new economic life into the existing storefronts,
part of the "Build a Better Block with Tootie" initiative. The
initiative will continue over the next 18 months in coordination with
the development of the City of Durham's Angier-Driver Streetscape
Project and other projects of the Durham Urban Innovation Center
focusing on this intersection and the surrounding neighborhood. The
block party will feature free admission, a food truck rodeo, music from
local bands, and vendors with all proceeds going to the nonprofit Build
A Better Block With Tootie, Inc. 

 

According to Constance Stancil, director of the City's Neighborhood
Improvement Services Department, this event will celebrate this
grassroots and resident-led project, which was designed to encourage the
local community to actively engage in a storefront build-out process. It
will also show that the success of the pilot can continue for the
businesses that participated as well as others who may now be interested
in locating in the corridor. "Thirty days of hard work by our residents,
businesses, and City staff transformed this block into a whole new
place," Stancil said. 

 

For more information about the block party or how to continue to support
this initiative, contact Wanona Satcher, neighborhood development
specialist with the City's Neighborhood Improvement Services Department,
at (919) 560-1647, ext. 34227 or by email at 
Wanona.Satcher at DurhamNC.gov. 

 

The "Build a Better Block with Tootie" initiative is supported by the
Durham Urban Innovation Center, which is a division of the City's
Neighborhood Improvement Services Department. For more information,
visit 
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Build-a-Better-Block-with-Tootie/222072414
587180 or http://betterblock.org. 

 

About the City of Durham Neighborhood Improvement Services Department

The Neighborhood Improvement Services Department works to preserve and
improve quality of life conditions for Durham residents, and to
encourage active participation in neighborhood redevelopment and public
policy and decision making dialogue. The department is responsible for
enforcement of quality of life ordinances and state statutes including
the City's Minimum Housing Code; Nonresidential Code; Weedy Lot,
Abandoned and Junk Vehicle ordinances; and the State of North Carolina's
Unsafe Building Statute. The department's rapid responders, known as the
Impact Team, remediate non-compliant housing properties; abate public
nuisances, such as litter, graffiti, illegal dumping, and abandoned
shopping carts; and conduct neighborhood service projects. The
department's Community Engagement staff provides outreach and education
to Durham residents and community organizations. Guided by the City's
Strategic Plan, the department helps ensure that Durham has thriving,
livable neighborhoods by providing the highest quality of services to
engage and educate the community, eradicate blight, ensure safer
neighborhoods, and enhance neighborhood revitalization. For more
information, visit http://DurhamNC.gov/ich/cb/nis/Pages/Home.aspx. 

 

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