The people and projects listed in bold include former Rudy Bruner Award winners and Selection Committee members. The Rudy Bruner Award is proud of their ongoing commitment to our nation’s cities. We welcome news on the activities of all of our winners and Selection Committee members. Please send updates to: eaxelrod@brunerfoundation.org RBA Winners 2007 Children's Museum of Pittsburgh continues the revitalization of Allegheny Square into a vibrant green space for the Museum and the entire North Side. This is a collaborative effort between the Museum, the City of Pittsburgh, and the local community. Activity in the Charm Bracelet Initiative also continues. Recently there has been increased involvement between Charm Bracelet institutions and the Pittsburgh public schools, with the goal of providing specific curriculum strategies as a basis for multiple visits to various institutions over the school year with. Finally, Fresh Fridays at the Northside Farmers Market continues with programming of family and youth activities by the Children's Museum. :: www.pittsburghkids.org High Point Redevelopment Project in Seattle has completed the last 256 of its rental units so that all 600 are now built. The new Neighborhood Center which embodies the latest in green technology is opening on November 14 and is seeking a LEED gold certification. The neighborhood center will house a wide variety of recreational and social gathering options for the High Point community, and will provide an educational agenda for energy conservation and environmental stewardship. High Point is also starting a long term project modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone, to actively engage High Point families in early childhood education. This will involve working with neighborhood schools to build opportunities for success for High Point's 1,150 children. :: www.seattlehousing.org 2005 Portland Streetcar ridership has now reached over 4 million per year on the 4 mile line. In addition, construction is now underway for the 3.35 mile Loop extension, which brings streetcar service into the previously industrial the South Waterfront District of Portland. Additional extensions are currently being studied. Rudy Bruner Award monies have been used to assist other cities in developing streetcars in their downtowns. To date Seattle, Tacoma, Washington D.C., Tucson, Cincinnati, Detroit, and Los Angeles are either studying, or are in the process of building new streetcar systems based upon the Portland model. Many other cities have serious plans for streetcar projects. Finally, Oregon iron Works in Clackamas, OR has started manufacturing streetcars, providing an additional boost to the local economy. :: www.portlandstreetcar.org Artists Relocation Program in Paducah, KY has now relocated seventy artists who have come from cities around the country to live and work in Paducah. The program has become a national model for community revitalization through the arts, and has resulted in a vibrant downtown arts district and a community of artists who own their properties and galleries, and remain committed to the City. :: www.paducaharts.com The Heidelberg Project has been documented in a newly released book entitled: Connecting the Dots: Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project, published by the Wayne State University Press in 2007. The book can be purchased through the project website at: www.heidelberg.org. Tyree Guyton was also awarded a 2007 Krasner Pollack award, as well as a recent award from the Joyce Foundation in Chicago. :: www.heidelberg.org 2003 Camino Nuevo Charter Academy continues to thrive. Since Camino won the RBA Gold Medal in 2003 the Pueblo Nuevo middle school and high school have opened, as well as a new early education center on the Burlington block. With two K-8 campuses still going strong, Camino now has a total of over 1,500 students enrolled, and a budget of $13 million. Both K-8 schools and the high school have received the highest rating available for LA schools. Camino Nuevo was recently featured in the Harvard Education Review. :: www.caminonuevo.org The success of Colorado Court continues to attract inquiries from all over the world. The level of interest has led Pugh-Scarpa to consult with developers and architects on how to make their projects more sustainable from a 'cost-budget' point of view. Pugh-Scarpa has also launched Livable Places, a non-profit initiative for encouraging and building mixed-use sustainable development in Southern California. Livable Places recent projects include Olive Court, featuring 57 for sale residences in a fully sustainable transit-oriented development, and Fuller Lofts, with 107 units, scheduled to open in the fall of 2007. :: www.pugh-scarpa.com Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn has been adapted as a community court in Liverpool, England, and in several other cities across the world. The Center for Court Innovation recently won the Peter F. Druker award for Non-profit Innovation, and has opened two new community courts in the New York area: Harlem Reentry Court and Brooklyn Treatment Court, for a total of over 21 courts and demonstration projects in the New York area. In addition CCI is continuing to develop treatment based alternatives for repeat juvenile offenders and is working on a new community court in Newark. :: www.courtinnovation.org 2001 Village of Arts and Humanities now comprises 12 art parks, an after school program, numerous seasonal and ongoing events, and programs for all ages. Village is built upon the idea that "Placing art in vulnerable places and art making is key to improving the lives of vulnerable people." Village has grown from its initial small group of vacant lots to over 1.1 million square feet of vacant land now maintained by the organization. :: www.villagearts.org 1997 Common Ground, whose initial project, The Times Square won the Gold Medal in 1997, now has several companion projects including the St. George (416 units), and the Christopher (207 units), the Aurora (178 units), Schermerhorn House in Brooklyn (217 units) and the Andrews in the Bowery (146 units), in addition to several smaller facilities outside the City. Common Ground continues to do pioneering work in the field of ending homelessness and has introduced a series of groundbreaking programs for transitional housing in its facilities. :: www.commonground.org Project Row Houses in Houston is currently celebrating 15 years as a community building art program. Starting with 22 row houses, PRH has grown to 40 properties, and a six square block campus. PRH now includes twelve artist exhibition and/or residency spaces, seven houses for young mothers, artist residencies, office spaces, a community gallery, a park, low-income residential and commercial spaces, and the historic El Dorado Ballroom. In 2003, PRH established the Row House Community Development Corporation (RHCDC) as a separate, affiliated corporation. Designed to broaden PRH's focus to preserve community, RHCDC addresses housing and related community and economic development needs by providing low-income rental housing. RHCDC has designed and built nine low-income housing units and is in the process of building and acquiring additional property for rental and home ownership. :: www.projectrowhouses.org 1995 Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative is celebrating its 20th year of active involvement in the neighborhood. DSNI, working with the City of Boston, recently approved development plans for a mix of affordable housing and commercial development on four key sites in the neighborhood. DNI combines vacant lots acquired via eminent domain with City-owned parcels and leases these to private and nonprofit developers for the purpose of building affordable housing consistent with the community's master plan. :: www.dsni.org Lowertown in St. Paul, continues to grow its "urban village," and has become one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in St. Paul. There are now 500 artists living and working in Lowertown. The recent conversion of a nearby brownfield to a large nature sanctuary is one of several projects improving the neighborhood. The ongoing preservation and improvement of historic buildings in the downtown continue to contribute to Lowertown's diverse urban character. :: www.lowertown.org 1991 West Clinton Action Plan, a program of REACH community development in Portland, OR, created action plans as a mode for directing public funds into Portland's most needy neighborhoods. In West Clinton REACH, leveraged over a million dollars in public and private funds, renovated 21 of the worst homes in the area, and coordinated a number of community projects. For every project, someone from the community was asked to take a leadership role, with support from REACH staff, to ensure the project's completion. This helped build community ownership over the plan. The plan has been replicated in two other neighborhoods in Portland, and the city of Portland adapted the model to guide their distribution of Community Development Block Grant funds during the 1990's, positively impacting many more Portland neighborhoods. :: www.reachcdc.org 1987 Pike Place Market in Seattle has extended the work of its Foundation to provide medical services, food distribution programs, and other social services to the low income residents of Seattle, and those residing in the Market neighborhoods. The Market Foundation works to preserve the traditions and diversity of the Pike Place Market neighborhood by supporting services that care for the nearly 10,000 low-income and elderly residents of downtown Seattle. The Market Foundation supports local service agencies including: The Pike Market Medical Clinic, Pike Market Child Care & Preschool, The Pike Market Senior Center and the Downtown Food Bank. :: www.pikeplacemarket.org