Interface Studio

    Continuing its long relationship with the Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha For Everyone (APM), Interface Studio led the planning process to revitalize a stretch of eastern North Philadelphia.  For this initiative, APM has forged a partnership with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to create a resident-driven quality of life plan that combines place-based initiatives with people-oriented ones.  The quality of life plan is the product of an extensive collaboration between residents, community leaders and organizations, and city agencies who worked together in monthly committee work sessions and focused roundtables. The process resulted in a community-supported vision for the community and prioritized action strategies that focus on: the physical environment; income and wealth; economic development; education, children and youth; leadership; healthy environments; arts and culture.  The quality of life plan supplements APM’s neighborhood plan completed by Scott Page in 1999 that established physical strategies for the future of the community.

    Target area for the plan in Eastern North Philadelphia.
    Target area for the plan in Eastern North Philadelphia.
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    A community visioning event kicked off the planning process
    A community visioning event kicked off the planning process
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    The plan focuses on 7 areas.
    The plan focuses on 7 areas.
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    Monthly committee meetings guided the development of the plan.
    Monthly committee meetings guided the development of the plan.
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    Community organizations signed on to support the plan's action steps.
    Community organizations signed on to support the plan's action steps.
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