Courtesy of 2014 AIA Housing Awards

• Restores a distressed historic building (a former YMCA)
• Houses 2 programs run by 2 nonprofits who co-purchased the building:
  • Neighborhood youth training and employment program
  • 49 units of supportive housing (serves youth exiting foster care, the mentally ill and the chronically homeless)
• Supportive services are offered on site
• Residents have access to a roof garden, laundry and lounge
• Community outreach gauged interest in the neighborhood programs, expectations for the restoration and the identification of neighborhood needs
• Front entry forms a neighborhood porch where community kids gather
• New addition creates a less formal side entry to the housing units above
• Demonstrates that provides community amenity, and achieve good innovative architectural design compatible within the context of a historic building in a neighborhood of historic homes and streets