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How Cadillac Fairview Reached a Bilingual Community and Counterbalanced Disinformation

Cadillac Fairview - Pointe Claire, Quebec An ambitious plan to redevelop 900 parking spaces into a large outdoor plaza...

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Our 2022 Client Survey: The ROI of Meaningful & Equitable Engagement

At coUrbanize, we typically focus on outcomes – whether projects on our platform are approved by municipal…

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Retail: What Community Members Want

Retail is on many people’s minds this month, at least within the commercial real estate industry. Late…

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How Santa Clara Community Members Shaped the Direction of Public Art to Honor Women

Womanhood - Santa Clara County, CA A multiyear public art project in Santa Clara County, California, Womanhood launched in 2020 with the goal of recognizing women’s contributions to the region...

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Decarbonization and Fair Housing, Combined

Preservation of Affordable Housing’s C40 Garfield Park project in Chicago April showers bring May flowers, etc. etc. But we’re…

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Partnering with Grassroots Community Groups to Ensure Support for Affordable Housing

Mission First Housing Group - Patuxent Commons, Columbia Creating affordable housing in high-income, suburban neighborhoods has historically been an uphill battle — which is why Mission First Housing Group...

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A New “Poster Child” for the Affordable Housing Overlay Program

Just A Start - 52 New Street, Cambridge Just A Start, whose affordable housing project at 52 New Street completed its design review process in January 2022, is being hailed as a “poster child”...

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Beyond Real Estate: How Cities Can Use Community Engagement for a Range of Issues

Most of our clients use the coUrbanize platform to generate productive dialogue about proposed real estate developments. But…

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Community Engagement’s Role in Preventing Gentrification

Gentrification. As communities around the country realize how serious our collective housing problem is, it’s a term we’re…

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Youth are Influencing an Affordable Housing Development for Homeless Teens

Commonwealth Catholic Charities - 809 Oliver Hill Way, Richmond, VA “It’s hard for young people to find adequate affordable housing if they choose not to go to college or don’t have parents they can live with...

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City of Cambridge Calls on All of Its Residents to Help Choose a New City Manager

Using coUrbanize Engagement Platform, Cambridge Seeks to Ensure A ‘Process Driven by Community Engagement,’ says Mayor CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9,…

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What Being Pro-Housing Really Means

When it comes to many of the issues around fair and equitable housing, there is oftentimes a…

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Real Estate Development’s Impact on Black Communities

Last year, coUrbanize chose to honor Black History Month by focusing on four innovators…

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Tying Together Disjointed Communities with a Neighborhood Vision for Senior Living

Beacon Communities - Leefort Terrace, Salem, MA As a resident of Salem and a neighbor of the Leefort Terrace public housing project for the last 16 years, Amy VanDoren has been waiting a long time...

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Engaging the Community and Gathering Feedback with Interactive Public Art

Silverstein Properties - Innovation QNS, Queens, NY Growing up as a kid in Queens, then-budding artist Zeehan Wazed noticed at a young age that the visual arts weren’t represented in his community as they were in other boroughs...

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coUrbanize Set Historic Growth Records in 2021, Reflecting Overwhelming Support for Community Engagement in Real Estate Development

Number of Projects on Platform Increased by 75% Year Over Year Cambridge, MA, January 11, 2022 — coUrbanize, the leading…

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Celebrating our Seventh Year on the GovTech 100: Innovations in Civic Tech

coUrbanize was named to Government Technology’s GovTech 100 list for 2022. We’re honored to be included alongside innovative teams solving problems in state and local government for the seventh consecutive year. We’re honored to be included in this list for the seventh consecutive year, alongside innovative teams solving problems in state and local government.

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Growing 2021’s Investments in “Place”

As “the great migration” around the country, kicked off by the pandemic, continues, expect to see communities looking into new and creative ways to support stronger qualities of life and thriving local economies for existing residents and to attract new residents and businesses to their communities.

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