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Opportunities to Connect Urban Conservation and Vacant Land Stewardship

Center for Community Progress

The Center for Community Progress is exploring an emerging trend where land banks and land conservancies partner to implement vacant land stewardship. A land bank is a public entity with unique powers to put vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties back to productive use according to community goals.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But it is something that a community development corporation tasked to serve the arts and culture community can do. For CounterPulse, the seven-year fundraising hustle proved the main challenge, though Phelps noted that CounterPulse buying a building attracted new funders who hadn’t come around before.