Hazelwood: Making New Connections

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Hazelwood Making New Connections

• Christopher Marcello, Emalee Ranalli, Ruth
  Feathers, Amy Camp, Ted Kaczmarek, Annette
  Bassett Sanchez, Jacqueline Saslawski, Christie
  Hudson
• Capstone Seminar
• Spring 2001

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Population 2000

• Tract 1501 Total population 1,948, 74.5 White,
  22.9 African-American, 2.6 other.
• Tract 1504 Total population 805, 23.9 White,
  72.2 African-American, 3.9 other.
• Tract 1515 Total population 3,386, 54.8 White,
  40.6 African-American, 4.6 other.
• Combined Total population 6,139, 57 White, 39
  African-American, and 4 other.

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The Community of Hazelwood
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Community Analysis Highlights

• Community Human Service System Analysis
• Youth Recreation Opportunities
• Greater Hazelwood Weed and Seed Program
• The Mon-Fayette Expressway

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Community Human Service System Analysis

• What is a Community Human Service System
  Analysis?
• Analysis Methodology
• Interview with key community leaders
• Field work Observation of community meetings
• Directories
• Web pages

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Common Issues

• Youth
• Seniors
• Single mothers and Welfare to Work population
• General Community

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Service Delivery Units

• Informal
• Mediating
• Churches
• Formal
• Non-profits
• Healthcare providers
• Public agencies

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Major Weaknesses and Gaps

• Healthcare service delivery
• Service delivery for youth and seniors
• Lack of communication or collaboration
• Churches
• Ethnic and racial groups
• Public transportation/bus routes
• Adequate service down town
• Lacking adequate service to Oakland, Waterfront,
  and other major locations

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Recommendations

• Improve UPMC Hazelwood Clinic
• Collaborative efforts among different ethnic/race
  groups
• Multi-purpose human service center
• Continuation of community newspaper
• Church collaboration
• Focus on after school programs

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Youth Recreation in Hazelwood

• Methodology of study
• Benefits of youth athletics
• Lack of communication between league organizers
• Lack of opportunities for girls and minorities

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Availability of Recreational Sports Teams or
Leagues
Recreational Sports Hazelwood Hazelwood Greenfield Greenfield
Recreational Sports Boys Girls Boys Girls
Football Yes No Yes No
Basketball Yes (ages 14-17) No Yes Yes
Baseball Yes Co-ed (majority boys) Yes Co-ed (majority boys)
Softball Yes (Gladstone only) Yes (Gladstone only) No Yes
Soccer No No Co-ed Co-ed
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Recommendations

• Form a youth recreation committee and develop
  community-wide youth recreation plan
• Take into special consideration the needs of
  girls
• Offer a variety of youth recreation options
• Cooperate with neighboring communities
• Take advantage of Citiparks programs
• Take advantage of both local and national
  programs and organizations

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Greater Hazelwood Weed and Seed Program

• What is Weed and Seed?
• Mayors Office Evaluation (1994)
• Hazelwood task forces
• Mobilizing community resources (1995)
• Funding for Greater Hazelwood Weed and Seed
  program (1996)
• Greater Hazelwood as a model case

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Weed and Seed Components in Hazelwood

• Primary Weeding agents
• COPS
• Plain-clothes officers
• Zone Patrol
• Weed and Seed Task Force
• Primary Seeding agents
• The Hazelwood Initiative

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Recommendations

• Persistent contact and collaboration with
  community schools
• Further community organizing toward positive
  change
• Foster ties between Hazelwood and Glen Hazel

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The Mon-Fayette Expressway

• Major threat to the community and region
• Communities in the path of the MFE
• Environmental justice issue

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Properties Eliminated by MFE

• 177 properties
• 16 million in assessed value
• 470K in tax revenues
• 2nd Avenue down to 5200 block

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Recommendations

• Attend public meetings
• Join with other community groups in the Mon
  Valley
• Take action to save what you value
• Make a firm response to the highway a critical
  part of the master plan
• Identify places of potential historic value
• Keep the lines of communication open
• Make sure local politicians know what you want
  and make them accountable

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New Directions for Brownfield Development In
Hazelwood "New Hazelwood Vision"
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South Side Works

• 1990-1992 Community Establishes a Vision
• 1994-1996 Coalition amidst Conflict

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Germany the Ruhr Region Applications for
Hazelwood
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The IBA Emscher

• IBA Emscher Park is about a whole region and puts
  the ecological question in its center
• 120 projects
• 17 towns

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Emscher Park
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Central Concept and Main Strategies of IBA-Emscher

• Central concept development on a long-term
  framework
• Main strategies
• Focus on structural changes in the Ruhr Region
• Redevelopment of the landscapes
• Ecological renovation of the Emscher Park
• New commitment of industrial monuments as
  cultural centers
• Maintain and renovate the existing residence
  areas and add new ones

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A Stream in Emscher Park Before and After
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Prosper III
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Public-Private Partnerships

• Pittsburgh was once to act as an example for the
  Ruhr area now its the other way around!

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Food for Thought

• The Ruhr Region and Pittsburgh
• Do something that is typical for Hazelwood or
  typical for Pittsburgh
• Connect new developments to the regions
  industrial heritage
• Give a new definition to old industrial regions
  and sites

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Recommendations

• Involve the community
• Educate the community
• Start talking about development before
  development arrives
• Take advantage of community activism

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Recommendations (continued)

• Involve the community's vision
• Uniquely Pittsburgh or Hazelwood development
• Connect to industrial heritage
• Think "out of the box"

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Community Revitalization Strategies
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Hazelwood History

• Timeline
• Historical sites in Hazelwood
• The Woods House
• Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
• St. Stephens Roman Catholic Church
• First Hungarian Reformed Church
• Carnegie Library of Hazelwood
• Formerly Hazelwood/Derby Brewing
• E. Elizabeth Street apartment building
• LTV site
• The Car Barn

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The Hazelwood Library Daybook

• June 1901-May 1902
• The daily stories
• What happened to the dome?

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Revitalization Through Preservation

• Historic preservation is an economic development
  strategy that enables cities and towns to compete
  with suburbs. -- Donovan D. Rypkema
• Diversity, good housing stock, and historical
  character attract families
• Preservation attaches people to their community

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Community Markets

• Scope of Research
• Profiled 3 community markets
• Created a list of lessons learned

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Portland Saturday Market

• Started in 1974 by two local artists
• Now a major tourist destination
• Generates 13 million a year 

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East St. Louis Farmers Market

• Started in 1994 by a neighborhood organization
• Aimed to increase economic activity and improve
  nutrition
• Generated 400,000 in sales in first three years

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Aliquippa Farmers Market

• Started in 1996 by a local nonprofit organization
• WIC recipients needed a place to use vouchers
• Not held in 2000

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Lessons Learned

• Select a site that has refrigeration,
  electricity, and water
• Involve children and teens
• Get corporate sponsors
• Offer a diversity of goods

• Know your community
• Involve residents in planning
• Get commitment from vendors early
• Use community resources that are free of charge
• Involve vendors who accept multiple forms of
  payment

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Swap Shops and Flea Markets

• A way to create a niche
• There are at least a dozen farmers markets in
  the city
• There are no regularly held flea markets

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Petermans Criteria for Success of Neighborhood
Development

• Adequate monetary and human technical resources
• Demand driven, grassroots organizing (top-down
  will not work)
• Must build strong ties with public officials,
  technical experts, and other organizations
• Must create an atmosphere of creative tension

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Hazelwood Surviving Big Box Competition

• Must develop specialized niches (antiques,
  boutiques, ethnic dining)
• Use exclusionary zoning or design and size
  control
• Aspinwall, Sharpsburg, South Side

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Workforce Development in Hazelwood Building
Networks for New Opportunities
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Workforce Development and Networks

• What is workforce development?
• "A constellation of activities"
• What are workforce development networks?
• Link social networks
• Provide information
• Develop trust

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Garfield Employment StudyProfile of a working
neighborhood
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National Benchmarks

• Center for Employment Training
• WIRE-Net

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Lessons from Benchmarks

• Continuous worker support
• Active private sector involvement
• Active community Involvement
• A few key partnerships critical
• Creativity

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Local Workforce Networks

• Career Link
• Job Links
• Community Development Program Network

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Recommendations for Hazelwood-1

• Formal assessment
• Provide information
• Partnership with local businesses

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Recommendations for Hazelwood-2

• Utilize community assets
• Link with existing networks
• Community support system
• Be proactive

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Recommendations for Partnership

• Dialogue between Hazelwood Initiative and Oakland
  Consortium
• Acknowledge PTC as Hazelwood asset
• Networks with PTC and Kerotest
• Involve PTC and Kerotest in community structures
  and committees
• Technology Day in Hazelwood