In-person - Ann Arbor
Learn more about the six-story mixed-use development with affordable housing at Catherine and Fourth Street, that is being built in a historically Black business and residential district. The property will be developed by Avalon Housing and the Ann Arbor Housing Commission (AAHC).
This is an opportunity to meet the Community Leadership Council (CLC) and learn about their role in this project.
It’s a first look at the plans for the building.
We want to hear from the community what your ideas are for the best uses of the first floor and hear your feedback on the design of the rest of the building.
This will be an INTERACTIVE event. Come prepare to engage.
Program begins at 5:30 pm. Weather permitting there’ll be a short walk to the future site of the development on Catherine St at 7:00 pm. This community engagement event is intended to get insights from Black and other community members about the project overall AND to generate ideas for the first floor, which will include public space.
RSVP for the Community Forum by Sunday 8/28: https://forms.gle/mbtdLbt1PK8bfe9C7 and receive more information about this project, program, and event parking. Please share this invite broadly. It is a public, in-person event and will include an overview of the project and an interactive place-based planning activity on the future development site.
This Community Forum is in collaboration between Yodit Mesfin Johnson, Jessica Letaw, the Ann Arbor Housing Commission, Avalon Housing, the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County and a group of community members (former & current residents, historians, artists) from the "West Side" of Ann Arbor (the area north and west of Kerrytown and into the surrounding neighborhood, since renamed "Water Hill"). The collaboration is intended to inform the development project in the works on Catherine Street, a historically Black business and residential area.
Covid Protocols: This is an outdoor event however we ask that if you have symptoms that you do NOT attend. Free masks will be available and we ask that people follow the CDC guidelines.