Baton Rouge Project
Webinar on “Community Land Trusts: Affordable Housing Strategies for Economic and Racial Justice” – March 12, 2024
The March 12 webinar, titled "Community Land Trusts: Affordable Housing Strategies for Racial and Economic Justice," offered an exceptional platform to highlight how shared equity models can foster upward socio-economic mobility. While the concepts of Trusts, Land...
Webinar on “Community Land Trusts: Affordable Housing Strategies for Economic and Racial Justice” – March 12, 2024 – Save the Date
Manohar Patole, Co-City fellow and project manager at Co-City Baton Rouge, will be the guest speaker for the webinar titled "Community Land Trusts: Affordable Housing Strategies for Economic and Racial Justice," scheduled for March 12. He will present the...
Co-Creating Urban Affordability: The Plank Road Community Land Bank and Trust
Manny Patole, LLM, MUP Co-City Fellow and Project Manager, Co-City Baton Rouge Urban affordability is an issue cities all over the world grapple with. Emerging from first the foreclosure crisis in 2008 and now COVID-19, many cities are facing an ongoing and...
Co-City Baton Rouge Case Study – Plank Road EcoPark
JP Morgan Advancing Cities White Paper#1 Co-City Baton Rouge Case Study - Plank Road EcoPark Manny Patole, Co-City Fellow January 21, 2022 Summary The Plank Road “EcoPark” (PREP) project is part of a larger collaborative of Co-City Baton Rouge (CCBR)- an effort...
BBR wins $5 million in JPMorgan Chase’s AdvancingCities Challenge
One Year After Announcing the Imagine Plank Road Plan for Equitable Development, Build Baton Rouge Secures Project Funding from JPMorgan Chase. https://youtu.be/Z1BrI8Fsdgw For decades, Baton Rouge has been dubbed “a tale of two cities.” Pervasive blight and high...
Perspectives: The Co-City Capstone Team
In September 2019 the Marron Institute partnered with the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service to work with a group of Capstone students on the Co-City Baton Rouge project. The team is charged with conducting a global environmental scan on the institutions,...
2019: A Year In Review
Build Baton Rouge Plank Road Master Plan Map Section I started with Co-City Baton Rouge on April 1 2019 and April 6 I was on the ground in Baton Rouge. I knew from that point that this project intended to making a lasting, sustainable, positive impact for the local...
Who is Co-City Baton Rouge?
The Co-City Baton Rouge project started with Professor Foster speaking with the Build Baton Rouge President/CEO Chris Tyson for many hours over the course of 2-3 months with Chris Tyson and his team. As ideas began to percolate, Professor Iaione was looped in then...
Understanding Plank Road: Part II
Residents enjoying food and festivities at the Food Truck Round-Up on April 7, 2019 I made my first visit down to Baton Rouge at the end of my first week on the job in April 2019. I flew down Friday night to attend a community event called Food Truck...
Understanding Plank Road: Part 1
Plank Road Historical Timeline Courtesy of Studio Zewde Co-City Baton Rouge is developing and implementing innovative institutions to transform the Plank Road Corridor (Corridor) of North Baton Rouge into a community of opportunity. By focusing on neighborhood scale...
Introduction to Co-City Baton Rouge
Sunset on the Baton Rouge River Walk LabGov Georgetown (LabGov) and the Marron Institute of Urban Management at NYU (Marron) have partnered with Build Baton Rouge (BBR), the redevelopment authority of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to apply the Co-City methodology to...