Comments on: Community Development https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/community-development/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=community-development Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:41:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Marilyn Jewett https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/community-development/comment-page-1/#comment-1489001 Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:56:12 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=23486#comment-1489001 The section on community development institutions conveniently omitted the African-American-owned Beech companies on Cecil B. Moore Ave. established by the late Floyd Alston in 1990.

Since then, Beech has constructed and rehabbed over 300 low-income rental or homeownership units; Oxford Village: Construction of a 469-bed student housing, multi-family facility adjacent to the Temple University campus;1601 Commercial/Retail Building: Renovation & restoration of a 8,000 sq. ft. multi-use commercial building on 16th & Cecil B. Moore Avenue; Beech Interplex Building: The total rehabilitation & restoration of a 30,000 sq. ft. office & retail complex; Beech Care Buildings: New construction of 2 two childcare services & retail buildings, totaling 20,000 sq. ft.;Beechwood Homes: New construction & total rehabilitation of 14 for sale town houses;Alliance for Progress Charter School: New construction of a 16,000 sq. ft. education building;Women’s Christian Alliance Headquarters Building: New construction of a 25,000 sq. ft. administration & operations building that houses 240 employees.

These are just a few of what Beech has done in North Philadelphia. North Philadelphia would not be the same without Beech. Do better research next time you write an article like this.

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