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Friendship Court

Residents of Friendship Court (an assisted housing community), Piedmont Housing Alliance (owner) and Grimm and Parker (architect) created a plan (in keeping with the Strategic Investment Area (SIA) public space standards for development) for replacing and retaining all 150 existing Section 8 units while adding 300 new units, affordable to a range of low to moderate household income levels and an early childhood development center.

Kathleen Galvin served as a City Councilor on the resident-led Friendship Court Advisory Committee and continues to serve as a citizen architect. This redevelopment project has received state and local funding for phase one as well as an on-site economic opportunity coordinator.

Friendship Court area, Charlottesville

Friendship Court

“We commit to ZERO DISPLACEMENT. We will pursue a broad range of wealth-building and educational opportunities and support structures including, but not limited to job training, exploring opportunities for worker-owned cooperatives, the development of an early childhood center, and the incubation of resident-owned business initiatives.”
(Friendship Court Resident Advisory Committee)

Images Courtesy of Grimm and Parker

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  • West Main Street
  • Belmont Bridge
  • Strategic Investment Area
    • SIA—Friendship Court
    • SIA—South First Street
  • Hydraulic Road / Route 29
  • Starr Hill
  • Community Based Code
  • Community Benefits District
  • Community Investment

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Kathleen M. Galvin, Architect FAIA, CNU-A
712 Lyons Avenue
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
Tel: (434) 979-2890 
kg@galvinarchitects.com

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