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The
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
recipients
of a combined $7.5 million. Major aspects of their collaborative work include a
civic partnership and design center, an Overtown Neighborhood Revitalization Program
under a LISC umbrella including partnerships with The Black Archives/Lyric Theater,
the Bethel AME Community Development Corp. and the St. John's Community Development
Corp.; and the creation of a Community Land Trust to try to insure that Overtown's
current residents aren't forced out as redevelopment occurs.Local
Initiatives Support Corporation - LISC
(CDCs) for neighborhood redevelopment.
In 21 years, LISC and its affiliates have raised from the private sector and provided
$4 billion to 2,200 CDCs. These organizations have used our funds to attract an
additional $7 billion. This combined $11 billion investment has produced over 110,000
affordable homes and 14 million square feet of commercial and industrial space,
40,000 jobs, and numerous childcare facilities, charter schools, youth recreation
programs, crime and security initiatives and many other programs. LISC has been
working in Greater Miami since 1984. LISC is working in partnership with all three
Overtown CDCs. Its local director is Dennis Russ.Collins
Center for Public Policy - The Growth Partnership
promoting, through thought
and action, creative solutions to major private and public issues facing the people
of Florida and the nation. The Collins Center has established "The Growth Partnership"
to work with community groups, private developers and investors, and government
agencies to promote cooperation and to create consensus. Through these cooperative
relationships, The Growth Partnership is working with LISC and Overtown's CDC in
building a mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly, public transportation-oriented neighborhood.The
Trust for Public Land
Miami-Dade
Empowerment Trust
Empowerment
Zone program. The Trust provides tax incentives and performance grants, and also
focuses on activities to support people looking for work, such as job training,
childcare and transportation. The Empowerment Zone of Miami-Dade County includes
areas of Allapattah/Civic Center, Florida City, Homestead, Liberty City, Little
Havana, Melrose, Overtown, Wynwood, Miami International Airport and areas of the
Central Business District and Seaport. Developable sites of the Zone include Florida
City, Homestead, Opa-Locka Airpark and Northside/Poinciana Industrial Center (79th
Street Corridor)Miami
Dade County Housing Agency
The Miami Dade County Housing Agency has contracts with all of Overtown's
CDCs to engage in a cooperative effort to increase the supply of affordable housing
and increase the percentage of home ownership. The programs include (1) Surtax,
(2) HOME, (3) SHIP, and (4) CDBG.Banc
of America CDC
Neighborhoods. The CDC is working in partnership
with St. Agnes Rainbow Village CDC, the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust, LISC, and
the Miami Dade Housing Agency to create the Villages of St Agnes project. The project
is developing 98 new housing units on 12 acres of land in Overtown that will be
affordable to low income homebuyers. 80 of the new units will be detached two story
homes having two and three bedrooms and two baths. The remaining 18 units will be
townhomes. The project is a joint effort between the St Agnes Rainbow Village CDC
and two other entities: Banc of America Community Development Corporation and the
Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust.City
of Miami (Community Development Dept. & Community Redevelopment Agency