Showing posts with label Casius Pealer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Casius Pealer. Show all posts
Monday, November 8, 2010
Overview from Builders of Hope
Casius Pealer from Builders of Hope provides a nice overview of the major house moving effort underway in the VA Footprint - and just how complex it really is - at the organization's blog.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
"This is a groundbreaking project." - A Look at Builders of Hope
While it's unfortunate that the neighborhood inside the VA Footprint continues to be dismantled to make way for a hospital, the outcome is not as bad as it could have been.
A group of citizens and local officials certainly had a hand in the effort to move dozens of historic homes out of the site (which is in a National Register Historic District) as opposed to demolishing more of them outright and sending them to the landfill. But there's one organization that's really proven to be the essential factor in the entire undertaking - Builders of Hope.
A national non-profit operating out of Raleigh, North Carolina, "BoH" stepped into the breach at the invitation of Providence, a New Orleans-based housing non-profit that's also playing a key role as the owner of many of the destination lots for the houses that are moved.
I remember the first time I met Lew Schulman, BoH's COO, at the Providence HQ back in the spring - I sensed immediately that he would have the stature and the drive to interact with major contractors and local officials to make something happen. A few months later, he stood at the podium beside Mayor Landrieu and looked on as the second batch of homes rolled down Palmyra.
More recently, I took some time to chat with Casius Pealer, the Gulf Coast Regional Director for BoH about the non-profit's role in New Orleans and the house moving project in general. As we stood in the neutral ground on S. Galvez, crews began to move a home off the site.
A group of citizens and local officials certainly had a hand in the effort to move dozens of historic homes out of the site (which is in a National Register Historic District) as opposed to demolishing more of them outright and sending them to the landfill. But there's one organization that's really proven to be the essential factor in the entire undertaking - Builders of Hope.
A national non-profit operating out of Raleigh, North Carolina, "BoH" stepped into the breach at the invitation of Providence, a New Orleans-based housing non-profit that's also playing a key role as the owner of many of the destination lots for the houses that are moved.
I remember the first time I met Lew Schulman, BoH's COO, at the Providence HQ back in the spring - I sensed immediately that he would have the stature and the drive to interact with major contractors and local officials to make something happen. A few months later, he stood at the podium beside Mayor Landrieu and looked on as the second batch of homes rolled down Palmyra.
More recently, I took some time to chat with Casius Pealer, the Gulf Coast Regional Director for BoH about the non-profit's role in New Orleans and the house moving project in general. As we stood in the neutral ground on S. Galvez, crews began to move a home off the site.
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