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		<title>Winter 2010 Service Grants Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Community Design Collaborative has awarded its first round of service grants for 2010 to The Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation, Mantua Community Improvement Committee, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Friends of Weccacoe Playground/Queen Village Neighbors Association, The Friends of Hart Park/Kensington South Neighborhood Advisory Council, Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates and Roxborough Development Corporation.  In this round, ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/service-grants/winter-2010-service-grants-announced/</link>
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		<title>Greens and Green: Overbrook Farms Completes a First Step in Revitalizing 63rd Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pedestrians and drivers along the 63rd Street Commercial Corridor in historic Overbrook Farms will get a treat this spring when the sidewalk planters built by the Overbrook Farms Club emerge from the snow and begin to bloom.
The landscape improvements were designed by Sara Pevaroff Schuh, Principal of SALT Design Studio and a regular Collaborative volunteer, ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/clients/greens-and-green-overbrook-farms-completes-a-first-step-in-revitalizing-63rd-street/</link>
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		<title>Designing for Modern Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a former pipe shop transformed into the national headquarters for Urban Outfitters, the Infill Philadelphia: Industrial Sites design challenge got off to a rousing start with a program that highlighted the possibilities for industrial reuse and announced the sites and teams engaged in the design challenge.
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Photos by Mark Garvin

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		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/infill-philadelphia/designing-for-modern-industry/</link>
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		<title>An Opening Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Architecture was bursting at the seams for the February 5 opening of Retooling Industrial Sites despite the impending snowstorm of the century. Over 300 people attended the opening of the exhibit and came out to see the work of over 30 design firms transforming older industrial sites.
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		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/infill-philadelphia/an-opening-success/</link>
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		<title>The Collaborative&#8217;s New Board Members</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Community Design Collaborative is pleased to announce the election of Mary Ann Conway and Joe Matje to its board of directors. Mary Ann is Director of Development for the Office of Institutional Advancement at Drexel University and Joe is a project engineer at Bruce E. Brooks and Associates.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/at-the-collaborative/announcing-the-collaboratives-new-board-members/</link>
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		<title>Volunteers Provide Business Facade Consultations in Frankford</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 8:30 a.m. bright and early on a Thursday morning, a group of local business owners and intern architects were huddled over photos and diagrams in the Frankford Community Development Corporation’s office sketching and discussing lighting and signage.

The meeting was organized by the Community Design Collaborative as part of the rStore program, which provides preliminary ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/service-grants/volunteers-provide-business-facade-consultations-in-frankford/</link>
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		<title>Industrial Sites Design Challenge Kickoff</title>
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The Community Design Collaborative has teamed up with the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) to support a design challenge that will tackle some of the common issues surrounding retooling older industrial sites in urban neighborhoods through an original approach—innovative design.
The Infill Philadelphia: Industrial Sites Design Challenge will officially kick off on Tuesday, February 16 at ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/infill-philadelphia/industrial-sites-design-challenge-kickoff/</link>
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		<title>Lofty Aspirations for Industrial Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia City Paper article Lofty Aspirations profiles the Collaborative&#8217;s upcoming Retooling Industrial Sites exhibit. Beth Miller, Executive Director of the Collaborative, and exhibitors from KSS Architects discuss the possibilities of repurposing former industrial areas.
Read the article
The exhibit opens Friday Feb. 5 with a reception from 5:30-7:30.
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		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/infill-philadelphia/city-paper-profiles-the-retooling-industrial-sites-exhibit/</link>
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		<title>The Collaborative Launches Project with Cramer Hill CDC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Community Design Collaborative service grant begins with a kickoff meeting to present the volunteers with background on the project, the site, the neighborhood and the client and their mission.  Last week Angelo Drummond’s vision for a teen lounge in the Cramer Hill neighborhood of Camden, NJ moved one step further when the Community Design ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/service-grants/the-collaborative-launches-project-with-cramer-hill-cdc/</link>
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		<title>City&#8217;s Green Groundbreakers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inga Saffron profiles four groundbreaking Philly architecture firms, showing a common thread shared by KieranTimberlake, Erdy McHenry, Onion Flats, and Interface Studio Architects:  &#8220;architects who do not blush in saying that what they&#8217;re doing is socially important work.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re not the sort of architects you go to when you want just another pretty building&#8230; instead they ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cdesignc.org/best-practices/citys-green-groundbreakers/</link>
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