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Haddington/Cobbs Creek 2010 a Plan for Our Future Haddington/Cobbs Creek 2010 A Plan for Our Future Contents Acknowledgments 5 Executive Summary 7 1 Introduction and Purpose 12 2 Neighborhood Description 14 3 Baseline Data Describing Neighborhood Conditions 19 4 Strategies for Achieving the Haddington/Cobbs Creek 2010 Vision 24 Children and Families 25 Major Trends That Impact the Community 25 Resident Perceptions 25 Community Assets Related to Children and Families 26 Strategies for Children and Families 27 Recollections and Reflections 29 Economic Development 0 Major Trends That Impact the Community 0 Resident Perceptions 1 Community Assets Related to Economic Development 1 Strategies for Economic Development 2 Recollections and Reflections 34 Affordable Housing and Housing Counseling 5 Major Trends That Impact the Community 5 Resident Perceptions 6 Community Assets Related to Affordable Housing and Housing Counseling 6 Strategies for Affordable Housing and Housing Counseling 7 Recollections and Reflections 39 A Plan for Our Future Neighborhood Building 40 Major Trends That Impact the Community 40 Resident Perceptions 40 Community Assets Related to Neighborhood Building 41 Strategies for Neighborhood Building 41 Recollections and Reflections 44 5 Goals, Strategies, Tactics and Outcome Measures 46 6 Timeline and Costs for Haddington/Cobbs Creek 2010 Plan Strategies 6 Notes 72 Profiles of the Planning Project Sponsors, Consultant and Funder 7 AchieveAbility 7 The Partnership CDC 74 Baker & Company, LLC 75 Wachovia Regional Foundation 76 LIST OF MAPS, GRAPHS AND DRAWINGS Figure 1 Map of Haddington/Cobbs Creek and surrounding neighborhoods 14 Figure 2 Community assets and population map 15 Figure Age and sex distribution 19 Figure 4 Poverty rates 19 Figure 5 Educational attainment levels of adults age 25 and over 20 Figure 6 Retail market types 22 Figure 7 Age distribution of heads of households of owner-occupied homes 22 Figure 8 Health conditions and risk factors in zip codes 1919 and 1914 2 4 Haddington/Cobbs Creek 2010 Acknowledgments AchieveAbility, The Partnership CDC and Baker and Company, LLC would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their support in completing the Haddington/Cobbs Creek Visioning Project: Wachovia Regional Foundation, Denise McGregor-Armbrister, Executive Director; Kimberly Allen, Program Officer; Mailee Walker, Communication/Program Officer; Lois Greco, Evaluation Officer; and Janell Price, Administrative Assistant Block Captains Coalition of Haddington, Ruth Bazemore, Chairperson Brandywine Realty Trust, Gerard Sweeney, Chief Executive Officer Church of Christian Compassion, Reverend Lonnie Herndon, Pastor Cobbs Creek Environmental Center, Andrew Brazington, Volunteer Coordinator Cobbs Creek Neighborhood Advisory Committee, Grace Lindsay, President Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, 3rd District Council, City of Philadelphia Councilman Michael Nutter, 4th District Council, City of Philadelphia Greater White Rock Baptist Church, Reverend George Blount, Pastor Haddington Cobbs Creek Community Development Corporation, Joseph Jenkins, President Haddington Multi-Services for Older Adults, Geneva Black, Executive Director Haddington Community Health Project and To Our Children’s Future With Health, Inc., Charmaine Sudler Milligan, Director of Community Development and Organization Hurricanes Youth Association, Maurice Davis, Executive Director Layser & Freiwald, P.C., Danyl S. Patterson, Attorney-at-Law Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia, Sister Megan Brown, Vice President, Mission Services Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Reverend Albert Campbell, Pastor, and Reverend Vincent Coles, Associate Minister, Minister to Youth and President, Mt. Carmel Human Development Corporation Neighborhood Bike Works, Andy Dyson, Executive Director Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, Revered Thomas Kletzel, Pastor, and Deacon Richard Nightingale Paul Robeson House, Frances Aulston, Executive Director Philadelphia Beauty Showcase National Historical Museum, Shirley and Paul Randleman, Founder-Directors Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Richard Redding, Deputy Director, Community Planning Division Philadelphia Commercial Development Corporation, Curtis Jones, Jr., President A Plan for Our Future 5 Philadelphia More Beautiful, 18th District and 19th District, Cassandra Whiters and Wanda Jones, Clean Block Officers Philadelphia Police Department, 18th Patrol District and 19th Patrol District, Officer Michael Davis and Officer Christina Linder, Community Relations Officers Presbytery of Philadelphia Head Start Learning Tree, Betty Dowdy, Executive Director St. Matthew A.M.E. Church, Reverend Ellis Washington, Pastor Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, Patricia Miller, Community Relations Officer Spectrum Health Services, Inc., Phyllis Cater, Chief Executive Officer State Representative James Roebuck, Jr., 188th Legislative District, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Representative Thomas Blackwell IV, 190th Legislative District, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Representative Ronald Waters, 191st Legislative District, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Representative Louise Williams Bishop, 192nd Legislative District, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes, 7th Senate District, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Senator Anthony Hardy Williams, 8th Senate District, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania United States Representative Robert Brady, 1st Congressional District of Pennsylvania United States Representative Chaka Fattah, 2nd Congressional District of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, Crystal Barnes, Master of City Planning Class of 2005 and Cobbs Creek resident Urban Tree Connection, Skip Weiner, Executive Director The Center for Human Advancement, 4601 Market Street West Philadelphia Concerned Block Captains, Julia Chin, President Youth Development Initiative, Olivia Propst and Terri-Mannes Gutierrez, Program Directors 6 Haddington/Cobbs Creek 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Haddington/Cobbs Creek 2010 is the neighborhood strategic plan developed for these communities in West Philadelphia through the Haddington and Cobbs Creek Visioning Project. It is the culmination of a groundbreaking neighborhood planning process in which: Two organizations—AchieveAbility and The Partnership CDC—seeking individual planning grants, united to conduct a planning process on a larger scale. Two neighborhoods, historically and physically divided by the Market-Frankford Elevated Train Line (the “EL”), came together to work toward a brighter future. A historic level of community involvement was achieved, which began with the Haddington/Cobbs Creek’s selection of the planning consultant and continued through a planning process in which the community truly developed the plan. Vision An agreement to foster plan implementation—through a revitalized Haddington/ Cobbs Creek CDC—was reached to provide a means for this historic level of community Haddington/Cobbs Creek will be a safe, involvement to continue as these neighborhoods work in partnership to achieve the healthy, vibrant, technologically savvy and vision developed through this process. hopeful community, where: Haddington is the area bounded by 52nd Street, 63rd Street, Girard Avenue and Market Street. Success and our heritage are Adjacent to it is Cobbs Creek, which is bounded by 52nd Street, Cobbs Creek Parkway, Baltimore celebrated; Avenue and Market Street. Together, these communities include 57,194 persons in 21,896 Cultural diversity is embraced; households. The area is 96% Black. It is primarily a residential community, with a high degree Education is valued; of homeownership (65%) and excellent access to public transportation. Areas of commerce are Economic opportunities are created concentrated on Market Street, 52nd Street and 60th Street. The area has a number of social service and and recreation assets. It is, however, confronted with a number of pressing issues: capitalized on; Collaboration and effective The area’s incomes are 35% lower than the city’s, with 27% living below the poverty communication are fostered; and level and only 51% of area workers employed full-time. Everyone—young and old—can While there is a high degree of homeownership, senior citizens own nearly half of these reach their potential. homes. Seventy percent of families with children are headed by single parents. Area residents die at a rate that is significantly higher than the national average, experience higher rates of disease and often seek care in the late stages of disease onset. Area children are failing in math and reading. Haddington/Cobbs Creek residents fail to fully harness the area’s economic potential, with an estimated $209 million in retail purchases leaving the area annually. A Plan for Our Future 7 To realize the vision and address these existing trends, the community developed a $79 million investment plan comprised of a set of goals and tactics organized around four focus areas: children and families, economic development, affordable housing and counseling and neighborhood building. For each focus area, immediate, intermediate and long-term tactics— each with measurable outcomes—have been developed to contribute to vision achievement. The tactics reflect the plan’s overall strategy, which consists of the following elements: build on and increase the utilization of the community’s existing assets; employ a holistic and integrated approach to addressing
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