COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

The Save Our Soul Coalition has dedicated time and energy to a robust community led process that helped shape the vision of this project. Starting in January of this year the coalition begin to meet with people all across the city to identify both the reasons not to place a city building in the park but to invest in the cultural economy of this community. From marches to design charettes and community meetings SOS has invested considerable time and energy to meet the administrations challenge. The members of this coalition connected with 358 community members through a substaintial survey, talked and convened hundreds in person. Ultimately this community has been arguing for this type of investment since the Claiborne Avenue Design Team released their report in 1974 and we intend to continue bringing the peoples voice into the design and development of all significant investment moving forward.