Effort is part of university’s Neighborhood Renewal Initiative to help improve surrounding community

Troy, N.Y. — Fourth- and fifth-year architecture students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will work alongside professional planners, architects, and engineers to explore quality of life issues in the neighborhoods north of campus. The workshop will be held Saturday, Oct. 20, 9 a.m. -1:30 p.m., at the Heffner Alumni House on Peoples Avenue.

The students are part of a collaborative effort with Rensselaer’s School of Architecture and Campus Planning & Facility Design (CP&FD). The university is teaming up with the Hillside and Beman Park Neighborhood associations, Capital District Community Gardens, and TAP (Troy Architectural Program) to improve the area between Sage and Peoples avenues to Hoosick Street, and 8th to 17th streets.

“Our objective is to assist the residents and business owners of the neighborhood in developing a vision for the future of their neighborhood through architectural, environmental and community design,” says Barb Nelson, Rensselaer project manager and Troy resident.

The event, the first of two such meetings, is a Rensselaer Neighborhood Renewal Initiative, managed by the CP&FD administration division. The second workshop will be held Nov 10.

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