The 2010 Facade Improvement Grant Program is closed. All funds have been pledged. We hope to provide the grant next year and will announce the awardees as their work is completed.
Oakland Planning and Development Corporation is thrilled to launch the 2010 Oakland Residential Facade Improvement Grant Program! Please click on the link above for more information about the program and how to submit your application to receive a matching grant of up to $5,000.
The program is open to all Oakland homeowners and residential property owners. Help us spread the word! Tell your neighbors and fellow property owners.
For more information about the Oakland Residential Facade Improvement Grant Program, contact Kelly Wawrzeniak at 412-621-7863 ext. 13 or kellyw@opdc.org.
All are welcome to join OPDC and MLK at the Oakland Community Mural Sketch Selection Meeting!
When: Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Location: Peoples Oakland (3433 Bates Street, 2nd Floor)
Time: 6:00pm
Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (OPDC) is partnering with Moving the Lives of Kids (MLK) Community Mural Project this summer to create a mural on the exterior wall of Sorrento’s Pizza Roma on Atwood Street to celebrate the Oakland community.
After our community input meeting on May 19th, MLK asked local artists to produce sketches for what the mural could look like based on your ideas. At the June 16 meeting, artists will present the sketches they’ve designed for the mural.
We need YOUR INPUT again to select a sketch for the mural in order for it to truly reflect our neighborhood.
Once a final sketch is selected, OPDC and MLK will recruit Oakland youth to paint the mural in July!
For questions for more information, contact Kelly Wawrzeniak, OPDC Manager of Communications and Special Projects at 412-621-7863 ext. 13 or kellyw@opdc.org.
OPDC is partnering with Moving the Lives of Kids (MLK) Community Mural Project this summer to create a mural on the exterior wall of Sorrento’s Pizza Roma on Atwood Street to celebrate the Oakland community.
We need YOUR INPUT on a design for the mural in order for it to truly reflect Oakland’s diversity and character!
When: Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Where: People’s Oakland – 3433 Bates Street, 2nd Floor
Time: 6:00pm
Families welcome! Children’s activities will be provided!
After the meeting, MLK staff will contact local artists to discuss the ideas generated by the Oakland community. The artists will create sketches and present them at a second community forum. The community will select the mural design to be painted this summer!
For more information, please contact Kelly Wawrzeniak, OPDC Manager of Communications and Special Projects at 412-621-7863 ext. 13 or kellyw@opdc.org.
OPDC’s own Elly Fisher, her husband, and adorable son are urban family superstars in the Great Lakes Urban Exchange (G.L.U.E.) slide show featuring reasons why Pittsburghers are choosing to stay in their city! Elly proudly displays her reasons for staying in Pittsburgh in the first photo. Check out the link from Pop City-Pittsburgh:
Photo Slide Show: Why We’re Choosing Pittsburgh
Check out our School to Career program’s October 2009 Newsletter!
For more information about School to Career, contact Karla Stallworth at 412-682-1144.
The Uptown properties for sale were recently featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. What’s not to love in Uptown?
Welcome yourself home to Uptown! These great, newly renovated, AFFORDABLE houses are just what you’ve been looking for!
The Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (OPDC) is pleased to announce and welcome to its team Wanda Wilson as Executive Director. OPDC is a community-based organization dedicated to maintaining the vitality of Oakland through planning, development, community engagement, and job placement services.
Ms. Wilson is a committed and experienced leader in community development, nonprofit management, and neighborhood revitalization. She has a breadth of experience in forming collaborations, building consensus, and managing complex projects. Passionate about Oakland not only as a residential neighborhood but as the economic driver and cultural hub of our region, Wilson will draw on experience from neighborhoods throughout the city and from knowledge gleaned from other cities to make Oakland a great place to live, work, and play.
“Over the past two and a half decades OPDC has made Oakland a better place and helped people improve their lives. They’ve done so by building bridges rather than fences,” said Wilson. “I am thrilled to be on board with such a strong organization and am committed to building upon OPDC’s successes to reach new heights. I look forward to working with OPDC’s talented staff and extensive partners.”
Jeff Maurin, President of the OPDC Board of Directors, added “Wanda’s passion for the neighborhood, wealth of experience, extensive network, and natural leadership will help OPDC maintain our services to the community during these trying economic times while also exploring new initiatives to maintain OPDC as a community development leader.”
Wilson’s prior work experience includes serving as Senior Planner for the City of Pittsburgh Department of City Planning and most recently as a Program Officer for Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development. Projects range from launching a community-wide dialogue process to transforming Schenley Plaza from a parking lot to a beautiful urban park; from helping a small neighborhood organization develop a revitalization strategy to facilitating the completion of a multi-million dollar investment strategy for Oakland. She earned her Master of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University, and her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Anthropology from Denison University.
OPDC has developed over 300 units of housing in a mix of low and moderate income housing for both owner and rental markets. OPDC’s workforce development program serves over 400 people per year to link them with living wage jobs with benefits in the medical industry. OPDC leads planning efforts involving community residents, institutions, and businesses to ensure productive dialogue leading to a shared community vision.
OPDC is a committed member of the Oakland Task Force and last year formed the Oakland Zone Neighborhood Partnership Program with their partner agencies to secure investments from UPMC Health Plan, Dollar Bank, and PNC Bank to sustain each organization’s work and to enable collaborative projects.
Wanda can be contacted at 412-621-7863 ext. 15 or wwilson@opdc.org.
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