Equitable Development: TOD in a Distressed Economy AICP CM 1.5 Equitable development starts with a commitment to robust community engagement, continues with strategic public investments to "prime the pump," and ends with development that meets community needs and allows investors to make a buck or two. Learn how public and private partners can work together to lay the groundwork to finance and deliver TOD in the face of a distressed local development market. In Minneapolis: A community along a future BRT corridor plans for future investments in transportation, economic development, housing and placemaking. In Pittsburgh: A diverse community adjacent to a busway station attracts public and private investments for a successful project. In Phoenix, nonprofits working together to ready publicly-owned property for development and create a loan program to bring affordable and market rate residential mixed use to the light rail. Moderator: Melinda Pollack, Vice President, Enterprise Community Partners, Denver, Colorado Daniel Klocke, Downtown Phoenix CDC, Phoenix, Arizona Patricia Fitzgerald, Economic and Community Development Division Manager, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Minnesota Ernie Hogan, Executive Director, Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Equitable Development:
TOD in a Distressed Economy
Ernie Hogan – Executive Director
Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group
September 23, 2014

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Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group
• Incorporated 1988
• Focus primarily on:
– Transit & Transit-Oriented
Development
– Fair Lending Practices &
Neighborhood Access to Capital
– Capacity of local groups and
actors
– Vacant Property Reclamation
and Repurposing
– Public safety
– Neighborhood Revitalization

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What brought PCRG to transportation?
• 2009 PCRG TOD
Symposium
• Member demand
• Lack of organized,
informed, community
voice
• Neighborhood
revitalization’s
reliance on transit
• Disconnected legacy
system

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Leverage transit assets
Do more with less
Make strategic regional
changes to support TOD

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The TOD Typology prioritizes
implementation across the network
From Bridging the Busway
URA, Homewood & Point Breeze North
Neighborhoods, Studio for Spatial Practice
Access
Investmen
ts
Catalytic
Developme
nt
Reuse and
Revitalizatio
n
Community
Capacity Building
Planning and
Visioning

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Infill & Enhance
Urban Redevelopment
Authority

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Wilkinsburg CDC
Build capacity at the local scale

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East Liberty

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Urban Renewal—End Results:
While the project was founded on good intentions, ultimately it did little
more than to…
facilitate traffic around, not through the neighborhood,
create roughly 1,000 units of poorly-managed very low income housing in the
commercial district,
create huge pedestrian disconnects (highway, parking fields…)from stable
surrounding neighborhoods,
leave the city, or one of its authorities, owning large tracts of land off the main
street (the parking fields).

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A Few Statistics About Our
Neighborhood (2000 Census)
• 84% of Population is Below Median Income
• 80% of Units in Neighborhood are Rental
• Twice as many Section 8 Vouchers as any other Neighborhood
in Pittsburgh
• Only 6 Units For Sale in all of 2000
• 12% Abandoned
• 95% of housing is over 30 years old.
• 20% hasn’t been upgraded since 1939.

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Crossroads of Wealth and Poverty

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East Liberty: A Town in a City
1) Draw and Grow Emerging Markets
2) Grow Commercial
3) Affirm Commitment to Affordable
Housing
4) Stabilize Existing Residential
Enclaves
5) Shrink Commercial Core by
Growing Residential Enclaves
Community Plan’s Vision

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East Liberty Vision

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EDUCATED
The area has the greatest
Concentration of post-secondary
Educated people in Pittsburgh:
52% of people in a 1 mile radius
are college educated or above.
REGIONAL HUB
The trade area contains
8 major universities, hospitals
and the major cultural
institutions.
WEALTHY
In excess of 100,000 people
in the primary trade area have
average household incomes of
$81,774, the highest for any
urban Pittsburgh location.
DENSELY POPULATED
There are 375,000 people
within a 5 mile radius, more
than in any other 5 mile area
of the city.
TRI-STATE AREA
Anchor Whole Foods will
draw from a tri-state area.
Shoppers will drive as long
as 4 hours to reach this
destination.
UPSCALE AREA
Eastside is located on
the largest parcel of land
adjacent to the fashionable
Shadyside and Ellsworth
Avenue shopping areas.
East Liberty:

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5800 Penn

20. Fairfield Community

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Carnegie Library

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Bakery Square

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Pedestrian Bridge

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TOD Site
(Center of ½ mile
TRID radius of
investment)
East Liberty Projects
and Opportunities

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45. How it was Achieved
Staging Smart Growth with Smart Public Investment
Harnessing Current Markets through Development Activities
Growing Markets at Work and Affirm Equity
Securing Site Control
Position the Neighborhood as Risk/Reward Sharing Partner
for projects and moving forward
Confirming the Community Vision moving forward
Addressing the Community Challenges as they arise

46. East Liberty by the Numbers
• New Commercial 857,420
• New Office 450,400
• New Housing Units 900
– Affordable Units 600
– Supportive Housing Units 60
• Hotel Rooms 395
• Jobs Created 4,080
• Annual Net Tax Revenues $15,352,946.44