Students presenting project findings from a youth engagement activity in Spring 2019 Community planning efforts by the NDC in the Linden and Hilltop neighborhoods have created an avenue for collaboration between the NDC and the Knowlton School of Architecture’s City and Regional Planning Department, through studio work targeting these two neighborhoods. During the 2017-18 academic year, students explored a variety of topics ranging from food access and alley revitalization t

Photo Courtesy of the Columbus Dispatch A beautiful new gazebo has risen just south of the Linden library at Kenmore and Cleveland Avenue. A $25,000 grant from the Parcels to Places program helped The Micacle Garden create a Victorian Herb Garden to support neighborhood beautification, community engagement and education, and create a place to grow herbs and produce for the urban farming economic development plan. With brick lined gravel paths and a brick wall along the sidewa

At Mt. Vernon and 17th Avenue you’ll notice some unique structures in the midst of the historic King-Lincoln District. Standing out from the standard red-brick buildings, re-purposed shipping containers are being placed in a formerly vacant parcel owned by the Columbus Land Bank. As part of the city’s Parcels to Places program, managed by the Neighborhood Design Center, the Maroon Arts Group is creating an innovative space to incubate art and purvey local foods. The Maroon Ar