During this, our 50th anniversary year, we’ll be sharing 50 reason to celebrate Center for Neighborhoods — one reason each week. The posts will come from different stakeholders in the organization, representing our past, present, and future.
This week’s post is written by Jack Trawick, CFN executive director from 1980-2013.
Of all the Community Design Centers created around the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Louisville Community Design Center (now known as Center for Neighborhoods) has outlived most all of them — that, in little old Louisville KY, without a university partner (as was typically the case with most of the original CDCs)
What made this possible was the neighborhood movement out of which we grew, and neighborhood leaders from all of the core neighborhoods who were (and are) so passionate about saving their community.
Jack
