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Local News

Lighthouse Communities and Urban Pizza
Uptown Incubator, Urban Pizza to open April 1.
Madison Square Business Incubator
Madison Square business incubator has community backing for $1.7m project.
Flips Foreclosed Homes
Lighthouse Communities has several homes throughout Kent County that they are revitalizing. The positive investment and development of these properties will likely stabilize property values of the entire block, bringing vitality and prosperity to our communities.
Bringing in NSP funds to address foreclosures and blight in southeast Grand Rapids
Garfield Park and Madison Square neighborhood will benefit from an $820,000 investment in NSP funds allocated by the State of Michigan. Watch the video online.
Countrywide Settlement Funds allocated to housing agencies
Lighthouse Communities and other local housing agencies will receive funds to continue to stabilize the neighborhoods hardest hit by foreclosures in Grand Rapids.
Fighting foreclosures with Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds
Read about the effects of foreclosure in our communities and how Lighthouse will help tackle this issue through the NSP program by making improvements to foreclosed properties and returning them to homeownership.
Madison Square business district
Madison Square business district another step closer to becoming Grand Rapids' second CID

From the years 2002-2010, Lighthouse is projected to help make 700 homes and apartments lead safe.

- Lighthouse Communities' 5th Anniversary Report, page 8

Focusing on people

A neighborhood is vibrant not only because of the nice buildings and homes that are visible to us, but also because of the people that make it the place we call "neighborhood." That is why Lighthouse cares about people. Our Neighborhood Services Department's goal is to advance Lighthouse Communities’ focus on people development by providing residents, businesses and neighborhood groups with access to information and resources that can help increase their capacity, build their leadership, expand their opportunities to thrive, and promote a more vibrant community where families and their children attain a better quality of life.

Objectives

· Build the leadership skills of Southtown residents

· Increase the capacity of organized residents and community groups

· Empower residents and groups to enable them to make positive contributions to their neighborhoods

· Build a network of thriving resident and neighborhood-based groups who are actively engaged in the life of their neighborhoods and become self-sustainable

· Create opportunities for children and youth to utilize their potential for success while helping revive their neighborhoods

Please contact our Neighborhood Services Department for more information on our programs.