Initiatives

Mixed-Income Housing

Mixed-income housing helps attract more demographic and socio-economic diversity to a neighborhood. This is important because it can build the social capital necessary to improve economic mobility for lower-income residents and attract critical investments to the neighborhood such as new businesses, sources of fresh food, banks, and other amenities that are taken for granted in affluent neighborhoods.

Cradle-to-Career Education

Countless studies link early quality educational opportunities with long-term social development, academic proficiency, employment opportunities, and overall health outcomes. An effective educational pipeline that starts in early childhood and continues through college is imperative for successful community revitalization.

Community Wellness

Healthy neighborhoods must include a community-specific mix of facilities, programs and services that represent the vision, needs and priorities of residents, as well as the history and character of the neighborhood.

Neighborhood Leadership

A single-purpose, local non-profit lead organization is the most critical component of a successful revitalization initiative. This group engages personally with residents to be understanding and responsive to their needs and concerns, while also building effective partnerships with public and private stakeholders and investors that can help deliver the vision.

We use a proven model for holistic change and Empowering Community.

Initiatives are based on a people-first model that embraces the unique character and history of the neighborhood. Our work emphasizes empowerment, affordability, and equitable access to goods and services.

Mixed-Income Housing

Phase I of Columbia at Renaissance offers affordable and workforce multi-family housing units for up to 140 families;
Phase II of Columbia at Renaissance offers 120 affordable senior apartments for residents 55 and older.

Phase lll of Columbia this final phase will deliver 100 affordable homes serving households earning below 30% to 80% of the area median income. Sixteen units will be designated as permanent supportive housing (PSH) for families, a critical initiative made possible through Columbia Residential’s partnership with The Salvation Army. The development includes offices for staff of The Salvation Army of North Texas and a full-time on-site case manager to support PSH families.

HousingChannel and Fort Worth Community Land Trust together, we planned over 230 homeownership opportunities and used the land trust model to lock in affordability for generations. Here’s how it works: families buy the home, the CLT keeps ownership of the land, and that partnership keeps prices attainable long-term — even when the original owner sells. Families still build equity, but the community keeps affordability

Cradle-to-Career Education

Uplift Mighty is a free, public, college-preparatory charter school serving approximately 1,300 students in grades K-12.
The Leadership Academy at Mitchell Boulevard Elementary serves grades Pre-K – 5th.
Texas Wesleyan University is nearby and provides excellent educational and enrichment options for the community.
William M. McDonald YMCA Summer Camp is a program based on academic, achievement and sense of belonging l add Child Care Associates is Early Learning provider, state of the art, holistic early childhood education center.

Community Wellness

The William McDonald YMCA is a newly constructed 35,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility with a community-accessible pool, pre-school, full gymnasium with a walking track, and wellness services.
ACH Child and Family Services is headquartered at Renaissance and offers a range of services.
Cook Children’s has opened a community health clinic that provides both quality pediatric and dental care, with extended hours available to 10:00 pm.

Happy Park improvements includes a playground, flex play learn, sidewalk additions, landscape improvements and pedestrian crossings.

Economic Vitality

To maintain great housing, excellent schools, and improved wellbeing, there must be commercial activity and investments that directly benefit residents. In addition we help residents tap into employment and business ownership opportunities–making it possible for individuals to unlock their full economic potential. We have many partners to help us get there, and we are indebted to them for their tremendous support.

One driver of neighborhood success is economic development. The Shoppes at Renaissance Square, offering over 500,000 square feet of retail, grocery, and dining, and creating more than 1,300 jobs serves as a key catalyst for economic development in the area. Additional employment opportunities and retail options are now available in an area that was once a food desert, helping advance and build upon efforts promoted by the city of Fort Worth.

Neighborhood Residents

We’re creating a culturally rich, generationally inclusive, and economically diverse neighborhood for children and families where:

Social connections across socioeconomic demographics are commonplace.
Legacy residents feel valued and are part of the fabric of the growing community with new residents.
The built environment and investments in physical infrastructures support the ability of the community to thrive.
All residents feel welcomed, valued, and integram to the composition of their neighborhood.

Our generation is faced with gross economic inequities, poverty, ignorance, poor educational attainment, poor health, any one of those can completely side rail children's lives. We are creating the dream community in what used to be 200 acres of abandoned land.

Rev Carl PointerBoard Member, Emeritus