{"id":96773,"date":"2020-10-09T17:35:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=96773"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:37:42","slug":"palmdales-courson-arts-colony-wins-helen-putnam-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/10\/09\/palmdales-courson-arts-colony-wins-helen-putnam-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale\u2019s Courson Arts Colony wins Helen Putnam Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[L to R] Palmdale City Manager J.J. Murphy, Capital Improvement Program Manager Lynn Glidden, Housing Manager Sophia Reyes, and Mayor Steve Hofbauer. [Contributed image]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale\u2019s Courson Arts Colony<\/strong> (CAC) was awarded the 2020 Helen Putnam Award<\/em> for excellence in the category of Housing Programs and Innovations by the League of California Cities at its virtual annual conference held Thursday, Oct. 8.<\/p>\n

This award comes just months after Palmdale and the CAC won the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) 2020 Sustainability Award<\/em>, also in the Housing Innovation category.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CAC has been a project 20-years in the making that required strong commitment from City staff, City Council, and the community,\u201d said Palmdale Mayor Steve Hofbauer. \u201cI am proud to have worked with City Council on this important project. It\u2019s the latest piece of revitalization and housing innovation that also includes Legacy Commons for Active Seniors, two dedicated senior housing complexes, and the newly renovated Courson Park and Pool, Palmdale\u2019s first park and pool and considered to be the heart of the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not be any prouder of our staff who have collaborated over the years to create a unique experience that provides much needed affordable housing and important resources,\u201d said Palmdale City Manager J.J. Murphy. \u201cThe CAC has added to the city center two modern three-story affordable housing complexes providing 160 units for families and individuals earning 50 percent or less of the area median income, and 60 of these units are permanent supportive housing apartments already serving medically complex veteran and non-veteran households experiencing homelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCity Housing staff met with community members, groups and partners,\u201d said Director of Neighborhood Services Mike Miller. \u201cOur community overwhelmingly agreed that not only did we need to house our homeless veterans and other homeless individuals but provide a greater quality of life. The CAC is designed as an arts-oriented community, with amenities meant to provide spaces to inspire a healthy, healing, and creative lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of those amenities include a community clubhouse, game rooms, homework rooms, art studios, dance studio, computer and learning spaces, fitness center, bicycle repair and storage space, an art walk and a fully functioning non-profit art gallery. It also has many outdoor amenities, including an amphitheater, picnic areas, a toddler playground, and community gardening areas. Today, the CAC is home to the people and families it was planned and designed to serve, and the entire neighborhood and City has felt the positive impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been amazing to see the goals of the project achieved and to watch these three blocks and this neighborhood transform,\u201d said Housing Manager Sophia Reyes. \u201cWe have worked hard to restore this neighborhood. Today, it is again a place that residents are proud to call home.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]<\/em><\/h6>\n

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PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale\u2019s Courson Arts Colony (CAC) was awarded the 2020 Helen Putnam Award for excellence in the category of Housing Programs and Innovations by the League of California Cities at its virtual annual conference held Thursday, Oct. 8. This award comes just months after Palmdale and the CAC won the Southern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}