Sustainable Communities Neighborhood Profiles: Duluth, Minnesota
Date Published: 08/05/2011
Author: LISC
Back in 2007, Clyde Ironworks in Duluth was a virtual ghost town. The once-belching manufacturing bulwark had employed thousands of Duluth’s residents for more than a century. But over time, like so many other industrial age plants, it had become a dormant eyesore—a sprawling, rusting, overgrown testimony to job loss and stagnation in the center of the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.
That was before Duluth LISC and local developer Alessandro Giuliani drove an effort to transform the site from an aging environmental hazard to a vibrant focal point for this community. Today, where red hot furnaces once steamed, kids now squeal and cheer at the Duluth Heritage Sports Center—overseen by a coalition of local partners—and a neighborhood Boys and Girls Club. Their hockey rinks, athletic fields and youth programs are drawing people into this community, thanks in part to a grant from the LISC/NFL Grassroots program as well as LISC New Markets Tax Credits. Continued[+]...
Topic: --Community Development
Type: Case study / model practice