Pittsburgh Yards, a 31-acre entrepreneurial ecosystem located on University Avenue just southwest of downtown in the historically Black community of Pittsburgh, received a 2023 “Community Design Award” from the City of Atlanta’s Urban Design Commission (UDC) during the 45th Annual Awards of Excellence and the 6th Annual Community Design Awards on Friday evening, June 23, 2023. Pittsburgh Yards (PY) was created, with deliberate and significant contributions from the community, to spur economic equity, job growth and entrepreneurship for residents of Adair Park, Capitol Gateway, Mechanicsville, Peoplestown, Pittsburgh and Summerhill. PY opened in late 2020 as an economic catalyst that serves as a commercial, recreational and community anchor offering co-working memberships, affordable office space, along with entrepreneurship and wealth-building opportunities for members, tenants and residents in the communities located in Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) V.
The Atlanta UDC Awards of Excellence honor excellence in urban planning, including but not limited to new construction, historic preservation, public areas and landscape design, and their Community Design Awards are for projects, programs, or people who have worked to make the city or a neighborhood a better place to live. The Community Design Awards are voted on by Neighborhood Planning Units. PY was nominated by the chair of NPU-V, Stephanie Flowers, who was a part of the community planning team that helped shape Pittsburgh Yards starting in 2017 through its opening in late 2020 and today.
“What’s most meaningful about receiving this award is that the nomination was put forth by a community leader who has been a part of the community for most of her life and who has been a part of the project from the very beginning,” said Kweku Forstall, director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Atlanta Civic Site. “She sees our commitment to staying…
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