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The following East Metro high school student-athletes are signing national letters of intent this week — Wednesday was the first day of the early-signing period — to compete on scholarship at the collegiate level next year.
Baseball
Ben Berkhof, Hudson, North Dakota State
Tim Boncher, White Bear Lake, Minnesota-Crookston
Liam Bystol, Rosemount, Concordia-St. Paul
Jack Henrich, Mounds View, Southeastern CC
Sawyer Hoffman, Farmington, Winona State
Will Husemann, Eagan, Concordia-St. Paul
Trevor Lee, East Ridge, Wichita State
Camden Lyke, Lakeville South, St. Cloud State
Tate Marland, Lakeville South, Cedarville
Michael Miller, St. Thomas Academy, Duke
Keenan Mork, River Falls, Notre Dame
Isaac Morton, Spring Lake Park, Texas A&M
Owen Schmidt, Farmington, Winona State
Jaren Schwantz, River Falls, Winona State
Ian Segna, Lakeville South, Concordia-St. Paul
Jack Setterlund, White Bear Lake, Concordia-St. Paul
Jack Taxdahl, Cretin-Derham Hall, Minnesota
Carter Theisen, Rosemount, Augustana
Jack Thompson, Rosemount, Valparaiso
Adam Wall, Woodbury, Winona State
Will Whelan, Centennial, Minnesota
Men’s basketball
Wyatt Hawks, White Bear Lake, St. Cloud State
Drew Johnston, Roseville, Minnesota-Duluth
Alex Mattes, East Ridge, Mary
Anish Ramlall, Rosemount, St. Cloud State
Jackson Simmons, East Ridge, Jamestown
Adam Tauer, Cretin-Derham Hall, St. Thomas
Women’s basketball
Shawna Bruha, Burnsville, Minot State
Lexi Karlen, Stillwater, Minnesota-Duluth
Sydnee Nelson, Park, Upper Iowa
Nicole O’Neil, Rosemount, Minnesota-Duluth
Zoey Washington, St. Croix Lutheran, St. Thomas
Cheerleading
Lauren Temple, Hudson, Minnesota
Men’s golf
Zach Rouleau, Farmington, St. Thomas
Cullen Ryan, Lakeville South, Bemidji State
Kyler Schwamb, Farmington, Minnesota
Cole Witherow, New Life Academy, South Dakota
Women’s golf
Ava Salay, Prescott, Wisconsin
Rhi Stutz, Prescott, Kutztown
Women’s gymnastics
Maddison Reidenbach, Hudson, Denver
Jordyn Lyden, Stillwater, Minnesota
Lyden Saltness, Forest Lake, Auburn
Ella Zirbes, Stillwater, Utah
Men’s hockey
Jake Fisher, Cretin-Derham Hall, Northern Michigan
Colton Jamieson, Cretin-Derham Hall, St. Thomas
Attila Lippai, Cretin-Derham Hall, St. Thomas
Women’s hockey
Ellah Hause, Hill-Murray, St. Thomas
Abby Jeffers, Simley, McKendree
Lauren O’Hara, Centennial, Minnesota
Men’s lacrosse
Blake Bergstrom, Lakeville South, Indianapolis
Brenden Bloedel, Park, Maryville
Matthew Dabrowski, Rosemount, Lewis
Charlie Eischens, Highland Park, Rutgers
Adam Husaby, St. Thomas Academy, Rockhurst
Jackson Johnson, Mahtomedi, Belmont Abbey
Nicholas Johnson, Rosemount, William Jewell
Daniel Morris, Hill-Murray, Rockhurst
Riley Paulus, Eagan, Lewis
Tommy Peer, Mahtomedi, Alabama-Huntsville
Tate Rusnacko, Farmington, Maryville
Owen Tacheny, Mahtomedi, Canisius
Women’s lacrosse
Ayana Bougie-Martinez, Highland Park, Rockhurst
Gabriella Bouman, Lakeville South, Xavier
Taylor Griffith, East Ridge, Rockhurst
Shelby Hansen, Park, Concordia-St. Paul
Kiera Jelinek, Stillwater, Rockhurst
Cate Kangas, Hill-Murray, Louisville
Tori Liljegren, Stillwater, Lindenwood
Annika Limpert, East Ridge, Palm Beach Atlantic
Margarita Lucio, Cretin-Derham Hall, Concordia-St. Paul
Emily Moes, Lakeville South, California
Olivia Tilbury, Burnsville, Fort Lewis
Women’s Nordic skiing
Greta Hansen, Math and Science Academy, Michigan Tech
Evelyn Hudrlik, Forest Lake, St. Michael’s
Jordan Parent, Forest Lake, Northern Michigan
Women’s soccer
Katelyn Beulke, Mahtomedi, South Dakota State
Olivia Bohl, Rosemount, Northern Iowa
Jessica Eischens, Mounds View, Minnesota-Duluth
Kadyn Ellevold, East Ridge, Bemidji State
Julie Freed, Roseville, Bemidji State
Ava Grate, Rosemount, South Dakota State
Jordan Hecht, Rosemount, Army
Taylor Heimerl, Rosemount, Minnesota
Avery Heinz, Lakeville South, Augustana
Anabel Hillstrom, Mahtomedi, Augustana
Hannah Johnson, Rosemount, Minnesota State-Moorhead
Luka Johnson, Stillwater, Colorado
Sydney Johnson, White Bear Lake, Minnesota State-Mankato
Lauren McAlpine, Mounds View, Minnesota State-Mankato
Olivia Opichka, Park, Sioux Falls
Clara Paleen, Highland Park, Minnesota State-Moorhead
Shay Payne, Rosemount, Denver
Rilyn Rintoul, Rosemount, Kansas State
Nell Smith, Stillwater, Wisconsin-Green Bay
Ella White, Burnsville, Louisiana Tech
Softball
Avery Amidon, River Falls, Bemidji State
Emma Amroz, Park, Minnesota Duluth
Chloe Barber, White Bear Lake, Wichita State
Bree Beck, Lakeville South, St. Cloud State
Skyler Croker, Park, Loyola-Chicago
Bryleigh Dana, Park, Concordia-St. Paul
Macy Fry, Rosemount, North Dakota State
Sidney LaMotte, Rosemount, Wisconsin-Green Bay
Lacy Lilyquist, Hudson, Minnesota
Ashley Mandell, Chisago Lakes, West Texas A&M
Isabelle Nosan, Rosemount, Iowa State
Rylie Rasmussen, Lakeville South, Bemidji State
Jessa Snippes, Rosemount, Minnesota
Paige Zender, Rosemount, Iowa State
Men’s swimming
Morgan Gillard, East Ridge, St. Thomas
Nathan Langstraat, East Ridge, South Dakota
Matthew Mortenson, East Ridge, Missouri
Women’s swimming
Grace Affeldt, Burnsville, Missouri State
Mia David, Highland Park, Seattle
Sydney Dettman, Stillwater, Bucknell
Ellery Ottem, River Falls, South Carolina
Ava Reich, Woodbury, Minnesota State-Mankato
Annika Wright, Stillwater, Northern Michigan
Men’s track and field
Hayden Bills, Rosemount, Arizona State
Jordan Dunigan, Woodbury, Minnesota
Elliot McArthur, Mounds View, North Carolina
Ethan Starfield, Lakeville South, St. Thomas
Women’s track and field
Ellie Hanowski, Forest Lake, Minnesota-Duluth
Taylor Isabel, Mounds View, Minnesota
Delia Johnson, Highland Park, Minnesota
Sophia Roskoski, Stillwater, Western Kentucky
Ashley Stewart, Spring Lake Park, North Dakota State
Women’s volleyball
Katherine Arnason, Mahtomedi, William & Mary
Kaysie Bakke, Forest Lake, Northern Michigan
Abi Banitt, River Falls, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
Brianna Brathol, River Falls, Kent State
Ellenor Crimmins, East Ridge, Texas A&M-Kingsville
Annika Forbes, New Life Academy, St. Cloud State
Morgan Kealy, River Falls, St. Thomas
Gillian Kircher, St. Thomas, Farleigh Dickinson
Kelby Opland, East Ridge, Augustana
Naomi Romslo, Simley, Colorado Mines
Kaitlyn Sellner, Eagan, Northern Iowa
Bethany Weiss, Forest Lake, Upper Iowa
Men’s wrestling
Will Husemann, Menomonie, Central Michigan
Soren Herzog, Simley, Air Force
Brandon Morvari, Simley, Illinois
Vincent Mueller, St. Thomas Academy, Columbia
Gavin Nelson, Simley, Minnesota
Travis Smith, Simley, Northern State
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Photographed by David Hutchinson at Don Armeni Boat Ramp, that’s a “young harbor seal (nicknamed ‘Tubby’ for his good body weight) that Seal Sitters has been monitoring recently, seen cruising along the shoreline of Elliott Bay. Tubby would be one of last year’s ‘pups,’ born in the summer so would be approximately 6 or 7 months old. Harbor seals spend only 4 – 6 weeks with their mothers before having to face life on their own.” Here on shore, here’s what you should know about today:
ROAD CLOSURE: Sylvan Way is scheduled for closure 7:30 am-5 pm today and tomorrow while Seattle Public Utilities works on a drainage project. Metro Route 128 will be rerouted (info here). If you’re driving, the next direct route between 35th and Delridge is SW Holden.
JUNCTION PAID PARKING: This is the second day you’ll have to pay in what had been the four free West Seattle Junction lots (just south of SW Oregon off 44th and 42nd, on the southeast corner of 42nd and Alaska, and off 44th just north of Edmunds). You can use the new machines or pay by phone.
LOW BRIDGE TICKETING: This is the first weekend since the enforcement cameras were turned on for the Low Bridge, with $75 tickets for unauthorized low-bridge users between 5 am and 9 pm, 7 days a week – revisit the rules here.
STORY STONE CONTEST #2: The next Save The Stone Cottage contest is today – on Twitter:
Search For The Lost Stone scavenger hunt this Saturday 1/16 starts at 9am. Clues will be posted at 9am. Part of a fun series of events we are hosting to raise awareness of the effort to save the Stone Cottage. #storystones#savethestonecottage Details at https://t.co/luO5fobDq0pic.twitter.com/VO1UWIp1rT
— Save the Stone Cottage (@StoneCottageWS) January 15, 2021
CURBSIDE LIBRARY SERVICE: Curbside pickup is available at High Point’s Seattle Public Library branch noon-6 pm Saturdays. (3411 SW Raymond)
(Thursday night sunset, photographed by Theresa Arbow-O’Connor)
SUNSET: 4:46 pm.
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The growing involvement of the real estate industry in helping municipalities manage stormwater runoff with systems using natural resources is explored in a new ULI publication, Harvesting the Value of Water: Stormwater, Green Infrastructure, and Real Estate.
The report, released at ULI’s 2017 Spring Meeting in Seattle, looks at how water management mechanisms using green infrastructure can create value for real estate projects by improving operational efficiency as well as serving as an attractive amenity. Green infrastructure, explains the report, includes pipes-and-pumps alternatives such as rain gardens, bioswales, and green roofs, which are often accompanied by water storage and recycling tools such as cisterns. These types of sustainable stormwater management practices can provide health benefits for building users as well as benefits for the environment in general.
“The development community is addressing the challenge of stormwater management with creative solutions that are not only conserving water, but also adding value and appeal to real estate projects across the nation,” said Katharine Burgess, ULI’s Urban Resilience Program director, who directed the research.
Harvesting the Value of Water points out that while using green infrastructure to capture stormwater is not new, what is new is that a rising number of local governments are creating coordinated citywide green infrastructure networks including both public and private properties. Many real estate developers are responding to new regulations by incorporating the requirements into their business models, it notes. “Whether by increasing potential development yield, introducing tangible amenities for residents, reducing operating costs, or building on a broader placemaking strategy, innovative stormwater management strategies can create value and contribute to the quality of life and resilience in cities,” the report says.
While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency oversees federal standards for water quality and management, local approaches to stormwater management vary widely due to different market conditions, annual rainfalls, and climate challenges, notes the report. However, despite the differences in how stormwater is managed, several common themes are emerging from green infrastructure approaches that involve the real estate community. These include:
- Green infrastructure offers cities opportunities to enhance environmental performance and save money, compared with costly gray infrastructure projects that do not offer other community benefits.
- Green infrastructure can offer real estate developers opportunities for cost savings by freeing up more developable land than traditional water management solutions.
- Green infrastructure can enhance the attractiveness and value of a property and reduce operating costs.
- The emerging range of green infrastructure policies and strategies works in different markets and contexts.
- Green infrastructure may require an initial learning curve, but the payoff can be worth the effort, in terms of improved amenities, aesthetics, and marketing appeal.
- Real estate owners and operators value green infrastructure’s performance during peak weather events and the added security it brings to their investments.
The courtyard of ECO Modern Flats in Fayetteville, Arkansas, prominently features green infrastructure, including a bioswale that filters runoff from parking areas. (Timothy Hursley)
Harvesting the Value of Water includes case studies of several U.S. real estate projects in which the use of green infrastructure is generating added value:
- Atlantic Wharf, Boston, Massachusetts—a 31-story office, retail, and residential development, often referred to as Boston’s first “green skyscraper,” with an innovative stormwater management system;
- Burbank Water and Power EcoCampus, Burbank, California—a campus for a community-owned utility site that is powered solely by recycled water;
- Canal Park, Washington, D.C.—a neighborhood park developed by a public/private partnership and located on the site of a former city waterway, with 95 percent of the water used for irrigation, water fountains, and other purposes provided through rainwater recycling;
- Encore!, Tampa, Florida—a public/private mixed-use development with an 8,000-square-foot (743 sq m) stormwater retention harvesting system and a stormwater vault designed as the centerpiece of a public park;
- High Point, Seattle, Washington—the Seattle Housing Authority’s largest residential project (1,700 affordable and market-rate homes), featuring an extensive natural drainage system with bioswales and constructed wetlands;
- Market at Colonnade, Raleigh, North Carolina—a 57,000-square-foot (5,300 sq m) commercial development that can capture up to 800,000 gallons (3 million liters) of rainwater, including placement of a visible cistern outside a Whole Foods Market as part of the grocer’s branding strategy;
- Meier & Frank Delivery Depot, Portland, Oregon—an office development in a National Register of Historic Places building with a rainwater recycling system that saves an estimated 193,000 gallons (731,000 liters) of water annually;
- Penn Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—a community open space developed by the University of Pennsylvania through a public/private partnership and designed in response to the city’s Green City, Clean Waters plan and the university’s climate action plan;
- Stonebrook Estates, Harris County, Texas—a Houston-area residential development with a low-impact development approach that withstood major flooding in 2016;
- The Avenue, Washington, D.C.—a mixed-use, transit-oriented development in downtown Washington featuring a robust stormwater management system incorporated into a residential courtyard; and
- The Rose, Minneapolis, Minnesota—a 90-unit, mixed-income residential project designed for on-site stormwater treatment, including a rain garden and cisterns.
Harvesting the Value of Water was published with a grant from the Kresge Foundation, which is providing generous support for ULI’s work in promoting sustainable, resilient, and healthy communities.
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For the 10th year, Seafair Clowns stopped at a local school for a big supplies giveaway. Today was the big day, and this time, the recipients were students at West Seattle Elementary in High Point. Seattle firefighters and police were there to help too:
That included Fire Chief Gregory Dean:
And West Seattle’s own “Officer Lumpy” got a big smile from West Seattle Elementary principal Vicki Sacco:
Also part of the event – Stoneway Concrete and Gary Merlino Construction.
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At first glance, High Point looks a lot like any other master-planned community developed in Seattle around the turn of this century: Modern houses, townhomes and modest condo buildings with Craftsman-style details line narrow, winding streets flanked by pocket parks and planting strips spilling over with wild grasses. A carefully tended P-Patch stands behind a fence constructed from a tree salvaged from the property, and a few steps away, the West Seattle Bee Garden offers information about pollinators and a chance to see a working apiary in action. Ducks and geese paddle across a wide lagoon, and kids ride by on bikes on their way to a large park in the center of the neighborhood.
Look deeper, though, and you’ll learn that nothing at High Point happened by accident. The parks are designed to give kids of all ages access to outdoor open space—the pocket parks, located on every block, give toddlers a place to play just outside their front doors, and the central park gives older kids a safe place to hang out close to home. The lagoon is actually the centerpiece of the first large-scale natural drainage system in the Pacific Northwest, diverting 80 percent of the stormwater runoff that would ordinarily flow into Longfellow Creek. And those meadow-like plantings have a purpose as well—they’ve been placed in artificial swales to capture rainwater and allow it to filter slowly into the ground.
Photograph by John Vicory. Pocket playgrounds are located near housing.
But the most important intentional aspect of High Point is who lives there. High Point’s residents are a carefully calibrated mix of people of many different incomes, from senior citizens living on Social Security to upper-middle-class homeowners who prefer to live in a diverse community. Of roughly 1,500 units of homeowner and rental housing, about half are low-income and half are for rent or sale at market rates. This is very much by design: High Point is the last in a series of projects built in Seattle as part of the federal Clinton-era HOPE VI program, which aimed to remove the stigma associated with public-housing projects by redeveloping them into mixed-income communities, in accordance with the grand social theory that both rich and poor benefit from living together in the same neighborhoods and sharing the same libraries, parks and community centers.
Today, more than a decade after many residents moved into the redeveloped High Point, the experiment appears to be a success. And the lessons learned here are reflected in the ongoing redevelopment of (and debate over) Yesler Terrace, a compact complex of low-rise apartments nestled on 30 acres between downtown and the Central District. The new Yesler Terrace, which is being built under a HOPE VI successor program called Choice Neighborhoods, will be denser than High Point, include about 3,500 units of market-rate housing (compared to High Point’s 800), and have 88,000 square feet of retail space and 900,000 square feet of office space when redevelopment is completed in about a decade.
High Point master planner Brian Sullivan, who now runs the firm Community + Housing Consulting, says the new Yesler Terrace will reflect many of the same principles in place at High Point, including streets that integrate into the existing grid, a central park surrounded by many satellite parklets and green features such as a solar hot water system in a community building and rainwater collection.
Photograph by John Vicory. Pea patches and the West Seattle Bee Garden are among the amenities available to High Point residents.
High Point actually is the highest point in the city (at 520 feet, about 70 feet higher than either Queen Anne or Capitol Hill), and from its position above the West Seattle Golf Course and Camp Long, it has offered sweeping views of downtown Seattle ever since the area was developed in 1942.
More recent is the community’s status as a place where homeowners who can afford to live just about anywhere choose to put down roots. High Point began during World War II as housing for men who worked for companies that contributed to the war effort, like Boeing, together with their families. Starting in 1951, it was converted into housing for low-income families. Minimum rents for the one-, two- and three-bedroom duplexes that sprawled across High Point’s 120 acres ranged from $13 (for a 473-square-foot one-bedroom) to $20 (for a 738-square-foot three-bedroom), according a Seattle Daily Times article from 1955.
By the 1970s, however, High Point had fallen on hard times, with gang activity rampant and many units unoccupied, thanks in part to a Nixon administration that drastically cut funds for public-housing maintenance. In 1973, the federal government agreed to enlarge some of the units and tear down others, creating private yards and giving the area a more suburban feel. But by the late 1980s, gunfire was commonplace at High Point, with rival gangs migrating to West Seattle in response to police crackdowns elsewhere in the city.
Finally, in 2000, the federal government pledged $35 million in HOPE VI program dollars to redevelop the project, demolishing all 716 units of the very low-income housing that made up the original High Point; Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) pledged to replace them with new, improved units for low-income and very low-income tenants, along with nearly 800 units of market-rate housing and 56 units for low-income homebuyers. In redeveloping High Point, SHA wanted to ensure that everyone who was very low-income had a right to return if they wanted to, or to move elsewhere in the city (and many have), either to other SHA properties or to private rental housing using Section 8 vouchers.
Jamila Johnson, an attorney who grew up across the street from High Point before it was redeveloped, and who eventually bought a market-rate condo in the new development, describes the old High Point as “a place that Godfather’s Pizza wouldn’t deliver to, that people wouldn’t come to visit, and that the outside world was generally terrified of. You would hear gunshots frequently; there were people you knew who would get injured. It was, if not Seattle’s worst crime area, one of the worst.”
Today, that once isolated neighborhood—whose previous layout is described by master planner Sullivan as a “plate of spaghetti”—is reconnected to rest of Seattle, both physically and economically.
“At High Point, we have salt-and-pepper neighborhoods,” Sullivan says. “Instead of putting all the low-income people over there and all the people buying houses over here, we consciously mixed them up,” with blocks interspersed with public housing and market-rate housing. “When you have people in different stages of their life and at different income levels living side by side, that helps toward a better understanding, rather than having this prejudice about low-income people,” he says.
And while one early question about High Point was whether the privately owned homes that were in a mixed-income community would keep their value, that’s no longer a concern. Data from Seattle-based real estate marketplace Zillow indicates that home values in High Point have risen right along with Seattle as a whole; some High Point homes have been listed at around $575,000.
Max Vekich, a longtime West Seattleite and a leader in the local longshoremen’s union, bought into the mixed-community theory when he purchased his condo at High Point for $375,000 back in 2006. “I liked the idea of a mixed community with some ownership, some rentals and some subsidized housing.” Vekich started out planning to buy a townhouse, but was convinced by some neighborhood kids to look at the condo where he and his wife, Marcee Stone-Vekich, still live today. “They walked by and said, ‘Mister, what are you looking for?’ and I said, ‘What do you guys think is a good place to live?’ They told me, ‘We’ve played in every one of these buildings, and those condos have the best view,’ and they were right.”
Megan Bissonette lives with her partner and two children in the same unit she first rented 13 years ago, when the new High Point first opened. Bissonette moved to High Point from transitional housing in Redmond. She says the neighborhood, including the homeowners who live across the street, have always been “very welcoming…I just feel like there’s a mutual respect among the residents here.” Vekich agrees that “there’s a good sense of community that has persisted” in the neighborhood.
High Point, like many neighborhoods where affordable housing is abundant, has seen some dramatic shifts in its short time as a mixed-income community. Johnson says that when she was growing up, most kids played basketball and rode their bikes in the street; today, it’s much more common to see kids playing soccer, which is popular among the East African immigrants who make up much of the community.
Photograph by John Vicory. High Point master planner Brian Sullivan says many of High Point’s design principles will be reflected in Yesler Terrace, currently under redevelopment.
Of the 700 households that participated in SHA’s relocation process, according to the agency, 144 stayed at High Point during its reconfiguration or came back later; the rest are new renters and homeowners. About 11 percent of the renter population turns over every year. “Today, you have a large Somali population; in earlier years, it was Vietnamese, Hispanic, Cambodian and African-American,” Sullivan says. “These are normal cycles, but they don’t seem normal in the immediate time frame. People have asked, ‘Why don’t we have Somali focus groups to design what kind of outdoor spaces to have for them?’ and my argument has been, ‘No, because the populations will change over time. You have to respect all the communities, but not be so tight in your design that it can’t grow and change as the community changes.”
One thing that hasn’t changed about High Point is its focus on families; more than other SHA developments, High Point is designed for families of every size; almost all of the homeowner condos and all of the houses have two or more bedrooms, and more than half of the rental units have three bedrooms or more, including 45 units with four bedrooms or more.
Although Johnson says today’s High Point has nowhere near the number of children it did when she was growing up—“My memory was that three out of every four people in High Point were children,” she says—SHA estimates that 1,400 children live in High Point’s 1,529 units. Sullivan also points to a number of features—from narrow, traffic-calming streets to “Breathe Easy” homes (see below), constructed using processes and materials designed to reduce the risk of asthma attacks—incorporated to make High Point a safe place for kids.
High Point still has its challenges. The neighborhood is located in a “food desert,” with the nearest grocery store, the West Seattle Thriftway, located a mile away. Public transportation consists of the bus routes that run along SW Morgan Street and 35th Avenue SW, which are quite a schlep from the far corners of the community and can be unreliable; a monorail that was supposed to serve High Point was voted down in 2005, and the nearest RapidRide line won’t open until 2020 at the earliest.
Bissonette says the lack of a nearby grocery became a hardship in 2008, when a record-breaking storm dumped more than a foot of snow in the Seattle area, forcing residents to rely on a nearby drugstore for basic supplies. “We were pretty much living out of the Walgreen’s, food-wise, and they ran out of milk and eggs,” Bissonette says. Before she got a car, she recalls, “there were many times we had to take the bus to get to Safeway or Thriftway.” In a tacit nod to the lack of transit access in the area, SHA designed High Point with plenty of parking.
Johnson recently relocated to New Orleans, reluctantly leaving the neighborhood she spent so many years watching grow and change. Today, she considers the HOPE VI experiment a success, if for no other reason, she jokes, than “Amazon Prime delivers there now.” She didn’t choose to grow up in the neighborhood, where her mother still lives, but she loved her time there. “That neighborhood shaped a lot of who I am.”
HIGH POINTS
Total Residential Units: 1,529
Market-Rate Privately Owned Houses: 538
Affordable-Rate Privately Owned Homes: 56
Market-Rate Rental Apartments: 104
Affordable Rental Housing: 250
Public (very low-income) housing: 350
Market-Rate Senior Housing (rental): 156
Low-Income Senior Housing (rental): 75
Neighborhood Amenities
20 acres of parks, open space and playgrounds
4-acre central park
Pond, jogging trail and pocket parks
Better Breathing
High Point includes 60 homes dubbed “Breathe Easy” because they were built with a goal of minimizing risk factors associated with the development of asthma.
While all High Point homes include features like low-off-gas vinyl flooring and whole-house fans to remove moisture, Breathe Easy homes include many other features such as ventilation systems with air filtering, HEPA filter vacuums to remove allergens and linoleum flooring in many rooms.
A study done on some original Breathe Easy home residents found that children with asthma who moved into Breathe Easy homes showed significant improvement of their asthma symptoms; they experienced 63 percent more symptom-free days than before moving into the homes, and also had improved lung functioning. As a result, quality of life improved for the children and their families, with fewer missed workdays and school days, increased exercise and outdoor activities and lower medical costs.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Trazarien White had 19 points in UNC Wilmington’s 85-82 victory against High Point on Sunday.
White added six rebounds for the Seahawks (9-3). Noah Ross scored 15 points and added six rebounds. Shykeim Phillips was 5 of 13 shooting and 5 of 6 from the free throw line to finish with 15 points. The Seahawks picked up their eighth straight win.
Jaden House led the way for the Panthers (8-3) with 25 points and two steals. High Point also got 18 points from Abdoulaye. Zach Austin also recorded nine points.
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