Hamnett Place

Our plan for acquisition of vacant, tax delinquent properties for stabilization is aimed at ridding the neighborhood of these blighted properties while preserving the historical character of the neighborhood, building the tax base, and providing affordable home-ownership opportunities and stable rental options and creating a beautiful, walkable community. The current focus will be used for a more extensive analysis of the structure to determine feasibility for rehabilitation and stabilization – boarding up structures, securing roofs and clearing overgrown landscaping.

This report is the Young Preservation Associates fulfillment of a promise to assist in a community development plan that outlines resident concerns and outlines an approach to reducing blight and vacancy in the Hamnett Place Neighborhood.

It is a development plan that began with a series neighborhood meetings in 2019 kicked off by a walking tour focusing on the 700 blocks of Whitney Lamar Avenues and continues with the WCDC Strong Neighborhoods initiative.

With assistance and recommendations from their working partners –  Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporations’ Strong Neigborhoods Initiative, Rising Tide Partners and DJS Ventures – this report provides the strategy to bring the neighborhood vision to completion.

The goal is to evaluate the tax-delinquent / vacant properties on every street in the neighborhood to create an overall development plan for “best use” of neglected properties in Hamnett Place.