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Inside Indiana Business
Elkhart partners with Notre Dame to unveil Benham Neighborhood Plan
August 07, 2024
“A year ago we began the process of identifying future development opportunities that would strengthen the community and economic foundations of the Benham Neighborhood while protecting the integrity, culture and people that have given life to this area of Elkhart,” chamber President Levon Johnson said. “With community input and guidance, we will focus on supporting a heightened quality of life and place through new housing, rehabilitation and by reconnecting the Benham Neighborhood from Main Street to Oakland Avenue to restore a more walkable and undivided neighborhood.”
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Gary to hold public workshops as part of downtown planning process
August 02, 2024
Gary residents can weigh in on what they'd like to see for the future of the city's downtown. Public workshops will be held, as the Notre Dame School of Architecture helps the city put together a downtown master plan.
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WNDU
Officials seeking input on Benham Neighborhood Initiative
July 29, 2024
Levon Johnson, president and CEO of the Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce and Marianne Cusato, director of the School of Architecture’s Housing & Community Regeneration Initiative, joined us in the studio to talk all about this new partnership.
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Inside Indiana Business
Notre Dame initiative helps Michigan city land federal grant
July 29, 2024
“This grant is but one of an extraordinary total of $98 million the city has received based on the design, visions, ideas and final recommendations of the project completed by the Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative,” Kalamazoo Assistant City Manager Rebekah Kik said in a Notre Dame news release.
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Chicago Tribune
Gary partners with Notre Dame to reinvigorate its downtown core
July 24, 2024
“This team has the insights, instincts and expertise, and the city has members of the community who know what the city was before it suffered its losses. They know what makes Gary, Gary.”
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WNDU
Gary launches partnership with Notre Dame for downtown revitalization
July 24, 2024
The city of Gary Tuesday launched the first phase of its downtown revitalization project in collaboration with the Notre Dame School of Architecture’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative.
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Inside Indiana Business
RealAmerica begins construction on Diamond View Apartments in South Bend
July 17, 2024
“South Bend, like everywhere, struggles with housing costs and not not just at a subsidized level, but across all spectrums of affordability, both lowercase and uppercase,” Marianne Cusato, director of the Housing & Community Regeneration Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, said. “So right now housing is very difficult to afford, costs are skyrocketing and they don’t align with wage growth.”
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Your Ultimate Guide to the Chalet-Style House
February 15, 2024
The first historical documentation of the word chalet dates back to 1328, used to describe a simple log cabin built by a farmer in the Canton de Vaud in Switzerland. “In the United States, the style first arrived through Andrew Jackson Downing’s book The Architecture of Country Houses in 1850, and it was further disseminated through pattern books,” Chambers says.
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Assistant Professor of the Practice
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Meet the architectural firm that guides its projects based on the connection with the “sense of place”
November 27, 2023
We spoke with architects Ricardo Arosemena and Tony Way to discover the creative soul behind Arosemena & Way, where art and technology converge.
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The New York Times
An Architect Who Forges Ahead in Her Own Lane
August 31, 2023
The University of Notre Dame is known for producing top-notch classically trained young architects, and every year the principals of architecture firms that work in traditional styles make pilgrimages to a spring career fair at the Indiana school to vie for the new talent.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Inside Indiana Business
Elkhart officials, Notre Dame partner to envision future for urban renewal
August 30, 2023
In mid-August, dozens of architects, civil engineers and experts in urban design working with the Notre Dame School of Architecture convened in Elkhart for an immersive study of the Benham area to explore ideas for downtown redevelopment.
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Associate Professor of the Practice
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ABC57
Community invited to upcoming engagement sessions for South Central Elkhart
August 03, 2023
City of Elkhart and the Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture is inviting community members, organizations, and stakeholders on the city’s southeast side to participate in community engagement sessions about the City of Elkhart’s Thrive Plan.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Time
The U.S. Should Ditch AC and Use Middle Eastern Techniques to Cool its Cities
July 27, 2023
It doesn’t have to be like this, though. In hot climates around the world, people have been designing sustainable buildings to withstand extreme heat for hundreds of years, says John Onyango, a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Associate Professor
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Healthcare Foundation of La Porte Final Listening Session Presentation 2023
June 02, 2023
Last week, La Porte was home to a professional team from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative as they conducted a charrette, a weeklong collaborative, in-depth design process, looking at housing, preservation, transportation, and parking within the downtown area of the City.
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WVPE
Some 60 years later, South Bend taking another step away from Studebaker past
May 18, 2023
“There are many, many bad wounds from the 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond that had to do with this new car-based urbanism that crept in and this infrastructure is now completely useless,” Polyzoides says. “And removing this infrastructure and redeveloping the edges to the river, and reconnecting with the neighborhoods behind the infrastructure could be a tremendous advantage for the city.”
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Live Chat with Lou Nanni and Marianne Cusato
November 16, 2022
Live chat with Marianne Cusato ’97, ’17 MBA, Professor of the Practice in the School of Architecture and Director of Housing & Community Regeneration Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. Cusato will discuss disaster recovery, Notre Dame’s Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, and more.
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Common Edge
Civano: The Arizona Development That Shows Resilient Urbanism Is Possible
November 09, 2022
Stefanos Polyzoides, one of the principals and the dean of the School of Architecture at Notre Dame, was the mastermind behind these innovative schemes, aided by his wife and partner, Elizabeth Moule, and their Pasadena office staff.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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WNDU
Notre Dame, Mishawaka, Habitat for Humanity fine-tune affordable housing project
October 20, 2022
"We want to build a house that will have lasting value. We want a community that will have lasting value,” said Professor of Practice at the University of Notre Dame Marianne Cusato.
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WSBT TV
University of Notre Dame, Habitat for Humanity join for Mishawaka housing effort
September 29, 2022
Habitat for Humanity is teaming up with the University of Notre Dame in hopes of creating more housing in Mishawaka.
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Revitalization begins with cloverleaf demolition plan
September 08, 2022
In the City of South Bend, getting rid of absurdly failed highway infrastructure may be the key to revitalizing a district. The federal government is betting $2.4 million on it.
