Casey Trees, a Washington, D.C.–based urban forestry non-profit, is partnering with Nature Sacred to transform a site at Ravenswood Road in the Riverdale Park area into a vibrant, community-centered green space. Casey Trees works to restore, enhance, and protect the city’s tree canopy through planting, conservation, education, and ongoing care, strengthening both the environment and…

Sister Clara Muhammad CDC  seeks to establish a Sacred Place at Clara Muhammad Square located at 1000 N 47th Street, Philadelphia, PA  19131.  The site is a large city park utilized by neighborhood residents, the Masjid congregation, and the adjacent church. Sister Clara Muhammad CDC will collaborate and coordinate with the Friends of Sister Clara…

Etting Street Gardens will be a Sacred Place for Black Women Build Baltimore. Black Women Build Baltimore seeks to establish a Sacred Place on the site of comprised of parcels located at 527, 529, 531, 533, 535, 537 Presstman Street, Baltimore, MD  21217.  The vision includes an outdoor space for all seasons comprised of “light-touch”…

About this Sacred Place Mount Street Gardens began life as a burial ground for the nearby Church of St. George’s Hanover Square, built between 1921 and 1925, as there was no room for an adjacent plot on the site. The Grosvenor Estate sold the land for well under its potential value at £315 in 1723….

Ark and Dove Presbyterian Church seeks to establish a Sacred Place on their campus at 8424 Piney Orchard Pkwy, Odenton, MD 21113.  The project site on the campus includes a large field, surrounded on three sides by a forest, and a parking lot on the remaining edge.  The site offers opportunities to take advantage of…

Requity Community Gardens is located in the Mathew Henson neighborhood of West Baltimore. The vision is to establish a living classroom and healing environment for the neighborhood.  Requity will be collaborating with Carver Vocational High School, one of the oldest trade schools in America, to create the space and plan for integration into the school’s…

House of Hope – Hippo Park is located at the back of House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, MN.  This area faces Portland Avenue, extending north to Interstate 94.  This larger neighborhood is diverse both economically and racially. We envision a disciplined participatory community design process, especially engaging families and children. The process…

Cooperative Community Development, Inc. (CCD) is a Baltimore-based nonprofit focused on creating an architecturally beautiful, healthy, diverse, cohesive community of choice built on mutual respect. They believe all in the City of Baltimore share responsibility to foster inclusivity and embrace diversity – from race, gender, and sexual orientation to economic, educational, and housing choice. The…

Cooperative Community Development, Inc. (CCD) is a Baltimore-based nonprofit focused on creating an architecturally beautiful, healthy, diverse, cohesive community of choice built on mutual respect. They believe all in the City of Baltimore share responsibility to foster inclusivity and embrace diversity – from race, gender, and sexual orientation to economic, educational, and housing choice. The…