In 2012, Renaissance West Community Initiative (RWCI) was established to revitalize the Boulevard Homes public housing site into a vibrant village called The Renaissance. Our initiative uses a holistic community redevelopment approach, focusing on multiple critical factors, including mixed-income housing, educational opportunities, youth and adult development programs, health and wellness services and commercial investment. The Renaissance completed construction in 2016 and consists of 334 units of mixed-income housing. Our Education Village is comprised of the Renaissance West STEAM Academy (RWSA) that opened in 2017 and the Howard Levine Child Development Center (HLCDC) that opened this year in 2018. Please view the video to the right to see more about our mission and our hope for the community..
If you are interested in learning more or enrolling your child at the Howard Levine Child Development Center, please click HERE. If you would like to learn more information about the Renaissance West STEAM Academy, please click HERE.
A Sense of Place. A Point of Pride. March 29, 2018 | By ASC Charlotte Categories: Blog, Home Featured Monique Luck’s “Welcoming Dreams,” a mosaic she created in 2016 with artistic input from residents, signals a new day for the Renaissance West community. The mixed-income community is what became of the Boulevard Homes, the formerly […]
An Educational Pipeline Comes to Life in Charlotte In their navy blue and gold uniforms, 400 students entered the new K-5 Renaissance West STEAM Academy on the west side of Charlotte, North Carolina on a fall morning in 2017. This day was the first of many designed to get the students on a new trajectory […]
Bringing New Hope to Neighborhoods For decades, Spartanburg’s Northside community and Charlotte’s Boulevard Homes neighborhood grappled with the same problems. They endured high poverty and crime rates, poor educational outcomes and substandard housing. They gained reputations as magnets for inner-city blight. Thankfully, they now share a more hopeful distinction. They’re part of the Purpose-Built Communities […]
