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.
How hope, dreams are improving Charlotte neighborhood Mary Elizabeth DeAngelis: May 02, 2018 New initiative takes cradle-to-career approach to improving lives in Renaissance West In a cozy room filled with windows, books and cheerful posters, two kindergartners practice letter sounds by playing a picture game on a carpet mat. A few doors down, third-graders […]
Charlotte Organizations Use Early Childhood Education To Help Break Poverty Cycle By Jessa O’Connor • 5/1/2018 A Charlotte study that came out last year identified access to quality pre-kindergarten education as a key factor in making sure that children who are born into poverty have a chance of rising out of it in their lifetimes. […]
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 […]
