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In
the early 1990s, a committee of concerned citizens
joined to create the Greater Citizens Coalition of
Martindale Brightwood (GCCMB), an organization dedicated
to the revitalization of the area. In 1992,
GCCMB created the MBCDC which was originally intended
to serve as a real estate organization only.
As it matured the scope of the community development
needs broadened and MBCDC expanded its range of services
to meet these challenges.
The
CDC serves approximately 9,335 residents., The area
is over 93 percent African-American with over 35 percent
of households designated as low-income. A female
heads thirty-four percent of households and 27 percent
have a child or children under the age of 18 years
old. The median income is less than $25,000
annually.
*Homeownership activities
*Construction
of single family homes
*Home
repair assistance
*Rental
housing development
*Home
weatherization
*Special
needs housing
*Commercial/business
development
*Individual
Development Accounts program
*Community
Organizing
MBCDC
produces affordable housing through aquisition and
rehabilitation of existing units, as well as new construction.
MBCDC also operates a home repair program that assists
low to moderate-income homeowners with repairs.
MBCDC commercial real estate activities include Genesis
Plaza, which provides a home for a number of community
and neighborhood organizatoins and services.
MBCDC has an ongoing relationship
with a variety of community and corporate partners,
including the Greater Citizens Coalition of Martindale-Brightwood
(GCCMB), the City of Indianapolis, the Indiananapolis
Neighborhood Housing Partnership, Annie E. Casey Foundation,
Indianapolis Foundation, US Department of Health and
Human Services, the Indiana Urban Enterprise Association,
HealthNet, Indiana OIC State Council, Edna Martin
Christian Center, Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource
Center, United Way of Central Indiana, Purdue University,
National City Bank, First Indiana Bank and Fifth-Third
Bank.
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To assist the community
in directing its own economic destiny through partnerships
that revitalize housing and encourage social, human
and economic development.
MBCDC is bounded on the
east by Sherman Drive, on the south by 21st Street
and Massachusetts Avenue, by Albord Street and the
Monon Trail on the west and by 30th Street to the
north.
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here to view location map.
President, Elizabeth Gore
Vice President, Rev. Richard Fields Secretary,
Dorothe Stepp
Treasurer, Alice Jones
Josephine
Rogers
Operations
Manager
Martindale
Brightwood CDC
2855
N. Keystone Avenue, Suite 130
Indianapolis,
IN 46218
Tel:
317-924-8042
Fax:
317-924-8043
Email:
exdirmbdcd@earthlink.net
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