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Southern Market opens to the public at 4:00PM TODAY! 🥳 🏫

Come check out the gorgeous, open market floor with 7️⃣ delicious food vendors right from our City of Lancaster.

Come at 4:00pm to grab a snack 🍛 or after work for drinks 🥂 at Bar 1888 to celebrate the new life in this old space!

Everything’s shined, polished, clean, and ready for when the doors open at 4:00 PM Thursday. Lancaster, welcome to the new Southern Market!

Meet one of the many outstanding Southern Market Food Hall vendors! Can’t wait to see you there at 4:00pm today!! 🥳

From Morocco to Lancaster: Meet the chef making the food of her homeland at the new Southern Market From the 1880s to the 1980s, the Queen Anne-style brick building at the corner of South Queen and West Vine streets was known as Farmer’s Southern Market. Designed by Lancaster’s

Guess WHAT!?!?!
Southern Market Lancaster is opening on Thursday, January 27 at 4:00 p.m.‼️ 🥳

After opening day, regular hours are:
🕐 Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday - 12:00 noon to 9:00 PM
🕐 Friday and Saturday - 12:00 noon to 10:00 PM
🕐 Monday and Tuesday - Closed

The Butter and Bean Coffee Shop inside Southern Market, will be open:
☕ Wednesday thru Sunday, 7 a.m.-.3 p.m., and some evening hours on Friday and Saturday nights!

Super excited for the 🎉 OPENING 🎉of Southern Market Lancaster on Thursday, January 27 at 4:00 p.m.‼️
After opening day, regular hours are:
🔶 Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday - 12:00 noon to 9:00 PM
🔶 Friday and Saturday - 12:00 noon to 10:00 PM
🔶 Monday and Tuesday - Closed
Butter and Bean, the Coffee Shop inside Southern Market, will be open:
☕ Wednesday thru Sunday, 7 a.m.-.3 p.m., and some evening hours on Friday and Saturday nights!

Meet 3 more of the vendors coming to Southern Market in the Grand Opening in January!
Stay tuned to Southern Market updates to plan your lunch break trip for some amazing local food!

Job Opportunity!!!
Work with our partners in the City of Lancaster through one of their VISTA positions.

Here's just one of the opportunities, with the Department of Public Works!
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Read more below about the work the VISTAs will collectively do this upcoming year!
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EXCITING NEWS!!!!

The first 3 food vendors for the much-anticipated Southern Market food hall have been selected!

See https://southernmarketlancaster.com/vendors/ for more information and to meet these small business vendors!

Food Hall Vendors – Southern Market Lancaster The Southern Market Food Hall will feature ten chefs working in individual stations, anchored by a central bar. Stations will feature emerging and established chefs, each serving up their own specialty fare, whether local, regional, or international.

Lancaster Equity CDC updated their info in the about section.

Lancaster City is creating a Comprehensive Plan!
What is a comprehensive plan? A process to decide what’s important. A plan to guide our City’s development. A way to put the community’s voice into City government. Take this survey and tell us what’s important to you!
Learn more: https://engage.cityoflancasterpa.com/.../planning-our...?
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¡Lancaster City está creando un plan integral!
¿Qué es un plan integral? Un proceso para decidir qué es importante. Un plan para guiar el desarrollo de nuestra Ciudad. Una forma de poner la voz de la comunidad en el gobierno de la ciudad. ¡Responda esta encuesta y cuéntenos qué es importante para usted!
Aprende más: https://engage.cityoflancasterpa.com/.../planning-our...?

Want to have a say in government?

The City of Lancaster is working on a comprehensive plan. This plan will guide the City’s development and help decide what’s important. It will look at housing, parks, transportation, and other things that matter to all of us. Everyone can have a voice in the plan this summer. Together, let’s decide where we go from here.

Take this survey and tell us what’s important to you: https://engage.cityoflancasterpa.com/en/folders/planning-our-future-Lancaster?
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¿Quiere tener voz en el gobierno?

La Ciudad de Lancaster está trabajando en un plan integral. Este plan guiará el desarrollo de la Ciudad y ayudará a decidir qué es importante. Analizará la vivienda, los parques, el transporte y otras cosas que nos importan a todos. Todos pueden tener voz en el plan este verano. Juntos, decidamos a dónde vamos desde aquí.

Responda esta encuesta y cuéntenos qué es importante para usted: https://engage.cityoflancasterpa.com/en/folders/planning-our-future-Lancaster?

Lancaster City is creating a Comprehensive Plan!
What is a comprehensive plan? A process to decide what’s important. A plan to guide our City’s development. A way to put the community’s voice into City government. Take this survey and tell us what’s important to you!
Learn more: https://engage.cityoflancasterpa.com/en/folders/planning-our-future-Lancaster?
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¡Lancaster City está creando un plan integral!
¿Qué es un plan integral? Un proceso para decidir qué es importante. Un plan para guiar el desarrollo de nuestra Ciudad. Una forma de poner la voz de la comunidad en el gobierno de la ciudad. ¡Responda esta encuesta y cuéntenos qué es importante para usted!
Aprende más: https://engage.cityoflancasterpa.com/en/folders/planning-our-future-Lancaster?

Our partner in Lancaster, CAP, is looking to hear from YOU!

Take a few minutes to go to caplanc.org/survey to give your input on three key questions for future programming and partnership with the communities of Lancaster.

Exciting News Lancaster!

The Southern Market project, a partnership between LE & Willow Valley Communities, is shaping up and in its final development phase!

We are so excited for what’s in store & for the community that will make great food & build meaningful connections in the coming space!

May 15th is fast approaching and we've wrapped up our taxes!
Check out our 990 financials if you're interested!
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As the late congressman and civil rights leader, John Lewis has said many times about MLK Day, “it should be a day on, not a day off.” The Lancaster Equity and Coalition to Combat Poverty AmeriCorps VISTA members who serve our community indirectly every day, followed Lewis’s urging by spending the day doing direct service with Lancaster Lebanon Habitat for Humanity.

We are thankful for their commitment to service.

We are so thankful for the City of Lancaster’s partnership and commitment to creating a more equitable Lancaster!

City of Lancaster Receives National Grant for Comprehensive Plan | City of Lancaster, PA Partners for Places has awarded the City of Lancaster with a $75,000 grant to fund the 2022 Comprehensive Plan. The High Foundation has generously provided $75,000 in matching funding, giving the City a total of $150,000 for the community engagement process for the Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehens...

Join Lancaster Equity CDC to raise funds for the Beaver Street Park project being finalized this year!
If you'd like to learn more about the Beaver Street Park project, feel free to contact our current VISTA, Julie Heisey, at [email protected].

Happy Friday Lancaster!!

Join our incredible community on this ExtraGive day to support organizations working to build a better Lancaster.
Visit https://www.extragive.org/organizations/caplanc to give today!!

We are pleased to welcome Julie, Lancaster Equity’s fourth AmeriCorps VISTA! Thanks to all the VISTAs for their service to our community. We appreciate you!

Are you registered to vote? Watch this short video to learn how you can make sure you're registered to vote. Registration deadline for PA is October 19th.

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Join us next week for the virtual Neighbor to Neighbor Forum! Sign up via the form in the comments.

The Virtual Neighbor to Neighbor Forum is fast approaching! Check out the schedule below and don't forget to sign up (registration form is in the comments).

It's time to register for the 2020 Neighbor to Neighbor Forum! Join us for a week of virtual community building, full of learning, discussing, and celebrating! This year we are offering a variety of breakout sessions and panels, and a new way the whole family can get involved!

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Neighbor to Neighbor Virtual Form The annual Neighbor to Neighbor Forum has been moved online! We will be hosting a range of discussions, breakout sessions, and activities for neighbors during the first week of August on Facebook. Despite not be able to convene in person this year, the planning committee wants to make sure the Neigh...

Join us for a week of virtual community building!

Lancaster Equity is a coalition of organizations committed to contributing to a Lancaster where housing is affordable, where economic development includes everyone, and where neighbors, regardless of their skin color, are safe, respected, and treated with dignity. As Martin Luther King wrote from his Birmingham jail cell in 1963, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

Our hearts grieve for the senseless loss of life of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and far too many others to name here, victims of systemic racism that infects our nation. But our spirits remain resolute that we must stand up for our values, we must denounce hate, and we must create true opportunity for our black and brown and all neighbors to thrive.

As a coalition, we have focused on expanding affordable housing and quality of life in Lancaster. It’s not lost on any of us that the challenges of our neighborhoods are the consequences of decades of systemic racism at play. Redlining that made it hard for people of color to become homeowners. Economic development campaigns that disconnected neighborhoods and gutted small businesses. Greater likelihood of incarceration. Fewer opportunities for jobs that offer upward mobility. Landlords who wield the threat of eviction to keep tenants frustrated by substandard housing from speaking up.

But we also know that these communities are resilient. That people of color are leading efforts for change within our neighborhoods and with their neighbors. That black and brown entrepreneurs are starting businesses and creating new jobs. That families are becoming homeowners on streets where they once rented.

Beyond this progress, however, we recognize that achieving true, sustained racial equity will require a confrontation with white privilege inherent in our society’s institutions and policies. And each of us, including the membership of this coalition, tackling our own privilege and implicit biases. We must practice anti-racism every day.

Rooted in a belief that housing and economic opportunity are basic human rights, and clear-eyed that racism is an insidious threat to the well being of our entire community, we reiterate our commitment as a collective to invest our resources and deploy our services in a way that lives up to our name – with EQUITY.

For more information, visit out website: www.combatpovertylancaster.org/lancaster-equity

The deadline to return your mail-in or absentee ballot is approaching! Voted ballots must be returned to your county election office by 8pm on June 2, 2020.

For more information about mail-in ballots and absentee ballots, or to check your mail-in ballot status visit https://www.votespa.com/.

We are happy to have Patrick Monahan as this year’s AmeriCorps VISTA! In his first month he has been learning about our organization as well as the work the Coalition to Combat Poverty is doing. He is eager to learn more about how Lancaster Equity can help provide more affordable housing options to city residents and has already begun helping with the Southern Market project. Welcome, Patrick!

“The goals include increasing the stock of affordable rentals and affordable properties for first-time homebuyers.

The agency’s potential partners include organizations such as Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership, Lancaster Equity, Community Basics and the city housing authority.

When a property becomes available, they would conduct a "joint review process" to decide which one of them should acquire it, according to a draft of the plan.”

Two Lancaster city agencies aim to fight homelessness, increase affordable housing stock Two years after it first met Lancaster city's Land Bank authority is gearing up to begin operations — and its board is busy working out the details.

We’re excited to see this project moving forward and thankful for Willow Valley Communities and the Redevelopment Authority of the city of Lancaster for their support.

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“The food hub could create around 30 full-time and 50 part-time jobs, said Lancaster Equity President Dan Jurman. More will come from other uses that will be brought into the market — possibilities include offices, art venues, co-working and maker spaces, shops and an event hall.

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At Southern Market Center, some components could be operational as early as the end of 2020, [CEO of Willow Valley Living, John] Swanson said.

The building is owned by the city redevelopment authority. On Tuesday, the authority approved a development agreement and a sales agreement under which Lancaster Equity will acquire the market for $800,000, paid in three installments.

Willow Valley will provide the purchase funds and will hold a 29-year master lease on the building. It will also handle the renovations. The building needs a lot of work, including all-new mechanical systems and repointing of brickwork, Swanson said.

Lancaster Equity will sublease about 10,000 square feet, where it will build out and equip a food hall, commercial kitchen and culinary job training center.

Willow Valley will manage and use or sublease the rest of the building. Office space will be offered to Assets, the nonprofit that is currently the market’s sole tenant.

“Our hope is to continue as a tenant ... (and) be a support to the entrepreneurial activity,” said Assets’ co-director Jonathan Coleman.

Jurman envisions the market creating a jobs “pipeline.” Not only will Willow Valley be just across the street, it plans to operate a shuttle service to its flagship campuses.”

Willow Valley to build urban campus at LNP site, assist with Southern Market redevelopment Willow Valley Communities has won national plaudits for its campuses in West Lampeter Township, which together constitute Lancaster County’s largest retirement community.

Lancaster Equity Community Development Corporation is looking for an AmeriCorps VISTA for August 2019-August 2020. It's a great opportunity for recent graduates to showcase their skills to a large pool of potential employers as well as make a difference in the Lancaster community. Check out the details via the link below!

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"When we talk about new housing in the city, the focus is usually on larger projects happening downtown. These developments are not displacing existing residents, but this new product is building the market.

With that said, it is important to support the organizations that are quietly securing affordable housing throughout the city. Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership, Spanish American Civic Association, IMPACT Missions, Housing Development Corp. MidAtlantic, the city’s Redevelopment Authority, Community Basics, Habitat for Humanity and others in partnership with the city and private sector are doing significant work with existing housing stock and new construction.

In true Lancaster fashion, these stakeholders are collaborating with the goal of sustaining our neighborhoods. A great example is Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership’s Local Housing Investment Fund & Trust Program.
In the past two years alone, the program’s financing provided to many of the partners listed above allowed for the rehabilitation of 36 units. In that time, the Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership assisted 77 families to purchase their first city home, many of which were developed by the Spanish American Civic Association and Habitat for Humanity, to name a few."

Keeping Lancaster an affordable place to live [column] There is much warranted discussion concerning affordable housing in Lancaster and the challenges of ensuring a city in which everyone, regardless of income level, can choose to live.

Taking a deep dive into city’s rental properties Last year when I came into office, a priority was to look at how to move the needle on rental properties that were not being maintained.

Today, Lancaster Equity’s Marshall Snively presented at YWCA Lancaster’s Social Justice Lunch and Learn. Marshall discussed his journey to Lancaster city from the small town of Hagerstown, Maryland; Population: 40,000. During his presentation, Marshall talked about the major influencers in his life, which included his mother, grandparents, and great-grandparents. Marshall also addressed his experiences growing up as an African American child in the 70s and 80s; which included being asked to read the part of Jim in Huckleberry Finn, and being coerced to play the trombone instead of the trumpet because of his facial features. Marshall also shared some information on his postsecondary academic life, which began in 1986 at the University of Maryland. In addition to this, Marshall talks about the evolution of his career life, which began in 1995, where he worked at the Baltimore Harbor for about 10 years. He later went on to work for a real estate company called Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, Inc. in 2005, and remained there till 2007. In 2007, Marshall made the decision to move to Lancaster city where his partner resided. In 2013, Marshall became the president of the Lancaster City Alliance, and today he is an awesome member of the Lancaster Equity Board of Directors. We are proud to have such an amazing person, with a remarkable story on our team!

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We're proud to partner with CAPital Construction on all of our projects and properties to ensure that we are creating economic opportunity for all!

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"Aracelis Rivera, a retired teacher from New York City, fell in love with a newly remodeled row house on Lancaster’s West Vine Street and quickly made an offer.

Rivera was drawn to the shiny floors, the kitchen cabinetry and the dining room spotlights.

What Rivera didn’t know was the win-win nature of the property’s backstory, how a job-training crew transformed it from a condemned eyesore to a neighborhood gem that she would buy for $140,250.

The community-improvement initiative, known as CAPital Construction, has a dual mission. One is to train workers who have employment barriers, such as a criminal record. The other is to attack blight.

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"'We’re working with (crew members) to reimagine their futures' and prepare for a long-term career, said Vanessa Philbert, chief impact officer at Community Action Partnership. 'We’re not rushing them out of the door. We want to make sure that when they’re ready, they’re ready.'”

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Second-chance construction crew transforming condemned houses in SoWe, Columbia Aracelis Rivera, a retired teacher from New York City, fell in love with a newly remodeled row house on Lancaster’s West Vine Street and quickly made an offer.

Executive Director for local Habitat for Humanity says more need to be done about local crisis Numbers from the 2018 Out of Reach report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition show a person needs to make almost $20 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment in Lancaster County.

Check out our latest affordable housing renovation! The Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County’s construction crew, CAPital Construction, has been busy turning this formerly blighted property into a dream home for a low to moderate-income resident.

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When Lancaster Equity purchased this property it was condemned, with parts of the front brick wall collapsing onto the sidewalk and leaving the second floor open to the elements. CAPital Construction, a CAP workforce program, partnered with Lancaster Equity to restore this 5 bedroom house beyond its former glory. This beauty will now be sold to a low to moderate income home buyer. Here’s a “before” and “after” preview!