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From: abigail weinberg (withhashemyahoo.com) | |
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 20:23:15 -0800 (PST) |
My Name is Abby Weinberg and I am working on retrofitting a church into 20 cohousing condos in Philadelphia for Wissahickon Village Cohousing (WVC). I am very new to this game and hardly an expert, but would be happy to offer my experience to the greater good at the conference. I really look forward to meeting many of you at the conference! Also, the model my group is using is a bit different that how I understand traditional cohousing development to go. We are working with a developer who was planning to retrofit a church into condos before he ever met us. We think that the developer decided to contact us because the church has a pre-existing industrial kitchen and "cafetorium" on the lower level which he recognized might be good for cohousing. Since the church is in an excellent location AND because the developer was going to assume all of the financial risk of development, our group decided to try and work with him. We have been meeting for over a year with him and he just got zoning approval and will be closing on the purchase of the church next week. He has a agreed to let our group have exclusive right of sale (i.e. - try to sell all units to cohousing-minded people) for 6 months *IF* we buy 7 units in the first 30 days of sales. The Pros include: We only put in money when we buy our units and we have a real developer doing all the hard development work that we don't really have to pay until we purchase a unit. The Cons include: We give up a lot of control - especially over design... Although he has been very receptive and generous with his time, the developer is clear that whatever he builds needs to be marketable beyond the cohousing market in case we can't sell all the units and he needs to see the remaining units to "civilians." There is more to the story, but hopefully you get the idea. I am curious to know whether this is as novel a way of doing cohousing as I think it is, or if other communities got built this way. Appreciatively, Abby Abigail Weinberg Community Coordinator, Wissahickon Village Cohousing Home: 215-842-0268 Cell: 734-474-6958 abbyweinberg [at] alum.barnard.edu Cohousing: Building a better society, one house at a time! ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:30:35 -0800 From: Jane Calbreath <jane.calbreath [at] gmail.com> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Subject: [C-L]_ Retrofit Cohousing Panel for National Conference in NC Message-ID: <D081449B.DDB7%jane.calbreath [at] gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Dear Cohousers: I am a Coho US board representative serving on the conference committee for next year?s CohoUS National Conference taking place in Durham, North Carolina in May 2015. We have scheduled a panel session on ?Retrofited Cohousing? and I am interested in connecting with cohousers from existing retrofit communities to participate on our panel. We are specifically interested in people who are located in the eastern part of the US, and feel free to contact me if you are interested or have a recommendation of someone who would be a good spokesperson for this presentation. Kevin Wolf from N St. Cohousing in Davis, CA has already agreed to be part of the panel. We would like to cover the legal issues and the process that are involved. Thank you in advance, Jane Calbreath California Rep Board Member www.cohousing.org
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Retrofit Cohousing Panel for National Conference in NC Jane Calbreath, November 6 2014
- Re: Retrofit Cohousing Panel for National Conference in NC Diane, November 7 2014
- Re: Retrofit Cohousing Panel for National Conference in NC Sharon Villines, November 7 2014
- Retrofit Cohousing Panel for National Conference in NC abigail weinberg, November 8 2014
- Re: Retrofit Cohousing Panel for National Conference in NC R Philip Dowds, November 9 2014
- Re: Retrofit Cohousing Panel for National Conference in NC Sharon Villines, November 9 2014
- Re: Retrofit Cohousing Panel for National Conference in NC Grace Kim, November 10 2014
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