Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: more co-housing like community within a high-rise condo community?

[Angela Sanguinetti (angelasanguinetti]

Hi Diana,

I encourage you to contact Greg Sherwin at Boulder Creek Community in
Colorado.
http://bouldercreekcommunity.com/BCC_WEBSITE/HOME_1.html

Boulder Creek is a cohousing community within a larger condominium complex.

All best,

Angela

Angela Sanguinetti, Ph.D., BCBA
Postdoctoral Researcher
Consumer Energy Interfaces Lab
Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California, Davis

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Richart Keller <richart.keller [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Diana
>
> Sounds like you almost have a cohousing community within your condo
> community. 20 units is a good size. I don't know of any communities that
> are doing what you are doing, but it sounds like a great idea.
>
> Perhaps someone in the Cohousing Research Network is aware of potential
> models.
>
> Rick Keller
> Pioneer Valley Cohousing
> Amherst, MA
>
>
>
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Diana Porter <porterd [at] cinci.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have gone to the national conference, have been reading the list-serve
>> for years, and had been in a forming group here in Cincinnati for a number
>> of years that is now defunct.  My husband and I just bought a condo in an
>> 180 unit high-rise condo community.  What attracted us there was a
>> sub-group of people who have been holding a weekly “salon” and potlucks in
>> the party room/common space for over a year now.
>>
>> I gave a presentation to them about co-housing and suggested that maybe
>> they could buy a larger unit and create their own common space, as they are
>> only 20 or so units within the 180.  They are trying to build strong
>> community ties.  Are there any models out there for such efforts?  This, of
>> course, is a much larger story with push back from the cohort who converted
>> the building from apartments to condos in the late 80’s and are still there.
>>
>> Diana Porter
>>
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