Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Do you know of cohousing that has evolved in existing neighborhoods?

[John Richmond (johnrichmond50]

My wife and I, while residents in Richmond Cohousing, have long been interested 
in retrofit communities. We are traveling through the Great Lakes this month 
and had hoped to see Genesee Commons, if not stay for a couple of nights, to 
get a taste of the similarities and differences in their customs and challenges 
compared to ours. We've come to think that the retrofit path is the only way 
other formal cohousing developments will start in or near downtown Richmond 
going forward given the increasing scarcity of empty lots and rapidly rising 
prices. Suburban parcels 10-15 or more miles out may still be able to be 
developed here using more traditional cohousing methods with more traditional 
amounts of investment capital.

We've tried contacting Genesee Commons but haven't gotten a response. Perhaps 
they don't host guests, or perhaps they're very busy at the moment.

Earlier on our trip we found an eight-house retrofit group with an impressive 
set of gardens in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

John Richmond (that's real, not a stage name)
Richmond Cohousing VA
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:24:33 -0400
From: Diana Leafe Christian <diana [at] ic.org>
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_ Cohousing that has evolved in existing neighborhoods
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Hello,

I'm familiar with four communities in cities where people have done this (most 
with cool videos about their project):
        (1) Genesee Gardens Cohousing, an urban retrofit community along two 
sides of a short cul-de-sac street in Lansing, Michigan.
                 4-minute video 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eHgnTc7Oys&t=9s....