Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: New York City Co-Housing

[Chris ScottHanson (chris]

Jamaica Plain Cohousing (in Boston) is in one building, as well,  
bridging an old stream corridor on the two upper levels.  30 units  
(and 45 on grade parking spaces) on less than an acre with open space  
and gardens.

http://www.jpcohousing.org/

Chris


On Dec 27, 2006, at 7:10 AM, Ann Zabaldo wrote:

> Hello all --
>
> One building wonders!
>
> I'm sure Jessie will add to this thread --Eastern Village Cohousing
> in Silver Spring, MD is a conversion of an old office building into
> 56 units of cohousing and 11 units of commercial property on under
> 1/3rd acre..   Takoma Village in Washington, DC is a U shaped
> community of 43 units on 1.43 acres and is technically considered 1
> building as all the homes are attached and many of them are "stacked
> units" -- sorta like apt. units.    Swan's Market in Oakland is on
> two floors of a converted market building in downtown Oakland, CA.
> I believe that Quayside in Canada is also one building.  I love
> living in close proximity to my neighbors altho' it's definitely not
> for everyone.
>
> Cambridge Cohousing in MA has at least one building w/ a majority of
> the homes and then a second area w/ town homes (I think -- my memory
> is a little fuzzy here.)
>
> All of these communities are urban infill.
>
> Ann Zabaldo
> Takoma Village Cohousing
> Washington, DC
>
> On Dec 27, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Fred H Olson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 Sarah  (girlact [at] hotmail.com) wrote:
> >
> > > Just wondering if anyone has any information on any co-housing  
> > > groups
> > > that have existed or tried to exist in the New York City  
> > > metropolitan
> > > area?
> >
> > > Also what are the most urban co-housing communities?  Especially
> > > looking
> > > for ones that exist in one contained building.  Thanks for the
> > > help as
> > > my partner and I are interested in the concept in New York and I
> > > want to
> > > know about the feasibility, the groups already formed in the area  
> > > and
> > > the communities that have made a go of it in tight inflated urban
> > > settings.
> >
> > Search the old cohousing-L (via link at bottom of every message).
> > It seems
> > like NYC comes up from time to time.  In particular (2/6/06),
> > http://lists.cohousing.org/pipermail/cohousing-l/msg22873.html
> >
> > > Larry, who lived at Ganas years ago, is revitalizing the IC meet-up
> > > group in NYC.It was limping along for a year until the first
> > > convenor,
> > > Susan, decided to let go.  We'll see what happens.  If you know
> > > anyone
> > > in the NYC area interested in coho or community in general, please
> > > tell them about this group.  It's free to sign up.  Go to:
> > >
> > > http://intentionalcomm.meetup.com/55/
> >
> > My page http://mn.cohousing.org/urban may be of interest.  One big
> > building cohousing is unusual in the US but exists.  See BO-90
> > (Denmark)
> > and Fardknappen (Sweden) , their sites are not in English but have
> > pictures.  (Search for them in Cohousing-L, I've written about them.)
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > --
> > Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
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> > fholson at cohousing.org   612-588-9532   (7am-10pm Central time)
> >
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