Monthly Archives: September 2017

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What a bus ride up North Broad Street showed about its potential future

2017-11-12T10:30:51-05:00September 12th, 2017|Uncategorized|

For its last stakeholder meeting of the fiscal year, North Broad Renaissance (NBR) wanted to do something a bit more engaging than a PowerPoint presentation on the progress being made with its five-year plan to revitalize North Broad Street’s commercial corridor. So instead, Shalimar Thomas, executive director of the city-funded nonprofit acting as a Special Service District, rented a bus [...]

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NBR finishes a Summer of youth development

2017-09-12T16:28:14-04:00September 12th, 2017|Uncategorized|

On August 25, the North Broad Renaissance Fellows finished the NBR Fellowship Program, which aimed to combine a student’s community engagement with their academic and career goals. NBR Fellows were committed to working in a sustained, intentional, and intensive way that works to address issues in one of our four focus areas: Clean and Safe [...]

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For Shalimar Thomas, economic development and community betterment for North Broad are one in the same

2017-09-12T16:26:21-04:00September 12th, 2017|Uncategorized|

Shalimar Thomas credits a lot of where she is now to the people who would constantly encourage her when she was growing up in North Philly. As a teenage mom who had her first and second sons at the ages of 15 and 16 and dropped out of high school, Thomas felt how many others [...]

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