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New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection is seeking HUD approval of the state’s proposed “build plan” for reducing frequent-rain flooding in five Meadowlands municipalities. One benefit of the plan is that approximately 20 acres would no longer flood during the type of rainstorm that has a 50% chance of occurring in any given year, the […]

Searching for a high-impact, low-cost design for an underutilized public space, Rebuild and the City of Juárez worked with the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, The Gehl Institute, and 100 Resilient Cities to develop a unique design competition that will be replicated in other public spaces throughout the city. The result was an innovative design

Rebuild Director Amy Chester was selected to be a resident of IdeasCity Athens, a gathering that brought together 40 people from art, design, activism, and policy backgrounds. It took place in a disused portion of the Athens Conservancy, which had been vacant for 30 years, and subsequently built-out for this program to be transformed into a

Our hearts and thoughts go out to all those impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Seeing the devastation unfold over the past week hits particularly close to home, as we remember just how traumatic a storm like this can be. Knowing that so much of the burden of disaster takes place as communities start to rebuild, we

The Point recently hosted the The Fish Parade, a day-long party celebrating the community’s revival. The Project team was on hand to raise awareness about our work and get input from the community. Learn more» The Hunts Point Resiliency Advisory Working Group met for the first time since the selection of the pilot project in order

City officials presented to attendees at a recent public hearing on the energy-resilience technologies recommended in the preferred pilot project. This project would add 11.6 megawatts of new resilient energy generation capacity, which would help power regional produce and fish markets and two schools in Hunts Point. Attendees learned that according to a Cost-Benefit analysis

WNET took a look at Hunts Point Lifelines as part of its Peril and Promise “NYC Rising” series, and spoke with Angela Tovar of The Point CDC, Hunts Point Lifelines’ project co-lead, Ellen Neises, and Amy Chester from Rebuild by Design. Watch themdiscuss flooding risk in Hunts Point and the implications for food supply in the event of another storm.

This month, THE POINT hosted a special presentation given by students from Pratt University who have been working with THE POINT and other members of the South Bronx Community Resiliency Agenda on several themes to advance climate resiliency on the industrial waterfront in the South Bronx. More specifically, these are areas that have not been addressed

Through a year-long local stakeholder engagement process, two priority categories were identified for feasibility studies: flood risk reduction and resilient energy. After careful consideration and stakeholder input, the City will be advancing feasibility studies in both categories and pursuing a pilot project in resilient energy. The City is excited to announce that it has selected

The team kicked off analysis on the Hunts Point Lifelines energy pilot project, followed by a site visit to explore the energy resiliency challenges the peninsula faces. Team members later joined the community on a boat tour of the South Bronx coast to observe shoreline conditions, identify flood pathways, and look at other vulnerabilities. These