News Tulane wins third place in Chase Competition
On Tuesday (May 6th), a Tulane student team composed of seven fourth-year students in the School of Architecture and five graduate students in the A. B. Freeman School of Business won third place in the national 2008 J. P. Morgan Chase Community Development Competition. Their winning project “High Community Returns for an Elder Residential Development” produced an architectural design and business development plan for a Senior Village of 127 assisted- and independent-living units to be located on the edge of the Bartholomew Golf Course in the historic Pontchartrain Park neighborhood. In taking third place, the Tulane team won $10,000 to be given to their non-profit partner in the endeavor, the Pontilly Disaster Collaborative, which represents the neighborhoods of Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly Woods that were devastated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm, Pontilly had a relatively high percentage of elderly homeowners, many of whom had bought their first houses there after Pontchartrain Park opened in 1955 in segregated New Orleans as a “model” neighborhood for middle-class blacks.
Dr. Edward Blakely, head of New Orleans’ Office of Recovery and Development, helped to bring the competition, which for 14 years has been held in New York, to New Orleans.
From the Tulane School of Architecture, team advisors were Carol McMichael Reese, Associate Professor and Harvey-Wadsworth Professor of Urban Affairs; Eean McNaughton, Professor of the Practice; and Grover Mouton, Adjunct Associate Professor and Director of the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center. From the Freeman School of Business, team advisors were Rodolfo Aguilar and Brian Gibbs.
Participating students in the photo with John Kallenborn, New Orleans president of Chase and Dr. Edward Blakely, left to right: Amber Stewart, Isolda Salinas, Alex Landau, Matt Davey, Katherine Champagne, Matt Lee, George Akirtava, and Ryan Usner.
Team members not pictured: Ramesses Enke, Josh Gertler, Kathryn Gridley, and Kyle McCluskey.
Click here to see the news announcement on Chase’s website.
05.06.08