Fellow Profile
Parie Hines
“Putting pen to paper isn’t the only creative part of the process. In community development, everyone plays a role in getting neighborhood projects built. The Rose Fellowship gave me the tools and skills to follow through on the community’s vision. It was a huge learning experience.”
— Parie Hines
Fellowship Host:
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association
Seattle, WA
During her fellowship with the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA), Parie managed the design and construction of the Croft Place Townhomes — 21 affordable homes for low-income and formerly homeless people. With homes clustered around a central courtyard, the community is focused on preserving green space and creating a safe haven for the many Croft Place kids to grow up. Sustainability features, such as solar panels, native landscaping, and innovative building materials, make this project not only a ground-breaking example of green affordable housing, but a comfortable and efficient home for families to live in community.
Parie also served as the design facilitator and project manager for the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, housed in the renovated Historic Cooper Elementary School. DNDA’s goal was to transform the abandoned 1917 school building into a creative community hub while preserving its historic character. Thanks in large part to Parie’s efforts, the Center now features 36 affordable live/work studios for artists on the upper floors. The ground floor cultural arts center contains a theater, movement studio, recording studio, media lab, workshop, and classroom spaces for community events. Parie facilitated the community’s vision to make the ground floor an arts incubator, collaborating with the center’s anchor tenants: three arts-education nonprofits, a community theater and an alternative school. Today, the halls bustle with life as community members enjoy a rich blend of programs which reflect the many cultures who live in Delridge.
Today Parie continues to work and live in the Delridge neighborhood where she is a project manager with DNDA.
Gallery
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Parie Hines
by Parie Hines
At the Croft Place Townhomes, residents work together to create carved community gateways as well as artwork to place above the doors of their homes that shares the interests of their household.
by Parie Hines
The annual affordable housing fair attracts many Delridge residents eager to find a place to live, as they are able to attend workshops on homeownership and meet with many service providers and non-profit organizations. Food and games make it a community celebration as well.
by Paul Fischburg
An Eritrean coffee ceremony is part of a fundraiser dinner for DNDA’s capital campaign. The residents of the Delridge neighborhoods treasure the diversity of their neighborhood and are working to preserve that richness of ethnic heritage.
by Paul Fischburg
The artist lofts at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center fill with crowds during an open house. This former attic space now is home to working artists who share their talents and creativity with the larger community.
by Kerry Hughes
A celebration prior to beginning the renovation at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center brings together many of the community members who worked hard throughout the planning process, as well as attracting much attention from the press and local politicians.
by Harry Connoly
The Croft Place Townhomes are home to nearly 60 kids, who benefit from the strong community support system, a technology center, and after school youth development program.
by Malcolm Smith
The Youngstown Cultural Arts Center houses five anchor tenants, with a strong focus on arts education for youths. Former classrooms make excellent administrative offices and the organizations can share the technical resources of the theater, movement studio, recording studio, media lab, workshop, and classroom spaces.
