PIGEON ROOST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

With residents, civic and grassroots organizations, we work to improve the physical environment and overall quality of life for residents and to support the growth of compatible commercial development in the community to provide for daily needs and job opportunities. We see a community of neighborhoods of choice with a variety of desirable housing and vital commercial areas including engaging, attractive public spaces and institutions, neighborhoods where children and adults experience an environment in which they develop strong self-images and self-confidence enabling them to improve both themselves and the community. No one of us stands alone. For successful completion of our goals we will need to strengthen and reconnect our neighborhoods."Oh, wow. That's in our neighborhood." Everybody has a neighborhood, and they are all different. And they are all going on at the same time in the same place. It may just be my street, your street or a shared street - a main street. So, how do we bring these streets together to make a single neighborhood, make neighbors out of strangers?                By making places which we all recognize, share and relate to. Our neighborhoods are defined by what we see and experience and what we remember. Urban art - a theater marquee, a storefront, an old sign, a painting, a mural, a sculpture. or some activity. ... pedestrian, professional or personal, it connects us to a place. We make those "places" using murals, sculpture, and activities to achieve that "oh wow" effect. Our first mural is on the old store building on Lamar at Willett. It focuses on five Memphis music legends. We have other locations identified and will be doing  murals with themes which relate to the history of the neighborhood.  This project is not about murals. It is about people, about bringing those people together to be together, work together, to build a better environment for our children to grow up in and for a better quality of life.