NHS and Park Heights Residents Brighten Up Park Circle

By: Alicia Schuller, Marketing Coordinator, NHS of Baltimore

This last Saturday, NHS of Baltimore staff, along with residents of the Park Heights neighborhood volunteered their time to clean up and plant flowers around Park Circle, where the “Welcome to Park Heights” sign is located. The grassy island at the intersection of Reisterstown Rd. and Park Heights Ave. was littered with trash from passing cars and in need of mowing. Volunteers spent three hours picking up trash, mowing the grass, moving decorative rocks and planting flowers near the sign.

The clean-up initiative was apart of the NHS of Baltimore’s participation in NeighborWorks Week, a week long celebration of neighborhoods across the nation, that invites residents and stakeholders to come together for a common goal in their communities. NHS chose to host an event in Park Heights because of its partnership with Park Heights Renaissance, Inc. and the City of Baltimore in their redevelopment plan for the area. Thus far, NHS has rehabbed 42 owner-occupied homes in Park Heights, for low income and elderly residents- most in need of structural repair due to safety and functionality concerns.

PHR is strongly vested in the revitalization of Park Heights and seeing the neighborhood flourish again and NHS is glad to have the opportunity to offer its services to the area. “Choosing to host the NeighborWorks week event there was a great idea”, said Tanya Washington, Chief Operating Officer of NHS of Baltimore. “The redevelopment of Park Heights starts at the entrance of the neighborhood and moves inward.”