Clement & Wynn has served as Program Manager for this far-reaching program since it was launched in 1999, working closely with the Owner, the Atlanta Development Authority (ADA). The mission of ADA’s Empowerment Zone Funded Projects is to assist in the revitalization and redevelopment of communities throughout the city’s Neighborhood Planning Unit Y (NPU-Y). The various ADA projects impact six neighborhoods, encompassing 1,864 acres and more than 12,000 current residents.

On behalf of ADA, Clement & Wynn facilitated commercial, retail, and residential projects throughout the area. Clement & Wynn also safeguarded the Owner’s interests by serving as ADA’s representative in interactions with individual neighborhoods and with various developers working on non-ADA projects. Selected components are described below.

Clement & Wynn participated in the planning process and helped to facilitate the defining and documenting desired by community projects and specific commercial/retail users.

C&W provided leadership for bi-weekly meetings of the ADA, City of Atlanta Bureau of Planning, as well as development teams, major utilities, and non-ADA-affiliated parties involved in developments in the Empowerment Zone area.

The six Empowerment Zone neighborhoods included Amal Heights/Betmar La-Villa, Carver Homes, Chosewood Park, Joyland, Lakewood Heights, and South Atlanta. Clement & Wynn worked with the communities to revisit and further define their proposed EZ-funded projects. Clement & Wynn helped each community identify its “prima” project and get its vision “project ready.” Clement & Wynn also provided technical assistance in project development, facility programming, and coordination with the City of Atlanta Bureau of Planning.

Clement & Wynn was responsible for coordinating demolition, site survey and market analysis, developing the RFP, and managing the RFP process, which included contract negotiation and design management of the design/build team. Clement & Wynn provided professional management services of the proposed 120,000SF Village Center during the early stages of design.

Clement & Wynn assisted in defining the program scope and coordinating with the City of Atlanta and implemented the RFP Process. We managed the process for all projects along the Pryor Road Corridor, including the selection of the landscape architect.

Clement & Wynn developed the concept and produced two editions of the “Historic Southside Vision” – a community newsletter highlighting ADA’s Empowerment Zone Funded Projects and the surrounding developments.

Clement & Wynn documented community involvement, decision-making and procurement processes on behalf of the ADA.