Neighborhoods
Central Park Neighborhood Association
Mission:
To plan and initiate activities which will enhance and improve the quality of life and the living environment in the Central Park neighborhood area. It shall work toward the improvement of the community's physical, social, and economic conditions.
To plan and initiate activities which will enhance and improve the quality of life and the living environment in the Central Park neighborhood area. It shall work toward the improvement of the community's physical, social, and economic conditions.
Boundaries:
Longway Blvd on the north
East Court Street on the south
Gilkey Creek on the east
I-475 on the west
Longway Blvd on the north
East Court Street on the south
Gilkey Creek on the east
I-475 on the west
Neighborhood Association meetings are held the second Thursday of the month at 6pm. Meetings are held at Walker Place:
817 E Kearsley St
Flint, MI 48503
Please verify the time and place of meetings before attending.
817 E Kearsley St
Flint, MI 48503
Please verify the time and place of meetings before attending.
2025 Board:
President: Sarah Scheitler
Vice President: Nic Custer
Secretary/Treasurer: CSVNP
NICE Committee Chairperson: Nic Custer
Meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 5:15, virtually. Call CSVNP at (810) 767-0603 to be added to the email list for meeting invites.
President: Sarah Scheitler
Vice President: Nic Custer
Secretary/Treasurer: CSVNP
NICE Committee Chairperson: Nic Custer
Meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 5:15, virtually. Call CSVNP at (810) 767-0603 to be added to the email list for meeting invites.
In 2024, CSVNP received $425,000 in grants from the City of Flint to replace roofs and paint the exterior of houses in an effort to improve neighborhood aesthetics and stabilize the housing stock. These projects will continue throughout 2025. Grants were also obtained for beautification efforts throughout the Central Park neighborhood that included maintaining nine cul de sacs, mowing abandoned properties and maintaining the Court Street triangle in partnership with Every Nation Church and Court Street Commons. $30,000 was raised to demolish a dilapidated house on Court Street, which had been an eye sore for many years.
2023 was an exciting year full of continued improvements. Central Park received a grant through Habitat for Humanity to finish the last section of sidewalk on Second Street and grants from the Community Foundation of Greater Flint (CFGF) to maintain green spaces, trim overgrown brush along sidewalks and provide meeting support and materials. The CFGF also provided funding to paint another three houses. The total number of houses painted by the end of 2023 was 26. Fairfield Village also received grant funding from the CFGF and Keep Genesee County Beautiful for t-shirts, picnic, meeting supplies and beautification efforts.
From 2020-2022, COVID-19 presented challenging circumstances, however, we were able to complete the Central Park neighborhood sign at the corner of E. Court Street and northbound Chavez, replace a section of sidewalk on Second Street, and replace three roofs in Fairfield Village. Both neighborhoods received grants from the Community Foundation of Greater Flint to maintain green spaces in the neighborhoods, and we started the process of updating the neighborhood plans. In 2022, six homes received a fresh coat of paint through the Paint Project, funded through the MSHDA NEP program and the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.
Throughout 2018, the neighborhoods worked hard to update their neighborhood plans. The plans called for a continuation of the Central Park Paint project along with other exterior façade improvements and beautification projects. In FVNC, with the support from the Community Foundation of Greater Flint and Habitat for Humanity, 41 outdated streetlights were converted to LED as a part of the NICE Initiative.
Between 2016 and 2018, CSVNP received $115,000 in grant funding to paint 17 homes in CPNA. CSVNP received a $92,000 grant from the City of Flint for down payment assistance to help buyers purchase homes in both neighborhoods.
50 streetlights were updated to LED in Central Park in 2014. From August of 2014 to February of 2016, CSVNP participated in the City of Flint's Housing Implementation Task Group. These transformative projects have made a significant impact on the housing stock. Since 2014, 43% of the housing stock in Central Park has undergone at least one home improvement project, we believe, as a result of the projects we have implemented.
The NICE Initiative (Neighborhood Investment Community Enhancement) was developed in 2009, to help promote more transformational and impactful projects beyond community cleanups. The first being upgrading the streetlights. CSVNP was active in the Neighborhood Stabilization Group meetings throughout the year. We also received over $400,000 between 2009-11 from the City of Flint HOME fund for Owner-Occupied Rehab program, and the Purchase, Rehab, Resale program.
In 2006, CSVNP implemented a CDBG grant of $50,000 from the City of Flint to correct exterior code violations on six homes in the CPN, FVN, and Carriage Town Neighborhood. A grant from the Ruth Mott Foundation for $25,000 was obtained to correct exterior code violations in Grand Traverse District Neighborhood.
In 2004-2005 CSVNP assisted two private developers in obtaining grants from the Commercial Economic Development Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Flint. The first was $16,000 to aid in the adaptive reuse of the Stockton House. The second was $26,500 for the adaptive reuse of a commercial building. Both projects were in the Grand Traverse District Neighborhood.
CSVNP obtained a grant for a comprehensive study and strategy plan for commercial development in 2002 for the West Court Street corridor between Saginaw Street and Thread Creek.
In addition to the above, CSVNP has collaborated with the neighborhoods since 1994 to plant flowers and trees, organize neighborhood clean ups, develop housing a housing inventory, partner with the Genesee County Land Bank's Clean & Green program to mow and maintain over 40 vacant lots in and around the neighborhoods, and help plan and organize events that bring neighbors together like the Fall Unity Luncheon and summer cookout.
From 2020-2022, COVID-19 presented challenging circumstances, however, we were able to complete the Central Park neighborhood sign at the corner of E. Court Street and northbound Chavez, replace a section of sidewalk on Second Street, and replace three roofs in Fairfield Village. Both neighborhoods received grants from the Community Foundation of Greater Flint to maintain green spaces in the neighborhoods, and we started the process of updating the neighborhood plans. In 2022, six homes received a fresh coat of paint through the Paint Project, funded through the MSHDA NEP program and the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.
Throughout 2018, the neighborhoods worked hard to update their neighborhood plans. The plans called for a continuation of the Central Park Paint project along with other exterior façade improvements and beautification projects. In FVNC, with the support from the Community Foundation of Greater Flint and Habitat for Humanity, 41 outdated streetlights were converted to LED as a part of the NICE Initiative.
Between 2016 and 2018, CSVNP received $115,000 in grant funding to paint 17 homes in CPNA. CSVNP received a $92,000 grant from the City of Flint for down payment assistance to help buyers purchase homes in both neighborhoods.
50 streetlights were updated to LED in Central Park in 2014. From August of 2014 to February of 2016, CSVNP participated in the City of Flint's Housing Implementation Task Group. These transformative projects have made a significant impact on the housing stock. Since 2014, 43% of the housing stock in Central Park has undergone at least one home improvement project, we believe, as a result of the projects we have implemented.
The NICE Initiative (Neighborhood Investment Community Enhancement) was developed in 2009, to help promote more transformational and impactful projects beyond community cleanups. The first being upgrading the streetlights. CSVNP was active in the Neighborhood Stabilization Group meetings throughout the year. We also received over $400,000 between 2009-11 from the City of Flint HOME fund for Owner-Occupied Rehab program, and the Purchase, Rehab, Resale program.
In 2006, CSVNP implemented a CDBG grant of $50,000 from the City of Flint to correct exterior code violations on six homes in the CPN, FVN, and Carriage Town Neighborhood. A grant from the Ruth Mott Foundation for $25,000 was obtained to correct exterior code violations in Grand Traverse District Neighborhood.
In 2004-2005 CSVNP assisted two private developers in obtaining grants from the Commercial Economic Development Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Flint. The first was $16,000 to aid in the adaptive reuse of the Stockton House. The second was $26,500 for the adaptive reuse of a commercial building. Both projects were in the Grand Traverse District Neighborhood.
CSVNP obtained a grant for a comprehensive study and strategy plan for commercial development in 2002 for the West Court Street corridor between Saginaw Street and Thread Creek.
In addition to the above, CSVNP has collaborated with the neighborhoods since 1994 to plant flowers and trees, organize neighborhood clean ups, develop housing a housing inventory, partner with the Genesee County Land Bank's Clean & Green program to mow and maintain over 40 vacant lots in and around the neighborhoods, and help plan and organize events that bring neighbors together like the Fall Unity Luncheon and summer cookout.