Rebuilding the Gulf Coast1 and America’s Inner-Cities2 One Community at a Time

“Any initiatives to rebuild the infrastructures of the US Gulf Coast hit by Katrina and to rebuild the infrastructures of our inner-cities must include the empowerment of the communities’ residents so they can participate in the rebuilding of their homes and their businesses with dignity. Economic Justice and Environmental Justice must be integral parts of the planning and rebuilding processes”. Dr. F. A. Young, Esq., Perspectives from the PeaceZone

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

A successful comprehensive strategy for urban planning and re-development projects due to natural disaster, population growth, ‘economic dislocation’ caused by business flight and loss of a city or county’s tax base must have as its catalyst an organized private sector initiative composed of ‘socially conscious’ construction and real estate developers, committed ‘grass roots organizations’ and Small and Medium-sized Business Enterprises (SMBE’s).

Domestic focus is on identifying, supporting the Development of Healthcare facilities, and implementing residential and related commercial construction and economic development projects, not only in the Gulf Coast region but in inner-cities and rural areas throughout the Southeast USA.

CONSTRUCTION

PeaceZone Empowerment Network Construction Group

PeaceZone Empowerment Network construction and economic development project consulting services are planned and delivered on a project by project basis in cooperation with our select American owned construction company(ies),and the architectural and engineering departments of selected renowned Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs).

USA: H. J. Russel & Company

For over 50 years, H.J. Russell & Company has been a leader in the construction and real estate development industry.

Herman J. Russell

Chairman

Michael Russell

Chief Executive Officer

Jerome Russell

President, Russell New Urban Development LLC

(a division of H.J. Russell & Company)

Through some of the most tumultuous years in the history of the Civil Rights Movement, Herman J. Russell persevered and built a great success story. Some of America’s most celebrated skylines bear his imprint. Herman J. Russell serves on the Boards of many leading corporations and organizations across the Southeast including Citizens Trust Bank, Georgia Power Company, Wachovia Bank, Georgia Ports Authority and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

H.J. Russell & Company offers a Comprehensive range of Services

Services include but are not limited to:

  • Feasibility Analysis
  • Land Development
  • Financial Analysis
  • Construction/Design Management
  • Post Construction Management
  • Asset Management
  • $500 Million U. S. Dollar Bonding Capacity

Projects: H. J. Russell & Company’s diversified client base includes several Fortune 500 companies and mid-sized commercial enterprises in the private sector along with public sector Federal, State, County/City authorities. Click here for more information on H. J. Russell & Co.

Medical Facilities Development

The world cannot remain half healthy and half sick and still maintain its economic, moral and spiritual equilibrium. (World Health Assembly President, T. Scheel, 1951).

The PeaceZone Empowerment Network Healthcare Mission: to promote and support the provision of better and increased access to healthcare for our underserved communities.

The PeaceZone mission is undertaken in collaboration with AMSEO Industries and the AMSEO Group: planning, designing, constructing, equipping, supplying and providing co-financincing for innovative hospitals [e.g. acute-care hospitals/Mother Child Hospitals/Pediatric]. We are also planning the development of hospitals in select African venues in collaboration with the AMSEO Group. Click here for information on AMSEO Industries

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
& APPLIED ECONOMICS:

Project Development & Urban Planning

Contractors, developers, planners, government agencies must consider Environmental Justice & Applied Economics and how implementing these concepts in infrastructure development urban planning and rural planning can have a positive impact on community development and the spiraling consequences of the inequitable distributions and access to transportation, affordable housing, quality education, quality health care, healthy food, safe jobs, unpolluted drinking water, and clean air.

Environmental Justice: On matters relating to Environmental and Economic Justice PeaceZone’s Executive Director would consult with environmental justice experts such as those at the Dillard University (DSCEJ) and Clark Atlanta University (EJRC) and the architectural and engineering departments of renowned HBCUs such as Howard University, Washington D.C.

DILLARD UNIVERSITY:
DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (DSCEJ)
New Orleans, Louisiana

CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY:
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER (EJRC)
Atlanta, Georgia

Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D., (Environmental Sociology), is the Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC), Clark Atlanta University. Beverly Wright, Ph.D., is the Founder and Director of the Dillard University Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ). Both of these universities have world class comprehensive university-based Environmental Justice Centers dedicated to education, research, and service.

Dillard University’s (DSCEJ) has developed and embraces a model for community partnership that is called “communiversity”. The essence of this approach is an acknowledgment that for effective research and policy-making, community life experiences must be integrated with the theoretical knowledge of academic educators, researchers and planners.

Fields of Expertise Both Clark Atlanta University’s (EJRC) and Dillard University’s (DSCEJ) have built solid national and international reputations in a number of fields, including Environmental and Economic Justice, land use and industrial facility permitting, Brownfields Redevelopment, community health, transportation equity, suburban sprawl and smart growth.

Applied Economics: A PeaceZone Empowerment Network Applied Economist specializing in Community and Economic Development.Dr. Gloria Bromell-Tinubu, Ph.D.

  • Ph.D. (Applied Economics) and M.S. (Agricultural Economics) Clemson University, SC
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Howard University, Washington, DC

PeaceZone Empowerment Consultations: We support our clients and ‘socially conscious’ project planning and organizational networking with free web hosting and access to our Free Community Empowerment Program and web based software platforms. There is no software or hardware purchase required. Click for more information

Empowerment Joint Ventures: Corporations, Community Development Groups, government agencies, NGOs interested in Empowerment Joint Ventures with our network or obtaining consulting services on contracts they have already signed or development projects they require assistance to plan and initiate can email their interests and needs to: consultations@peacezone.net

  • 1 Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. [back to text]
  • 2 A term often applied to the poorer parts of the city centre often heavily populated by minority groups, and the society’s forgotten and disenfranchised. [back to text]

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