Our Goals

• Improve local capacity to stimulate and enhance the quality of urban life.
  
• Assist communities in their efforts to leverage grant money from Federal, State and other sources.
  
• Focus upon the needs of distressed communities by providing planning and design assistance.
  
• Provide pragmatic technical assistance to communities with particular needs.
  
• Expose communities to innovative planning and design solutions.
  
• To bring the resources of the University to the economic problems of the Commonwealth.
  
• To insure that we focus on those communities that have the greatest need.
  
• To focus on applied projects that have a realistic opportunity for implementation and success.
  
• To meet EDA's new investment criteria.
  
• To undertake research on critical areas of concern
  
• To disseminate our findings and reports to the widest possible audience.