OKC: A World-Class City full of Great Neighborhoods!
All of the OKC residents are bursting with pride in what is happening in this City. Bricktown, Devon Tower, Thunder, low unemployment and low cost of living all contribute to a great feeling of pride that is city wide right now. At Neighborhood Alliance we too are proud of this world-class City atmosphere we have all helped create, but we are bursting with pride over the smaller accomplishments…the beautiful, unique neighborhoods that we all call home.
We are proud of Meadowbrook Acres, located at the base of the energy giant, Chesapeake. They are a small, artsy kind of neighborhood with a rich history. When they saw their neighborhood being swallowed up they went knocking on the giants door. After all, that is what neighbors do. The giant talked with them and together they created a plan to save the neighborhood and to even make some improvements. They were not intimidated by the wealth or size of Chesapeake, they treated them just like a neighbor and it worked.
We are proud of Mayfair West, located along N. May Ave. near NW 45th St. This neighborhood is filled with tidy, mid-century modern homes and young couples with young children. They created a Neighborhood Association that is unique and fits their needs: they have scrapbooking classes, decorating swap meets, wine and cheese parties, and neighborhood wide play dates for the kids. They are a social, relatively crime free neighborhood that has people snatching up homes as soon as they go on sale. The neighborhood association worked hard to create that feel and they have succeeded.
We are proud of College Hill neighborhood located near the beautiful Mt. St. Mary’s High School on SW 25th St. This predominately Hispanic neighborhood has a very active neighborhood association that has raised money to install beautiful ornamental lights, participated in a “front porch” project where they remodeled the front porches of 6 seniors in the neighborhood so they could spend more time outdoors and be part of the social feel of those around them, and they are currently taking orders for homemade tamales to raise funds for their future projects. They are a tidy, well kept, tight neighborhood that meets the needs of their neighbors and the Association is proud of all it has accomplished.
We could go on forever talking about the over 400 different neighborhood associations in the OKC area and how they all contribute to making this City the ‘world-class’ community that it is. It makes it easier to persuade corporations like Boeing and Dell to locate in our City when their executives see the great neighborhoods their employees can call home.
Neighborhood Alliance is a 35 year old non-profit agency housed in the old firehouse at NW 36th and Classen and provides services to over 400 different neighborhoods throughout the Metro OKC. Becoming a neighborhood leader and organizing and maintaining a neighborhood does not come easy. That is why all neighborhoods depend on the work of Neighborhood Alliance. Through seminars, training classes and one-on-one advocacy neighborhoods receive the tools needed to make each neighborhood safe, beautiful and healthy.
As a non-profit organization Neighborhood Alliance is dependant on donations to exist and April through June is the annual fundraising drive. When you donate to Neighborhood Alliance you are supporting the fabric of our City and great neighborhoods like Meadowbrook Acres, Mayfair Heights, College Hill or even your own neighborhood. Tax deductible donations can be made through the website at www.nacok.org or by mailing a check to Neighborhood Alliance, 1236 NW 36th St., Okc, Ok, 73118.
After all, what good is Bricktown or a Thunder game if we don’t have safe and great neighborhoods to go home to when the downtown fun is all over?
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