Saturday Oct. 11th, 2014 / 10am-12 / Germantown Town Hall Community Meeting - Creating Guiding Principles for the Use of the Hall as a community

Germantown, Philadelphia, PA (September 19, 2014): The Germantown Town Hall Collaborative, a one-year-old community group whose mission is to promote the reuse and preservation of the iconic but vacant Germantown Town Hall building, will be hosting a community meeting on Saturday, October 11, 10am to 12pm, at the Germantown Mennonite Church 21 W. Washington Lane in Germantown.

The Collaborative has been meeting regularly since the end of the 2013 Hidden City Festival, which used the Town Hall as one of its sites. The purpose of this meeting is to bring the community together to create a set of principles for the re-use of the building. The goal is to give the document to any potential developers as an expression of the community’s wishes for the building’s re-use. The hope is that the building’s developer would abide by these principles, and be a starting point for dialogue with the community.

“We strongly believe that the building should be preserved, but reused in a manner that is acceptable to the Germantown community”, said Charlie McGloughlin, lead Collaborative volunteer and community resident.

To help facilitate this meeting, Germantown residents University of the Arts faculty members Meredith Warner and Jeremy Beaudry have agreed to facilitate the meeting as part of their Design for Social Impact program at the University. Germantown residents and University of the Arts faculty Meredith Warner and Jeremy Beaudry, as well as Master’s Candidates from the Design for Social Impact program at the University of the Arts, will facilitate the meeting. More active than a typical meeting, participants should expect the workshop activities to be inclusive, engaging, highly visible and dynamic-- provoking new ways to think about Germantown Town Hall.

For more information about the meeting please contact Charlie McGloughlin at 215-680-1175, or cMcGloughlin@gmail.com