Pearlington Community Center Webpage

The Building Goodness Foundation has created a special section on its website to feature the Pearlington Community Center. Click here to view it.

Charlottesville construction firm honored for citizenship

Martin Horn Inc., a longtime local general contracting company, has received the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s highest award for corporate citizenship. Martin Horn has long supported local nonprofit organizations, including the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, Live Arts, Piedmont YMCA, Monticello, the United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area and many others.

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Pearlington Community Center

VMDO teams up with the Building Goodness Foundation to design and build a new Community Center for Pearlington, Mississippi

From a safe place in Charlottesville, we watched the catastrophe unravel on August 29, 2005, when the eye of Katrina made a direct hit on New Orleans. As the news reports exposed the tremendous wounds along the Gulf Coast, we wondered what could we do to help. When the first group of BGF volunteers returned to Charlottesville with stories of families living in makeshift tents along the mud soaked coast, we feared that this small rural community was at risk of being forgotten. A community without hope would have many challenges that federal assistance could not address.

Inspired by BGF’s commitment to help rebuild the small Mississippi community, VMDO assembled the design team of 2rw Consulting Engineers and Fox & Associates to design a new community center.  BGF’s successful shed project in the days directly following the storm attracted a group in Weston, MA to join the team as fundraisers for the new center.

On the site of the former Community Center, the team envisioned a new 6200 SF single-story structure constructed from renewable and recycled materials. With program space extending into the landscape, the community will enjoy opportunities for community gardens and play courts, screened outdoor space, a large community meeting space & commercial kitchen, youth and senior program space and leasable office space which will generate revenue to support the operations costs.

With preliminary design completed in end of October, the design team is excited to make their second trip to Pearlington - to present to the County and the community members who contributed in the first meeting in June.