Organized in 1989, Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation (Fifth Ward CRC), a NeighborWorks America affiliate, is designed to foster holistic community development. Fifth Ward CRC seeks to enhance the quality of life for individuals and families in the community, eliminate blight, attract investment and resources, encourage commercial and business development, coordinate government and public service, and offer a sense of destination and creative place-making. Discover the opportunity to build up and preserve 5th Ward to achieve a healthy and vibrant community for all.

As we continue this transformative work, we have established goals and identified projects that are readily implementable, re-establish a thriving corridor and create economic impact. More specifically, the overall plan for this corridor transformation is to revitalize the entire neighborhood - creating a healthy, economically sustainable, and balanced neighborhood that adds value, population, and business opportunities - while strengthening the existing community fabric and identity. Innovative methods are needed for the physical redesign of a re-emergent neighborhood in terms of its urban design, neighborhood landscape, and physical and social infrastructure. The neighborhood needs to attain a successful and appropriate new image, replacing the negative branding that has been dominant. More importantly, effective methods for managing land use, development and design need to be created in the complete absence of traditional zoning and other well-understood tools to shape change in other communities. It is no secret that 5th Ward has been economically challenged but is also a community with great economic and revitalization potential.

The Fifth Ward CRC finds value in working to sustain and celebrate the 5th Ward as we work to rebuild the area, charged by honoring community memory while driving forward to include a future that will transform the pejorative view of the district that those in Houston - and well beyond – have held for decades. Today, as an established leader in the community development arena with a proven track record, Fifth Ward CRC and our partners are aggressively pursuing activities designed to improve the lives of the residents of 5th Ward. Taking a holistic approach to community development, FWCRC has expanded well beyond home building and commercial development focusing on programs that support diversity and inclusion as well as respond to the needs of the community and promote growth. We are committed to transforming the area into a place that is healthy and vibrant for residents and visitors alike.