South Florida Business Journals’s 2018 Structures Awards

Category: Winner: Community Impact Name: Lotus House Women’s Shelter/Lotus Village By: Lotus House Project address: 217 N.W. 15th St., Miami 33136 KEY PARTNERS General contractor: Civic Construction Architect: Behar Font & Partners, PA Homeless shelters have historically evolved around the needs of adults, with little attention to the millions of children in tow. Lotus Village was designed…

A New Beginning in Overtown

September 16, 2016, Posted by SchwartzMedia A vacant lot in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood came alive with emotion today as more than 300 members of the community celebrated the groundbreaking of Lotus Village, a new homeless shelter that will house nearly 500 women and children and serve as a national model for how to end homelessness…