ZACHARY FAGENSON | NOVEMBER 20, 2018 | 8:30AM Luciana Lamont serving mozzarella and tomato bites at the announcement of the Centner Foundation’s $2 million gift to Lotus House. Courtesy of Lotus House Lotus House’s Culinary Center Will Train a New Crop of Women Cooks Luciana Lamont was doing her best to make ends meet as a cook at North…
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…
Once-homeless women will soon be training for jobs in the restaurant and hospitality industry, thanks to a multi-year, multimillion-dollar pledge from a Miami-born entrepreneur. When David Centner and his family moved to Miami from New York about 18 months ago, he and his wife Leila looked for charitable opportunities that aligned with their focus: helping…
Jessie Trice Community Health System welcomed its newest health center to the Overtown community on the Lotus Village campus. Smiles lit up faces of staff and friends of Jessie Trice and Lotus Village on Aug. 11 as they prepared to cut the big red ribbon with a pair of big blue scissors. “I would say…
BY SIOBHAN MORRISSEY November 04, 2017 12:29 PM Updated November 10, 2017 11:42 AM Like a perfect haiku, the Pop Art exhibit at the Margulies Collection says a lot with so little. The Japanese poetry style conveys abundant meaning in just 17 syllables. Similarly, collection founder Martin Z. Margulies uses just 17 works — if…
The village will provide shelter, a clinic and a wellness center Special to The Miami Times | Updated Sep 28, 2016 The construction of Lotus Village kicked off Sept. 16 with a groundbreaking ceremony at the project site in Overtown. Once completed, the location will increase its total capacity from 250 to 490 homeless women, youth…
El viernes el personal de Lotus House, mujeres y niños que viven o han vivido en el albergue y funcionarios de Miami-Dade se reunieron en el terreno donde se levantará el edificio, para celebrar el inicio de la construcción. Crystal Resper tenía siete meses de embarazo cuando llegó al albergue para mujeres Lotus House, en…
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…
