G&P staff were recently in Paris for kickoff meetings at the American Battle Monuments Commission Overseas Office where they were conducting multiple site visits to American World War I and World War II cemeteries and monuments resulting in an agency-wide preservation context study for the American Battle Monuments Commission.
American Battle Monuments Commission Survey in Paris
Virginia Solar Summit
Recently, staff from Gray & Pape enjoyed attending the Virginia Solar Summit at the beautiful Altria Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. This amazing networking event included two days of informative presentations and many opportunities to meet others in the solar industry.
COVID-19 Business Continuity Statement
Our core values drive two essential commitments that have heightened relevance today: We commit to assuring the health and safety of our employees, their families, our business partners, and the community. We commit to delivering a high level of service to our clients and partners in support of their projects and program goals.
Maintaining our commitments during these challenging times requires special consideration and action. In response to recommendations from public health officials, we have taken, or are taking, the following steps:
• Transitioned to a “work from home” protocol;
• Implemented a comprehensive plan to continue project fieldwork while assuring the health and safety of our employees and the community;
• Implemented heightened personal hygiene and workplace sanitization;
• Canceled or postponed in-person meetings and moved them to virtual environment;
• Canceled nonessential domestic air travel and postponed all international air travel; and
• Providing employees with regular updates to make sure each employee has the latest information on the COVID-19 virus.
Our project teams have been working and providing services across the country for a long time. Working remotely is in our DNA, this is not new territory for us. Our operational framework has been designed to maintain location flexibility; the way we work on projects will not change. Our core functions remain in place to support your project needs as we navigate these unprecedented times.
Gray & Pape is unwavering in our focus and dedication to our core values of health, safety, and service during these trying times. We hope you and your loved ones remain healthy and safe.
W. Kevin Pape
President
Gray & Pape Heritage Management
COVID-19 Business Continuity Statement
Our core values drive two essential commitments that have heightened relevance today: We commit to assuring the health and safety of our employees, their families, our business partners, and the community. We commit to delivering a high level of service to our clients and partners in support of their projects and program goals.
Maintaining our commitments during these challenging times requires special consideration and action. In response to recommendations from public health officials, we have taken, or are taking, the following steps:
• Transitioned to a “work from home” protocol;
• Implemented a comprehensive plan to continue project fieldwork while assuring the health and safety of our employees and the community;
• Implemented heightened personal hygiene and workplace sanitization;
• Cancelled or postponed in-person meetings and moved them to virtual environment;
• Cancelled nonessential domestic air travel and postponed all international air travel; and
• Providing employees with regular updates to make sure each employee has the latest information on the COVID-19 virus.
Our project teams have been working and providing services across the country for a long time. Working remotely is in our DNA, this is not new territory for us. Our operational framework has been designed to maintain location flexibility; the way we work on projects will not change. Our core functions remain in place to support your project needs as we navigate these unprecedented times.
Gray & Pape is unwavering in our focus and dedication to our core values of health, safety, and service during these trying times. We hope you and your loved ones remain healthy and safe.
W. Kevin Pape
President
Gray & Pape Heritage Management
DEEPLY ROOTED HERITAGE PODCAST
THIS IS A PODCAST ABOUT PRESERVING MEMORY THROUGH STORYTELLING. EACH EPISODE INVITES YOU TO LEARN ABOUT THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF PEOPLE, PLACE, LANDSCAPES, AND OBJECTS.
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About Deeply Rooted Heritage
In our society, memory and cultural heritage are commonly shared through oral histories and storytelling. As Americans, we are deeply rooted with traditions, customs, and stories that capture our individual ethnic identity. When used to preserve cultural resources and heritage, oral histories and newspapers enhance contextual histories by offering remnants of the past that would otherwise be lost. For many, American history and cultural heritage are separate ideals instead of shared resources. The Deeply Rooted Heritage podcast aims to build on Gray & Pape’s cultural heritage focus by inspiring an appreciation of cultural heritage and intangible culture by presenting untold histories and discussing relevant matters in the fields of historic preservation, architecture, urban planning, public policy, social history, environmental conservation, museum studies, and archaeology.
As a cultural heritage and public history project, Deeply Rooted Heritage seeks to honor the challenges of underrepresented groups in America, whether it be Native American, African American, Jewish American, Chinese American, Muslim American, Hispanic, LGBT, etc., and elucidate how shared heritage amalgamates us as Americans, yet express ethnic diversity. The customs, traditions, and stories that make us unique need to be captured, studied, and better understood by us all. Deeply Rooted seeks to achieve this goal by cultivating a general appreciation for American cultural history through shared heritage.
Season 01 Episode 01: Urban Renewal in Cincinnati’s Lower West End
Episode Description
Prior to the mid-twentieth century, Cincinnati’s West End neighborhood was characterized as a dense urban area full of social and economic activity comprised of multiple thousands of buildings that housed almost 5% of the city’s entire population. Urban renewal impacted the existing landscape of the lower West End through two separate projects. During the late 1930s, new public housing buildings were constructed byway of renewal. On an even larger scale, during the 1960s, the city sought to create a new industrial area known as Queensgate I or the Kenyon Barr Urban Redevelopment project, which resulted in the comprehensive demolition of thousands of dwelling units, systematically displacing over 25,000 residents. It may not surprise you to find out that the large majority of families forced to relocate out of the West End were African American. In fact, prior to the 1960s renewal project, the neighborhood housed 75% of the city’s black population.
In this first Deeply Rooted Heritage episode, we dig deep into the history of the West End to better understand the heritage of a once thriving community by speaking with local urban historians Anne Delano Steinert and Dr. Eric Jackson. Towards the end of the episode, Anne describes, then deconstructs, the story behind the photographs from her Finding Kenyon Barr exhibit.
Follow along visually by checking out the Urban Renewal Episode Storymap (created using ArcGIS)!
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Gray & Pape is seeking a new Practice Leader for our Marine Services Division!
We are currently searching for a new Practice Leader for our Marine Services Division based in our Providence, Rhode Island, office. The following link has all the details. Spread the word to all your favorite Maritime Archaeologists!
https://www.graypape.com/job/practice-leader-maritime-services-providence-rhode-island-2/
Disaster Management Services
- Contact: Jim Hughey
- jhughey@graypape.com
- 713.541.0473
Over the past 25 years, Disaster Management and Recovery (DM/DR) program administration has emerged as a significant service feature for consulting firms. Given the continued likelihood of extreme weather and natural disaster events across the United States, Disaster Management services stand out as an increasingly critical need moving forward. Gray & Pape is uniquely qualified to offer cultural resource management services bundled with the capacity to provide DM/DR operation services to our clients.
Our record of successful consultation with federal, state, and local entities has provided us with a wide network of collaborative partnerships across the country. Gray & Pape has the capability to provide Disaster Management services, including survey and structure assessment for Section 106/110 compliance, NEPA/NHPA and Environmental Record review, along with state and local program administration and state-level coordination with SHPOs and Tribal SHPOs.
Our Services Include:
- CDBG-DR Program administration
- FEMA Hazard and Flood Mitigation Programs (404 and 406)
- Tier I and II Environmental Record Reviews
- Structural damage assessments
- NEPA and NHPA compliance
- Section 106/110 compliance
- Environmental Impact Assessments and Statements
- Tribal Consultation
- Community Resilience and Disaster Management Planning
We Have Worked With:
- Federal Emergency Management Administration
- Housing and Urban Development and Federal
- Housing Administration
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- National Park Service
- State Historic Preservation Office across the county
- Texas Department of Transportation and Texas General Land Office
- South Carolina and New York Statewide Disaster Recovery Offices