Quality neighborhood housing and home ownership
Providing new owner-occupied home construction, home renovations, and blight removal. Click here to learn about our home renovations and see if you qualify for home improvement grants.
Providing new owner-occupied home construction, home renovations, and blight removal. Click here to learn about our home renovations and see if you qualify for home improvement grants.
Increasing community desirability and livability through new signage, gateway gardens, streetscaping, care for parks, and other community building events.
Partnering with the East Bayfront Neighborhood Watch group, law enforcement, and provide summer employment opportunities.
Working with grant and financing organizations to further meaningful financial partnerships, and invest in Erie’s future.
Serving as the point of contact on neighborhood issues with local government, agencies, and departments to ensure residents are well heard.
Understanding the concerns of residents, businesses, politicians, landlords, developers and others to spur a collective conversation.
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Upcoming activities, projects, and more.
Since its inception in the late 1970s, the Bayfront East Side Taskforce (B.E.S.T.) was the first nonprofit in Erie focused on the revitalization of a single neighborhood. Today, B.E.S.T. continues that mission of revitalization, bettering our neighborhood every day.
From facades to gardens, B.E.S.T. champions work that increases neighborhood value and drives community collectiveness through our public spaces.
Check out the dedicated staff, board members and volunteers who make our organization run!