Home : Our Work : Greening Homewood Clusters Greening Homewood Clusters Share this project Homewood Phipps Operation Better Block “> Operation Better Block (OBB) is working on a Neighborhood Partnership Program (NPP) through the Department of Community and Economic Development, and Grounded Strategies is partnering with OBB on the short-term implementation of greenspaces throughout Homewood. The Homewood Cluster Plan calls for the transformation of vacant lots in key locations to become greenscaped gateways to the community. Grounded will work to identify potential locations for parklets from the Plan and implement a series of vacant lot projects on those locations each year. As part of this process, Grounded Strategies will host Junior Green Corps training sessions that will focus on the process of vacant land reclamation through the lens of civic stewardship activities, advancing community pride and building self-determination skills for youth. Training will culminate with JGC putting their newly acquired skills into practice while transforming the identified vacant lots into active greenspaces.