Delaware Street Commons in Lawrence, KS, receives local architectural award

Delaware Street Commons (DSC), the first cohousing community in Kansas, has received the River City Architectural Enhancement Award from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. The community will receive the honor at a luncheon on September 18, 2007. Delaware Street Commons, a resident-developed project, recently finished construction on 21 new homes and a 2,260 sq. ft. common house.

Members of DSC worked with Kirk Gastinger, principal architect at Gastinger Walker Harden Architects based in Kansas City. Kirk has been instrumental in the sustainable design movement for 15 years, leading the formation of the AIA’s National Committee on the Environment in 1989.

This active community regularly hosts house concerts, yoga classes, potlucks and retreats. DSC is within walking and biking distance of vibrant downtown Lawrence and the University of Kansas.