Joe Ziolkowski
Joe Ziolkowski redeveloped the former Longworth/Mack Building through a public-private partnership with the City of Chelsea and MEDC, redeveloped the former Chelsea Police Station, and developed vacation homes in Costa Rica for rental and eventual sale. Joe has worked in construction and development in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is skilled at repurposing and reimagining complex, useless, or forgotten spaces, buildings, and properties. Joe has an MA in Secondary Education and an MFA in Creative Writing. He backed into construction twenty years ago in the Bay Area and found he enjoyed it and construction/contracting merged into redevelopment.
Mostly I've learned by doing, which translates to making lots of mistakes and then learning from them. Joe loves the community nature of the project. So many community members and organizations support the project, ensuring that the park will be a community park in every sense. It offers the community a unifying endeavor that provides a positive avenue for citizen involvement and civic engagement.
I felt that I could contribute to solving the problem of redeveloping the Federal Screw Works site and that a community park was the ideal solution. But this park project is so enormous and complex that it requires a community effort. It is humbling and inspiring to be surrounded by so much experience, brainpower, and passion for the endeavor.
Joe is a founding member and serves on the Design Committee.
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