Building Health, Inc. is addressing the built environment in Pittsburg, Kansas by working with USD 250 High School students in the school's Launch program to remove blight and create a public greenspace at 2nd and Walnut Streets in downtown Pittsburg. The students were presented with an opportunity to imagine what could be done with a property that has contained a depilated warehouse for many years, and established a vision for a community gathering space that will extend an existing linear park in the heart of the community. Students have presented the project to various service groups, advisory boards, businesses, and philanthropists, and raised enough funding to demolish the building and stabilize the parcel. They are now returning the parcel to the City of Pittsburg to establish a public dog park on the parcel, known as The
Coal Yard.