Design Team
We are grateful to our dedicated architects, landscape architects and urban designer, and their student design interns whose visionary contributions are helping reshape the narrative of the Blackstone Avenue corridor.
Paul Halajian, Paul Halajian Architects
- 389 Clovis Ave Ste. 100, Clovis, CA 93612
- admin@halajianarch.com
- (559) 297-7900
Arthur Dyson, Arthur Dyson Architects
- 1295 N. Wishon Ave, Fresno, CA 93728
- adyson@dysonjanzen.com
- (559) 486-3582
Antonio (Tony) Avila, Darden Architects
- 6790 N West Ave, Fresno, CA 93711
- info@dardenarchitects.com
- (559) 448-8051
Sheila Hakimipour, Urban Diversity Design
Terry Broussard, Broussard & Associates Landscape Architect
- 389 Clovis Ave #200, Clovis, CA 93612
- info@broussardassoc.com
- (559) 325-7284
Rich Vaillancour (retired),
Robert Boro Landscape Architect
- 985 N Van Ness Ave, Fresno, CA 93721
- robertboro@comcast.net
- (559) 266-4367
Funders
Regenerate California Innovation (RCI) is the current fiscal sponsor for the Better Blackstone Community Development Corporation (BBCDC). The former fiscal sponsor for BBCDC is Fresno Metro Ministry.
Staff Team
Keith Bergthold
Keith Bergthold is the founder and CEO of both the Better Blackstone CDC and Regenerate California Innovation (RCI), the former Executive Director of Fresno Metro Ministry from 2014 through 2022, and former Asst. Planning Director for the City of Fresno from 2006 to 2014. Keith conceptualized and provided overall management for the BBDC project, recruited and continues to work with our wonderful community serving local architects and urban designers, and wrote and managed the grants that made the BBDC project feasible.
Christian Gonzalez
Christian Gonzalez is our amazing community engagement and community planning and development professional. She served as the extremely capable and essential BBDC project manager while with Fresno Metro Ministry and the Better Blackstone CDC through 2021. She is now a Community Engagement Specialist with Every Neighborhood Partnership and in her spare time also serves on the Board of Directors of Regenerate California Innovation (RCI).
Board of Directors
Better Blackstone Community Development Corporation
Current Board Members
Christina Alejo, President
Jose Antonio Ramirez, Vice President
Dr. Daniel Griffin, Treasurer
Dr. Matthew Jendian, Secretary
Andrew Feil
D’Aungillique Jackson
Past Board Members
Dr. Francine Oputa
Christopher L. Moran
Artie Padilla