Sixth Annual HRP Scholars Program Awards
Continue HRP Group's Commitment to Supporting Chicago's Future
Leaders
CHICAGO, Aug. 14,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HRP Group (HRP) today announced
the recipients of the sixth annual HRP Scholars scholarship program
in Chicago. Since its inception in
2019, the HRP Scholars program has provided scholarships to
students in Southwest Chicago,
supporting their studies at community colleges, four-year colleges
and universities, or trade schools. To date, HRP has awarded over
$105,000 in scholarships to 13 local
students. This year's awardees will each receive $10,000 to support their higher education
goals.
"At HRP, we are committed to giving back to the communities we
work in and the HRP Scholars program plays a vital role in that
mission," said HRP Chief Executive Officer Roberto Perez. "We measure our success not
just by the completion of a project, but by the positive impact it
has on the local community. It's incredibly important to us that
the HRP Scholars are equipped to achieve their goals and, in turn,
contribute to the success of future generations."
The 2024 HRP Scholars are Reina
Serrano-Rivera, who will attend the University of Illinois Chicago to study finance,
Jose Garcia, who will attend
the Illinois Institute of Technology to
study chemical engineering, and Eric
Nieto Gonzalez, a rising senior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying
electrical engineering, who plans to continue his studies for a
master's degree.
"I believe that with hard work, you can go far, regardless of
where you start," said Reina
Serrano, this year's scholarship recipient. "I've
remained committed to my education because I know it's the best way
to create change. This scholarship not only allows me to keep
pursuing my dreams but also allows me to return and help others in
my community find a better future."
"Receiving the scholarship opened my world. It allowed me to
make new connections and learn of others' experiences in
college…[I]t made me realize that I could complete my education,
and now I'm attending a four-year university and that was all
possible with the help of HRP," said Sebastian Chaidez, a 2021 HRP Scholar
studying industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago.
HRP's holistic approach to redevelopment prioritizes
environmental, community, and economic sustainability. This mission
inspires the firm to maintain transparency and engagement with the
communities in which they work. When HRP purchased the former
Crawford Station power plant in 2017, which had been a source of
pollution and a barrier to connectivity in the Little Village
Industrial Corridor, the company committed to transforming the
70-acre site into a new standard for sustainable redevelopment. Now
complete, Exchange 55 is Chicago's largest
LEED-certified industrial facility which sustains over 2,000 jobs
with higher than average wages.
Also active in Philadelphia,
PA, where HRP is transforming a 1,300-acre former oil
refinery into a sustainable logistics and innovation hub at The
Bellwether District, the HRP Scholars Program has provided more
than $230 thousand in scholarship
funds to date.
About HRP Group (HRP):
HRP (www.hrpgroup.com)
is a vertically integrated, multi-strategy real estate investment
company specializing in the transformation of obsolete industrial
sites into modern logistics infrastructure, mixed-use destinations,
and pioneering innovation hubs. The firm takes a holistic approach
to value creation that prioritizes community, environmental, and
economic sustainability.
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