Inspired by the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood's Greatriarch Project in Indianapolis, the Lincoln Neighborhood Greatriarch Project includes two students from Purdue University's John Martinson Honors College collaborating with the city of Lafayette, IN to select and interview long-time residents of the Lincoln neighborhood. Short biographies of each Greatriarch will be written to share their stories. The city requested the collection of oral histories to preserve the past of the Lincoln neighborhood, and the constructed, 60-minute interviews will provide the city with qualitative data as part of its redevelopment plan. Inspired by Ruut Veenhoven’s text, “The Four Qualities of Life,” we aim to incorporate the following identified qualities into this neighborhood: livability, life-ability, utility of life, and appreciation of life. Our goal is to better understand what once made residents happy to live in the Lincoln neighborhood to help the city improve the “livability of the environment” as well as explore residents’ “appreciation of life” (their perceived quality of their past and current lives in Lafayette). Veenhoven suggests that variety and experiences can enrich someone’s appreciation, so we are beginning our artistic component of the Greatriarch Project; we have commissioned a local artist to collaborate with community members in the creation of murals of the Greatriarchs. This spring, we will work with her to host workshops for resident involvement in the design and painting process. We hope that engagement opportunities will improve residents’ perceived happiness within their communities. The murals will also beautify the neighborhood, improving its reputation and potentially attracting permanent residents–another aspect of the city’s redevelopment plan. Our research question is: Through participatory research, can we identify what motivated certain residents to move to and stay in the Lincoln neighborhood, and can we apply this knowledge to improve quality of life and increase resident permanency?