The project uses a full-circle philosophy to invest in the community.
Stability & Social Impact
Focuses on community oriented development that empowers the community from within. By the community, For the community - proves that innovative ideas live within the community and social impact does not need to be imported. Rather than simply building a building, we designed a building to fit and benefit the needs of the tenants and the community from beginning to end.
Workforce & Business Development
Promotes an internal economic growth system through training of skilled workers, entrepreneurial visioning, and support of businesses through a mixed use sustainable development ecosystem. During construction, we utilize neighborhood workers and help them gain job skills. By soliciting community business, both on-going and start-up, as tenants, we will boost their ability to increase employment. These two employment paradigms positively impact the neighborhood while, at the same time, businesses invest money back into the community.
Community Investment
By fostering innovative ideas of community members, who see the embedded potential of the community. The STAY HERE community development approach seeks to embrace the community members and not displace them. This on-going investment creates new demand and cultivates new businesses which, in turn, hire more people, create additional demand and add new investment, creating a positive, full-circle of jobs and investment within the community.
Fundamentally with this approach, we believe that development that promotes staying in the community, investing in the community, building businesses in the community and advocates for community value added growth.