Green Grocer Project
In a city working hard to reinvent itself, providing the most basic of needs – food – can become a larger experiment on how to create attractive, vibrant communities. See how Urbane Development helped Detroit engage the city’s supermarkets to strengthen their ability to provide healthy and affordable food to Detroit residents while creating a template for more efficient service delivery for a key city agency…
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Bodega Bootcamp™
Whether the goal is to combat obesity, create safer communities, or stimulate the local small business sector, the ubiquitous corner grocery market plays a key role in the growth and stability of communities across the country. Urbane’s Bodega Bootcamp™ offers communities, advocates, and funders a chance to “be a grocer for a day” and experience the power of the Grocer as Change Agent model…
Livonia Gallery
68,000 Square Feet of Vacant Land + BFC Partners, one of the most prolific housing developers in NYC + Urbane Development = a re-development concept that’s equal parts dynamic retail, avant-garde design, and a true partnership with community businesses, institutions, and residents that’s 100% East New York…
Lantern Ventures
Second chances are all about the baby steps. For the staff of Little Things Candy Store and Market, respectively, success is measured not simply by profit, but through finding serenity and purpose in the little things. Find out how The Lantern Organization, a supportive services housing developer and Urbane Development reinvent the concept of Retail Therapy…
Small Grocer Project
The concept of economic gardening is apropos to Cory Booker, a Mayor who cares as much about his city’s physical health as he does its economic. Can improving small corner stores be an economic development strategy? Newark’s economic development arm, Brick City Development Corporation, enlisted Urbane Development to help answer that question through the marriage of small business improvement and fresh food access…