We believe a community project (even a really great one!) isn't worth doing unless it speaks to what makes a place special.

A community isn't just buildings and streets and art and parks. Those things are important, but at the end of the day, place is about the people who live there and work there and whose needs and hopes and fears overlap to make a community what it really is.

That's why we start our work by developing an understanding of what makes a community tick. By reading about neighborhood history, conducting resident and worker surveys and meeting with everyday heroes, we can help move a creative concept from being additive to to being transformative.