Urbane Development, LLC Information

Urbane Development (Urbane) is a community development venture and certified MBE based in New York City. Founded in 2008, Urbane cultivates innovative solutions to build dynamic neighborhoods and positively impact underserved communities. We envision neighborhoods that are defined by their strengths and experienced as places of opportunity and innovation. Urbane leverages the advantages of for-profit enterprise for community benefit by focusing on strategies that generate wealth and resource capacity for communities. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and anchor institutions in underserved communities take their businesses and organizations to the next level. This is our strategy for creating local wealth and a way to begin to address the social inequity caused by a failure in the marketplace to provide quality, affordable goods and services in dynamic, diverse, but underserved communities. The Urbane team utilizes decades of community development expertise to plan, design, implement and evaluate strategies to elevate the communities in which we work. Our core competencies include community engagement, business development, market intelligence and insights, program design and development, organizational capacity building, and place-based investment and development. All our work is framed by a participatory action research (PAR) approach, allowing us to foment the bedrock of transformative communities. Since 2008, Urbane has worked in more than 35 urban and rural communities to develop solutions to entrenched challenges. The team has worked with over 1,000 small businesses, representing over 1.1 million square feet of commercial and community facility space. Urbane has helped raise over $55 million to help small business, commercial projects, and community development initiatives in low-income areas with the goal of promoting internal wealth generation. Urbane consults on projects throughout North America and co-develops mixed-use real estate in the NYC area.