The adaptive reuse of the former Swift Factory returned the vacant manufacturing space into a state-of-the-art facility that provides high-quality jobs for residents of the surrounding community, specifically those considered low-income. The space also includes a commercial food manufacturing kitchen, a food business incubator, community space and non-profit office space.

This catalytic, mixed-use project features 92 mixed-income apartments, office space for local businesses, and over 39,000 square feet of storefront and commercial space, much of which was pre-leased prior to closing. The buildings are connected and have access to an adjacent parking structure owned by the city. Among the new tenants of the Bowery project is a local fresh food grocer and café that occupies 8,400 square feet of space.

The Akron Civic Theater, known as the “Jewel on Main Street” also played a significant role in the redevelopment. They leased 7,127 square feet of space from the development for a new box office, offices, space for small community events, and additional theatre space for small-scale performances.

In an effort to continue the activation of Akron’s Main Street, the City of Akron also used a portion of the development to create an indoor promenade connecting Main Street to the Lock 4 Park on the canal level behind the Bowery. The promenade features pop up retail spaces and community events and encourages pedestrians to take advantage of the scenic canal, which has also seen recent revitalization.

The project transformed the former Shenandoah Hotel into a vibrant mixed-use space in the heart of the Martinsburg Main Street. This was the fourth project in NTCIC’s Irvin Henderson Main Street Revitalization Fund.

The historic building was revitalized into 38 residential units and 16,000 square feet of commercial space. Ten thousand square feet on the ground floor house multiple tenants, with a focus on small businesses graduating from a nearby incubator, as well as restaurant space. The basement includes 6,000 square feet of additional specialized commercial space.

NTCIC’s investment goal with the Shenandoah project was to promote a small deal in a tertiary market by creating community-serving commercial space and setting aside affordable residential units to benefit the local community. The project sponsors worked directly with Martinsburg’s local Main Street Association to find commercial tenants for the space.

POST Houston converted the 525,000 square foot former headquarters of the Houston Post Office into a mixed-use cultural and entertainment epicenter for the downtown area.  Designed by OMA, the world-renowned architecture firm founded by Rem Koolhaas, the space includes Houston’s largest food hall, co-working and tech incubator space, a music and entertainment venue, designer retail, office, and one of the world’s largest rooftop parks and farms.

The project worked with local nonprofits to utilize the food hall to provide employment opportunities within the foodservice industry to residents of surrounding underinvested communities. The community center helps connect interested individuals with restaurant tenants, as well as provide on-site job training and career planning opportunities. The partnership focuses on low-income residents of Houston’s Near Northside neighborhood, an underserved and distressed area adjacent to POST Houston.

The rooftop farm is operated by a local for-profit provider of sustainable and organic farm solutions in Houston and yields roughly 50,000 pounds of organic produce per year. The farm offers agricultural education, year-round collaboration with the food hall chefs, resulting in a true farm to fork experience for guests. The rooftop space also provides a unique event location in downtown Houston that hosts weddings, farm dinners, sunset yoga classes, and more.

Crescent Commons was a 2-year, multi-phase Historic Tax Credit (HTC) investment and the 5th project supported through the Irvin Henderson Main Street Revitalization Fund. This adaptive reuse initiative restored the former factory building into ground-level nonprofit and commercial space, as well as loft apartments on the upper floors. The building is anchored by Family Counseling Services (FCS), a private nonprofit organization founded in 1971 that provides professional counseling and prevention services to Cortland County, including mental health and chemical dependency counseling programs for youth, adults, and families. Additional tenants include the Franciscan Health Support Group and several locally owned businesses.

The residential aspect, which was completed in 2017 utilizing state and federal HTCs supported by NTCIC, includes 47 apartments, three units of which are restricted to households earning 80% of AMI. They feature loft designs with high ceilings, large windows, and open floor plans to keep with the historic nature of the building.

The project has supported 125 permanent career-track jobs, with a majority paying a living wage for the area and providing benefits such as paid leave and health insurance.

The Rail & Commerce building saw the conversion of a former mail sorting and storage facility into commercial and office uses. The original first floor’s high ceiling height allowed the floor to be divided and resulted in the creation of a new mezzanine. This lower floor is home to Commerce Village, a co-working space that fosters a creative environment for startup companies and entrepreneurs. The space is fully leased and supporting 25 incubator tenants that have access to 13 individual office suites, 55 desks, and collaborative workspaces as well as common areas, conference rooms, a communal kitchen, a café, and break rooms. The new second floor contains office space occupied by the project’s developer.

The Model Group, one of the most experienced developers in Cincinnati, led the transformation efforts of these historic scattered buildings into connective services that help nurture new businesses, grow the housing stock, and further revitalize the nearby Findlay Market. These transformations become the catalysts for or the continued momentum of broader neighborhood revitalization strategies.

The Model Group began acquiring the scattered historic properties over a two year period starting in 2014 with a vision of a vibrant, mixed-use, and mixed-income Market District anchored by Findlay Market, Ohio’s oldest continually operated public market.

Today, the Jobs Café project has created a mixture of  nearly 70 mixed-income residential units, as well as an expansion on the greater Jobs Café at Findlay Market project, a social enterprise restaurant concept that provides job training and placement for restaurant industry positions.

Several of the restored storefronts are leased back to graduates of the existing Findlay Kitchen incubator program at below-market rates, so small businesses can grow to scale and maintain their own street-facing storefronts.

Vacant for over 20 years, this building has now been saved and repurposed with a new community-serving purpose. Thanks to the vision of nonprofit Crosstown Arts, in partnership with Kemmons Wilson Companies and a group of community stakeholders and founding tenants, the new Crosstown Concourse has emerged as a mixed-use, “vertical urban village” with roots in arts, education and healthcare.  

Reopened on August 18, 2017 (on the building’s 90th birthday), Crosstown Concourse now contains 269 residential mixed-income housing and commercial, retail, education and healthcare space. Tenants include a charter high school for arts and sciences, a teacher residency/graduate urban education program, a wellness and fitness center, primary and urgent healthcare clinics, contemporary art exhibition space, shared art-making facilities, a comprehensive cancer treatment center, and a retail mix that includes a fresh market, pharmacy and restaurants.  

Crosstown Concourse is LEED Platinum certified, the highest level of green building design, and is the largest LEED Platinum historic adaptive reuse project in the world.

The historic Wilkins Rogers complex will be redeveloped into a mixed-use project called Ellicott Mill consisting of apartments, a restaurant overlooking the Patapsco River, retail space, a swimming pool, modern amenities and a parking garage. The project will maintain its historic character with rehab to the main mill building, as well as other contributing buildings and a railroad trestle. Ellicott Mill is within walking distance to downtown Ellicott City and is conveniently located between Baltimore and DC.  

The George W. Adair Elementary School was transformed into Academy Lofts of Adair Park, a space where creative enthusiasts, artists, and entrepreneurs live, work, and interact with each other and their local communities.