common craft is a real estate development and consulting firm that exists to:
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We use a systems-based approach to provide a rich and nuanced conception of project value. Forgotten spaces, emergent and underserved demographics, hidden opportunities for reuse or reinvigoration - we find these moments and employ a creative and dogged development process to create, capture and redistribute the value that follows.
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Good people drive good development. Our projects aim to catalyze, empower and sustain communities by putting people first, utilizing community-centered design principles, and respecting the histories of the places and people we engage with.
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Real-estate is our chosen lever for change-making: better design, more sustainable building methodologies, and better outcomes for our tenants, residents, and the communities in which we operate. It is our mandate to create places that do better by all of these metrics.
Our mission is to leverage changes in the built environment to enact progressive environmental and social changes. We do this by using systems thinking to understand where intrinsic, societal value is mismatched with extrinsic, economic value.
How can we breathe new life into discarded buildings? What demographics are underserved by the existing building stock? How can healthier, more sustainable buildings add value to our communities and to the natural world?
By providing creative answers to these questions, we believe that we can bridge the gap between intrinsic and extrinsic values: Creating projects of true value and being compensated accordingly.
