Detroit LISC

Detroit

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LISC is committed to building communities that offer the positive environments needed to ensure that all residents of any income level are provided the opportunities and tools to build assets, to participate in the benefits of their communities, and to become part of the mainstream economy.

We are calling these places Sustainable Communities. They are, in effect, the embodiment of both “community” and “development” — places where human opportunity and social and economic vitality combine with a continuous process of growth, adaptation, and improvement. We envision Sustainable Communities as places that people want to be in, contribute to, thrive in, and be proud of. Sustainable Communities are good places to live, do business, work, worship, and raise families.

In Detroit and across the country, LISC is expanding its traditional focus and developing partnerships with a wide-range of nonprofit and for-profit organizations that support the larger issue of comprehensive community health and sustainability. LISC is focusing its investments on five core program objectives that, taken together, can lead to this larger goal.

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The role of LISC in Detroit is that of a leader in the development and implementation of key programs and projects that advance strategic goals and of a deal-maker, creating and investing in priority physical development projects. We also serve as a convener, and strategic program planner, aligning players and resources around more comprehensive strategies and joint implementation plans. Finally, Detroit LISC serves a system-building role – working with our local and state municipal partners, LISC provides strategies for bringing ideas, players and resources together.

When there is a need, Detroit LISC is there bringing non-traditional partners together, leveraging resources, and building new relationships to drive comprehensive, sustainable change in Detroit’s neighborhoods. Detroit LISC is the catalyst that puts together the right players with the right resources to create innovative deals that meet the community’s needs.

Since 1990, Detroit LISC has invested $135 million which leveraged an additional $888 million. These investments have yielded 3,573 residential units and 618,062 square feet of commercial space (which are either completed, under construction or in predevelopment). These outcomes demonstrate that financing local revitalization efforts have had a significant impact on Detroit neighborhoods, with LISC involvement and financial products acting as the catalyst in many instances.

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