Community 2.0

 

Imagine a neighborhood that produces no waste and no pollution, but only clean, renewable energy. PLACE is pleased to introduce our latest model for communities, called E-Generation™. E-Generation is a community that can generate more energy than it uses: a mixed-use, mixed-income development designed to capture energy from the sun, the wind and the Earth, and capable of converting all its own waste into clean, green energy. The result is a community capable of healing the environment and the people within it. Using an ethically-focused, community-driven process, PLACE empowers people to participate in the creation of their own neighborhood, guide the vision, and benefit from the result. Authentic public participation improves developments and increases civic “ownership” of projects, which leads, in turn, to better performance.

 

PLACE infuses every E-Generation project with art and creativity. The arts dismantle the barriers between people, and challenge underlying assumptions in society. Artists and artisans operate as small businesses that provide visitors with unique experiences that are hard to find in today’s ubiquitous chain store environment. The arts make a community worth visiting, and worth living in. Affordability — true affordability — is built into the very structure of every PLACE community. Direct financial benefits for our community members lie not just in the form of lower rents and lower prices, but in lower utility costs resulting from alternative energy, lower transportation costs resulting from shared electric cars and transit-oriented development, and lower food costs from micro-agriculture.

 

In addition to all these benefits, E-Generation communities generate revenue to pay cities back for their investment.

Generate energy. Generate empowerment. Generate creativity. Generate revenue for cities. E-Generation.