Our core purpose is leading projects and making investments that open up access to economic opportunities, reduce the racial wealth gap, and encourage innovation and growth. One area where we focus is the real estate continuum, from pop-ups, to sustaining and growing existing businesses, to models for asset ownership.

Our Tenant Improvement Program addresses the middle part of the continuum by reducing costs for small businesses to upgrade their commercial spaces. These investments help businesses stabilize and grow by purchasing essential equipment, completing electrical upgrades, or building out a new storefront.

The Panama Hotel in Japantown, a piece of Seattle history, illustrates the impact these investments can have.

Open and operating since 1910, the building tells the story of

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