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Project Overview

Project Location
  • 10-acre site at the corner of Market Street & Euclid Avenue
  • Easily accessible to Highways 805, 94 & 15
  • 5 minutes from downtown
  • Next to Trolley & Bus Transfer Station
  • State Enterprise Zone, Federal Enterprise Community
Financial Overview
  • Total project cost $23.5 million
  • Total Jacobs Center investment to-date $28 million
  • Land doubled in appraised value in the first two years
Project Innovations
  • Development of an innovative network of community teams coming together to build a community vision
  • Broad community involvement in design and development of a commercial project
  • Creation of innovative program-related investment tools for social-purpose investors
  • Design of an owner-builder, mentor-protege construction program which is comprehensive in scope and is providing a vehicle for more than half the project to be built by the neighborhood
Economic Impact
  • More than 1,700 new jobs in the neighborhood
  • 360 construction jobs with training for emerging contractors, supported by contractor working lines of credit
  • Nine working teams, involving thousands of residents and businesses, build skills in every aspect of project
  • Community ownership strategy; hundreds of committed community residents investing their own capital in the project, building wealth by rebuilding their neighborhood
Social and Cultural Impact
  • Chollas Creek restored (part of City's plan), natural vegetation, walking paths
  • 500-seat outdoor amphitheater
  • Unique architectural character created by multicultural team
  • Multi-cultural values expressed in MCP through community art estimated at $ 1.4 million
  • Safe place for intergenerational and multi-ethnic interactions

Jacobs Center Market Creek Plaza