Category: Logistics & Facilitation.
Winter/Spring 2018 Newsletter: May All-Member Meeting
Posted by in Art & Media, Case Studies & Inspiration, Logistics & Facilitation, Member Outreach, Media & Art, Outreach to Institutional Investors, Project Vetting, Public Building Inventory, REIC-U, Steering Committee, Uncategorized, Working Groups , on May 17, 2018

IMPORTANT! ALL-MEMBER MEETING MAY 29TH!

WHEN: Tuesday, May 29, 6:30pm-8:30pm

WHERE: Central Brooklyn Public Library

10 Grand Army Plaza, Info Commons

B41, 2, 3, B, Q

Please RSVP here. New members welcome.

WE WANT TO KNOW:

WHY You desire…

  • to buy the building your space is in & need more $$$
  • to sell a commercial space you own, but want to make sure it will continue to be affordable/serve neighbors
  • to contribute to an innovative project to prevent the displacement of small businesses, community spaces, cultural centers, coops, artists, and more across NYC
  • to be qualified invest your savings
April 2017 Committee Reports
Posted by in Art & Media, Case Studies & Inspiration, Logistics & Facilitation, Member Outreach, Media & Art, Outreach to Institutional Investors, Project Vetting, Public Building Inventory, REIC-U, Steering Committee, Uncategorized, Working Groups , on April 20, 2017

All-Member Quarterly Meeting- MAY 7th!

We invite all members of the REIC, as well as anyone interested in joining our cooperative, to our Spring 2017 quarterly All-Member Meeting! Join us to hear updates from our Founding Board, view the roadmap for us moving forward that was developed at our strategic planning meeting in March, hear report-backs from committees, and get more involved by joining a new working group. Also on the agenda – an interactive session where REIC members new and old can learn and ask questions about our business model and structure.

Come 10 minutes early or stay 10

February 2017 Committee Reports
Posted by in Art & Media, Case Studies & Inspiration, Logistics & Facilitation, Member Outreach, Media & Art, Project Vetting, Public Building Inventory, REIC-U, Steering Committee, Uncategorized, Working Groups , on February 17, 2017

Join us for the NYC REIC Organizational Planning Meeting
Mayday Community Space
176 St. Nicholas Street
Bushwick,Brooklyn
Sunday, March 5th
12:00-4:00pm

We are at a point in the NYC REIC’s trajectory where we are actively considering investment projects, thinking about fundraising, and generally deciding what the NYC REIC is going to look like in the near future.

To make sure the NYC REIC develops intentionally and with member input, the Founding Board is hosting a facilitated organizational planning session. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here by February 27, 2017.

As this will be a sequential, facilitated meeting,

December 2016 Committee Reports
Posted by in Art & Media, Case Studies & Inspiration, Logistics & Facilitation, Member Outreach, Media & Art, Project Vetting, Public Building Inventory, REIC-U, Steering Committee, Working Groups , on December 13, 2016

REIC U Update

Thursday, Dec. 15! REIC U Film screening/discussion and potluck dinner at Union Docs!

7-11pm at UnionDocs

322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11211

We will be screening Kelly Anderson’s 2012 documentary, “My Brooklyn,” the story of her journey to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. It raises questions of how we can heal the deep racial wounds embedded in our urban development patterns, and how we can become active in fixing a broken city planning process. We will hold breakout discussions after the film to discuss its themes and their applications

October 2016 Committee Reports
Posted by in Art & Media, Case Studies & Inspiration, Logistics & Facilitation, Member Outreach, Media & Art, Project Vetting, Public Building Inventory, Working Groups , on October 8, 2016

Steering Committee Update

Getting Our Legal Ducks in a Row

It’s possible to create the alternatives we need when we play with the mechanisms that determine real estate. Your Steering Committee has been working with lawyers from Lincoln Square Legal Services’ (LSLS) Community Economic Development Clinic of Fordham Law School, led by founding member Paula Z. Segal, and at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, to register with the NYS Attorney General to fundraise for collective real estate investment through the LLC we will incorporate. The package we need to submit to the NYS AG’s office describing our model, and

July 2016 Committee Reports
Posted by in Art & Media, Case Studies & Inspiration, Logistics & Facilitation, Member Outreach, Media & Art, Public Building Inventory, Uncategorized, Working Groups , on July 12, 2016

Steering Committee Update

Together with our other workgroups and committees, your Steering Committee is continuing to build capacity for the NYC REIC. At our June 12 open meeting, we presented our proposal for the legal entity that the NYC REIC should form, based on research of the Fordham Law School Clinic and input from the Governance Committee. You can see the slides from the legal team’s presentation here.

Your Steering Committee has decided to implement one of the legal structures outlined by the Fordham’s group: we will form a Member-Controlled Not for Profit Corporation with special purpose entity Limited

We’re Featured At Upworthy!
Posted by in Logistics & Facilitation , on August 13, 2015

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Our mission to merge community advocacy and real estate investment to preserve permanent affordability is featured today over at Upworthy.

“Historically, New York has served as one of the greatest hotbeds for creativity in the country. It’s where people like legendary musicians David Byrne and Patti Smith became, well, legends. But since that heyday, Byrne and Smith have gone public about how the city’s focus on catering to the wealthy and ever-rising rents — on studio spaces, living spaces, and community space — are closing the door on creativity and culture in New York…

Enter: The NYC Real Estate