Program Areas:

Environment
Economics
Justice
Education
Public Partnership
War & the Environment

Projects:

San Francisco Bay Area:

San Francisco
 • Hunters Point Shipyard
 • Yosemite Slough
 • Treasure Island
 • Presidio
Alameda
 • Alameda Naval Air Station
 • FISC Annex
East Bay Housing
Oakland
 • Chinatown
Vallejo
 • Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Contra Costa County
 • Concord Naval Weapons Station
Suisun Bay
 • Mothball Fleet

National:

Military & the Environment
RABS

International:

Philippines
Okinawa
Hidden Casualties of War

Community Economics and Development: Rebuilding Communities

Renewing Hope in Alameda: Affordable housing is a cornerstone of building a sustainable community. In 2001, Arc Ecology and the City of Alameda�s coalition of housing organizations Renewed Hope succeeded in negotiating an agreement to make twenty five percent of all new housing built at the former Naval Air Station affordable.

Community development is often thought of as the need to attract large real estate interests with the capital to undertake the comprehensive rebuilding of industrial lands and neighborhoods. While enjoying the benefits of upfront capitalization and one stop shopping for government agencies, this model often comes at the expense of long term residents, neighborhood identity, and housing affordability.

Arc Ecology believes that rebuilding communities requires a different approach. Opening up property to lots of small scale community-based investment can bring abandoned urban brownfields into rapid reuse, with greater economic and social diversity and stability and without disrupting the fabric of local life. We believe in partnering with communities, blending economic and environmental sustainability into the strategies for property reuse so quality of life improves for both the neighborhoods and the community at large, and these neighborhoods can thrive for years to come.

All Arc Ecology projects are multi-disciplinary and address multiple program areas. To learn more about some of our projects that have a strong focus on community economics and development, see:

• Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, California
• Alameda Naval Air Station and FISC Annex, Alameda, California