When we purchase the mall, it won’t be business as usual. We’re bringing a solidarity economy to Crenshaw that gives us the tools to attack 21st-century problems and care for our community. Our plan includes:

• Affordable housing
• Community resources
• Job training programs
• Access to locally-grown food
• Green solutions
• Worker-owned cooperatives

With ownership over our own community, we’ll build a strong solidarity economy that sustains and builds wealth for the local residents.

A large redevelopment project must share the wealth with the community.

That begins with literal community ownership of the mall.

Working with our #40AcresAndAMall legal team, who are global leaders in community-investment structures, stakeholders will be able to buy shares in the mall and share in the profits generated, and participate in other community investments to build our local economy.

With control of the land in Downtown Crenshaw, the community will be able to guide the developed vision. With strong local hire requirements, the community will participate in the construction & operation of the mall. With local preference for procurement contracts, the dollars generated at Downtown Crenshaw will circulate in the community.

Downtown Crenshaw is an opportunity to set a new degree of excellence to prepare the community for today, and the future. We are taking a systems-wide approach to address the community's exposure to environmental hazards, heat island impacts, food deserts, lack of access to green space and community mobility. This includes:

• Space for two grocery stores (a home for SOLA Food Co-Op), urban garden, hydroponic farming, year-round gardening, local sustainable food sources, & a commercial kitchen for culinary artists & catering chefs
• A community solar project and shared district energy system to power the surrounding area through a Crenshaw Energy Co-op
• Sustainable building design including biophilia and embodied carbon via materiality

• A 6-acre central park for cultural/entertainment events to showcase Black culture and host community gatherings
• Senior center
• Day care center
• Creating a community fund to power community programs and a democratic economy for generations
• Honoring the Development Agreement, and strengthening the Building Trades & UNITE HERE 11 Agreements

A state-of-the-art entertainment production district, with studios and a new theater

• Building off of the tremendous power of Black culture, which inspires the world and fuels a global industry, to develop a synergistic Black creative space
• A training program to prepare area residents for entertainment industry jobs
• State-of-the-art production studios, recording studios, and new theater

Building on the successful community- serving businesses operating in the mall, we will attract quality retail tenants to serve our economically diverse Crenshaw community. This includes a hotel, sit-down restaurants, office space to grow Black enterprises, and encouraging the growth of worker-owned cooperatives. We will feature education facilities, business incubation space, and job training programs to prepare local area residents for the 21st century economy.

Simultaneous to our effort to redevelop the Crenshaw Mall, we are buying homes, apartment buildings and commercial property in the surrounding area to place them into the Liberty Community Land Trust so they can be preserved as permanently affordable to longtime residents and merchants, and create neighborhood stability.