Mission

We launch our first Youth Advisory Board and contract with Designing Justice + Designing Spaces to begin the concept development process for The Hive campus. Other partners include The Conciliation Lab and CodeVA.

The Hive's founding Youth Advisory Board is trained by Brandi Mack and Marta Alabau from Designing Justice + Designing Spaces to lead campus planning conversations.

The Hive officially launched with a public reception, press conference, and Youth Advisory Board-led bus tour.

More than two dozen experts across each of The Hive's six focus groups are convened to inform the vision for how The Hive campus could function.

Designing Justice + Designing Spaces staff synthesize all of the community engagement data into the first formal report on The Hive campus vision.

The contract with Designing Justice + Designing Spaces formally concludes as The Hive focuses on building a local team of experts. Storefront for Community Design is consulted to create the first high-level visual of the campus.

Storefront for Community Design initiates a pro bono contract with Quinn Evans to support the development of the first high-level visual of the campus.

Quinn Evans completes the visual sitemap of The Hive Campus that illustrates the campus vision for the first time.

After a year of advocacy, the Kresge Foundation approves funding that allows us to continue working with Quinn Evans on another round of community engagement to finish space planning, programming, and define our site needs.

The Hive assembles a Strategy Council and Community Wisdom Keeper Circle made up of local leaders and community members to inform the architectural programming and design of the campus.

We will know the scale and scope of The Hive campus and begin the site selection process.