MACC Building Concept Book

2014 ABERRATIONS + JUSTIN MAST DESIGN & DEVELOPMENTc
JUSTIN MAST . KAIJA E WUOLLET | ALEX O’DELL . KYLE HOFF . JOSH LIPNIK . JOSH BUDIONGON
PRODUCED FOR : MACK DEVELOPMENT . 7900 MACK AVENUE . DETROIT MI 48214

This project is made possible by the generosity of the
Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Foundation
Contributors:
Jonathan Demers, Eric Russ, Leon Stevenson, Kristen
Selle, Michael Feng, Ana Stutler, Nathanael Egger,
Matthew Rojek, and Sandra Yu.

O V E R V I E WO V E R V I E W

I N T R O D U C T I O N
M I S S I O N
C O M M U N I T Y V I S I O N
B U I L D I N G V I S I O N

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The Mack
Community
is ready for a
new building.
It started seven
years ago with a
commitment to
show God’s love to a
neighborhood. Since
then, we’ve seen
wonderful things
happen. A church
body has grown and
the community has
responded.
In many ways, this
building will be an
extension of the life
that has taken place
here.
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It’s not just any neighborhood, it’s our home. We
are proud residents of the neighborhood and have
been for many years. We’re excited to be a part
of this organization because we see it responding
to needs in our community—needs that have
been expressed by our community, specifically
in the areas of education, housing, and economic
development. And we’ve responded to those
concerns with opportunities that celebrate literacy,
offer excellent legal services, organize high-quality
youth recreation and sports, rehabilitate homes,
and start small businesses.
MACC Development is focused
specifically on the holistic
revitalization of Detroit’s 48214
neighborhood.
M I S S I O N

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OVERVIEW
RENT NEEDED
RENT $
YR 1 2 3 4
RETAIL REVENUE
OTHER PROGRAMS
DOWNTOWN
48214
ZIP CODE

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C O M M U N I T Y V I S I O N

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OVERVIEW
MACC Development is essentially the sum of
its parts. MACC Lit is tutoring kids, MACC legal
is providing affordable legal services, MACC
Housing is rehabbing homes and engaging
blight, and MACC Sports is creating community
through soccer.
With all this amazing work taking place in our
organization, plus the activity happening at
Mack Ave Community Church, there is a lot
going on. This creates a lot of energy in the
community, and that provides an opportunity to
build relationships and neighboring friendships.
Starting out decentralized has allowed us to
grow in a very grassroots way.
At the same time, that effort has created an
energy that cannot really be located in one
specific place, at least not until now. Before,
we really struggled to centralize our efforts and
concentrate our time and energy in a single
meeting space. We didn’t want a headquarters
for the sake of one; we desire to see each of our
initiatives building off of each other, creating
synergy that can and will add great value to our
community as a whole.
We long to have a place
where people can celebrate
their community.

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The building was never a focus for us; we didn’t
want that to become the goal of our ministry.
We just wanted to trust the Lord. Sure enough,
God provided us with this incredible building
right on Mack Avenue—a huge blessing. It was
as if the Lord was saying “I’m providing a space
for you because you’ve always longed to have a
place where people can know who and where
you are.” We’ve wanted a central location where
the community can feel like they have a safe
place to go and they can be reminded of their
God-given value, purpose and worth.
This brings us to the next stage of Mack Avenue
Community Church’s ministry. At ﬁrst, we
were introducing ourselves to the community,
relocating to the neighborhood, and building
trust. But now, we’re past all of that. We’re
neighbors. We’re here, we’re invested in
the community, we’re shareholders in the
community. We’ve been building friendships
and inﬂuence within the community. So now,
we can have a place that builds a landmark for
the people in the neighborhood. The MACC
Building is a natural progression of what God is
doing in our ministry.
The MACC Building is a
natural progression of what
God is doing in our ministry.
B U I L D I N G V I S I O N

N E I G H B O R H O O DN E I G H B O R H O O D

T H E 4 8 2 1 4 Z I P C O D E
M A C K A V E N U E
T H E B L O C K

“This community has
great value. It’s been
created by God and
the people who are a
part of it are created
with dignity, value, and
worth.”

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T H E 4 8 2 1 4 Z I P C O D E
MACC
BUILDING
MACK AVENUE
EAST
JEFFERSON
AVENUE
MACK
CHURCH

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NEIGHBORHOOD
When we say the 48214, we are talking about
a speciﬁc place here on the lower East side
of Detroit. This zip code contains all sorts
of dynamics—everything from the historic
Indian and West Village neighborhoods, to the
stabilizing neighborhood of Pingree Park, to
exciting business ventures that are happening on
Jeﬀerson and Agnes, to new business ventures
on Mack Avenue. We’ve got a diversity of
ethnic groups, socioeconomic statuses, church
families, and neighborhood schools. All of that
makes for a lot of exciting things happening in
one place. We’re proud to be in the middle of
all that activity as homeowners and residents of
the community.
MACC Development is
focused on the holistic
revitalization of Detroit’s
48214 neighborhood.

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M A C K A V E N U E
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NEIGHBORHOOD
Challenging dynamics exist
within our community. Mack
Avenue has served as an
artificial dividing line between
people, and therefore cultures
and communities, that have
tensions between them. Our
neighborhoods are defined
by misunderstanding and
conflict. As a church, what
we’ve said is that we want to
bridge this divide. We want to
foster a community that is able
to acknowledge the past and
move forward, overcoming
prior tensions that have kept
our neighborhoods divided.
Wewanttobethedrivingforce
for uniting this community.
Mack Avenue has
been an artificial
dividing line
between people.
O E T H E
IROQUIOS
BURNS
FISCHER
Clinic (GCC)
Nichols Elementary
Waldorf School
Greater Christ Church
Old School
Mack Alive

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NEIGHBORHOOD
The building was extremely affordable, but being right
on Mack Avenue also has incredible strategic significance
for being a space to gather together our diverse
communities, like in Indian Village, West Village, Pingree
Park, surrounding neighborhoods, folks of different
backgrounds and different stories. This building is now
a meeting place for those communities—a space where
people can be brought together under common goals and
values, a space where we can eliminate the fragmentation
that obstructs greater progress in our neighborhood.
Buying the MACC building was a
strategic decision.

S T R A T E G Y
U S E R G R O U P S

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M A C K A V E N U E C O M M U N I T Y C H U R C H

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PEOPLE
Mack Ave is a community
church with a local focus.
The church is an expression—we are here to
share our faith, help others know who Christ is
and to see more worshippers honor Christ. Our
heart, our whole vision, our whole desire is to
bring honor and attention to God through the
Holy Spirit so that God will be made much of and
that people will have a personal relationship with
Jesus Christ. We do that not through impersonal
means—a drive-by ministry, if you will—but
through the diligent laboring of relationship-
building and neighboring, through the building
of trust and expressions of compassion.

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PEOPLE
It started with Mack Ave Church.
MACC Development was a response.
When we started Mack Avenue Community Church, what we
realized is that in our community—as we were continually
caring for people, neighboring and sharing the Gospel—we
found ourselves having to help people with a lot of home
renovations. The way we were able to communicate love to
people was not just by saying “Hey I just wanna let you know
Jesus loves you.” We were able to show this by going over to
their home and saying “How can I help you with your door,
how can I help you nudge your walls, how can I help you
paint?” As we began to help and care for people practically,
people began to see us not just as foreigners proclaiming the
Gospel, but as their neighbors and friends, which gave us an
opportunity to share the love of Christ.
I share that because God has shown us that this ministry is
going to look diﬀerent than what we thought. A big portion of
our work here is brick and mortar in addition to proclaiming
the Gospel. We found ourselves renovating and buying homes.
We’ve found ourselves helping kids learn to read and helping
people with legal matters in our community. God basically
said, “You’re going to have to minister with your hands,” and
that’s how MACC Development started.
- Eric Russ, Lead Pastor

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PEOPLE
We came with this notion
of what we were going
to do, but God was like:
“No actually you have
to minister with your
hands.”

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As an organization, we have deliberately chosen
our neighborhood’s agenda, and no one else’s.
Every program, effort, and initiative has been
created at some level as a response to the
concerns raised by our community—concerns
thatincludetheissuesofeducation,housing,and
economic development. MACC Development
has, over the past three years, created programs
to respond to those issues—programs that
focus on issues of literacy, legal services, youth
and recreation, housing rehabilitation, and
small business development. Each staff and
support staff member is a 48214 resident, as is
the majority of our Board of Directors. That’s led
to community-based responses that exchange
the top-failures of other development projects
with the front-porch approach we’ve chosen to
take. While we continue to seek out and apply
best practices in development, gain the support
of partners and stakeholders in the Greater
Detroit region, and make major investments
in our community, we remain confident that
our organizational decisions are guided by the
wishes of our community first and foremost.
MACC Development has
created programs that
respond to major needs in
the neighborhood.
M A C C D E V E L O P M E N T

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PEOPLEMACC DEVELOPMENT
MACC
LIT
MACC
LEGAL
MACC
HOUSING
MACC
SPORTS

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PEOPLE
MACC Lit provides one-on-
one tutoring to students in
our community.
Through participation in this literacy program,
we’ve seen kids grow an average of almost
two and a half reading levels every year! This is
incredibly important in our community, where
illiteracy has made success in high school,
college, and beyond feel almost inaccessible.
At MACC Lit, we are helping parents engage
this pressing issue by making sure their
children enjoy quality time and attention from
individual tutors, by providing detailed lessons
for each child, by organizing a top-ﬂight two-
month summer enrichment experience, and by
inviting them to celebrate with us each month
at a potluck dinner that highlights our students
growth and sets time aside for parents and
MACC Lit staﬀ to discuss literacy strategies in
the home.
We’re seeing children not just succeeding in
literacy, but succeeding in school and thriving
in life.

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MACC Legal meets an
important need for legal
services on the Lower East side.
Legal challenges obstruct real change in our
neighborhood. From restraining orders, workers
compensation, public beneﬁts, and landlord-tenant
challenges, our community has a great demand for
quality legal services, but little access. Hiring an
attorney is almost entirely prohibitive, and nearly all
aﬀordable, Detroit-based legal services are located
in the central or west sides of the city. If neighbors
do manage to successfully navigate the limited city
transportation services, legal clinics often turn away
4 out of 5 clients.
In response, MACC Legal provides access to high-
quality attorneys and legal volunteers at an incredibly
reduced rate. Clients have access to assistance with
legal documents and, in the future, courtroom
representation and mediation services. In every
case, clients are cared for holistically and are served
out of a framework of restorative mediation and just
reconciliation as opposed to more common forms
of antagonistic legal advice.
M A C C L E G A L

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PEOPLE
MACC Housing focuses on
rehabilitating homes and
removing blight.
Affordable housing is a penultimate issue in our
neighborhood. Traditional forms of financing have
made it almost impossible to purchase a home, even
as housing prices remain weighed down by pervasive
blight. The total effect is a complicated series of
neighborhood dynamics that perpetuate crime and
drive down the quality of living experience.
Inresponse,we’verenovatedandsoldhomestofamilies
within our community by leveraging volunteers,
donations, and the charitable work of church members
and local contractors. More recently, we’ve focused on
the issue of blight engagement, where we’ve gathered
hundreds of volunteers and partnered them with local
residents and block clubs who know the major issues
of their communities. These groups—led by the local
residents—tackle everything from home improvement
projects and the maintenance of public spaces and
playgrounds, to boarding up hazardous vacant homes,
removing illegal dumping, clearing overgrown alleys,
and beautification projects. What’s accomplished is
more than clean ups and fix-ups; we see a dynamic
cross-cultural activity that destroys stereotypes and
challenges people from different backgrounds and
experiences—our neighbors and outside volunteers—
to collaborate for the greater good.

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PEOPLE
MACC Sports has grown to
include well over 100 kids in
just three seasons.
MACC sports has been around for three
seasons and focuses speciﬁcally on soccer.
Soccer was chosen as an alternative sport by
our neighborhood after mass surveying. We’ve
seen the program grow from just over 50 kids
to well over 100 in the past three seasons. It’s
great to see families, youth, and parents coming
out, volunteering, and enjoying healthy, safe
recreation right in our backyard. This program
has turned Pingree Park—what was otherwise
a pretty quiet and absent public space—into a
really exciting space to be on Saturdays. We’re
excited to see that continue to expand.

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“MACC Sports has turned
Pingree Park—what was
otherwise a pretty quiet
and absent public space—
into an exciting, active
community-owned space
that we can all be proud of
and call our own.”

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T H E C O M M O N S
image credit: Hyde Park Laundromat, by Dani Brandimarte

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PEOPLE
The Commons is a coffee
shop & laundromat that will
provide a much needed third
space in our neighborhood.
At MACC Development, we recognize that
addressing issues like housing, recreation, and
youth literacy are incredibly important, but we
also know that for economic development to
happen in this community, we need to be able
to address the issues of small business and
entrepreneurship. In some cases, we provide
less formal support through simple marketing,
recommendations, and interviews. In more
formal respects, we are engaged in a detailed
economic development plan for the Mack
Avenue corridor.
Currently,we’redevelopingabusinesscalledThe
Commons, which will combine a laundromat
and coffee shop to address two market needs
in our neighborhood. It will create a safe third
space, where folks in the neighborhood will be
able to visit, meet a basic need, access free wifi,
enjoy a great cup of coffee, and experience the
rest of the activity in our building.

“Our dream is to have
people in our community
be able to go to a place
where things are fresh.”

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We have great programs…
All this amazing work taking place—including
the life that’s happening in Mack Avenue
Community Church—creates an energy and
a series of opportunities, where we can grow,
serve, love, and build neighboring friendships.
Starting out decentralized has allowed us to
grow in a very grassroots way.
S T R A T E G Y
MACC
LIT
MACC
LIT
MACC
DEVELOPMENT
MACC
DEVELOPMENT
MACK AVE
CHURCH
MACK AVE
CHURCH
THE
COMMONS
THE
COMMONS
MACC
LEGAL
MACC
LEGAL
MACC
SPORTS
MACC
SPORTS
MACC
HOUSING
MACC
HOUSING

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PEOPLE
…but now it’s time to bring
them together.
Until now, we haven’t been able to ground this
energy. It is time to centralize our efforts and
begin to concentrate our time, energy, and
meeting spaces. We want our initiatives to build
off each other, to create a synergy that can
add value to the different organizations, and
maximize the impact on the community.
MACC
LIT
MACC
DEVELOPMENT
MACK AVE
CHURCH
THE
COMMONS
THE
COMMONS
MACC
LEGAL
MACC
SPORTS
MACC
SPORTS
MACC
HOUSING

P R O G R A M
F L O O R P L A N S
E X T E R I O R
E D U C A T I O N & E N G A G E M E N T
C U R R E N T B U I L D I N G
I N T E R I O R

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We want to bring
people together...
Not every organization will need
to use the conference room
at the same time. Large group
gatherings will not happen every
day. But there is a need for both.
It is important to provide the
necessary programmed space for
all organizations.
P R O G R A M

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BUILDING
...in a building that
creates ﬂow.
The spatial design and movement
of people through a building with
many organizations is critical.

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F L O O R P L A N S
THE COMMONS
GATHERING SPACE
KITCHEN
CONF. RM
MACC DEV.
MACK CHURCH MACC LEGAL
MACC LIT
MACC LIT
LOBBY
SECOND FLOOR PLAN MAIN FLOOR PLAN

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BUILDING
We increase the
strength of our
programs when
unified in one space.
Having all of our programs under
one roof is exciting. For example,
our MACC Sports Director—after
hosting a parent’s night—will be able
to introduce an interested family to
the leadership of MACC Lit, or to one
of the pastors at MACC, or to the
new business just a flight of stairs
away.
Kids can have a joyful experience
on one end of the building, while
others are having quality times of
engagement with folks on the other
end of the building, allowing each
program to flourish and grow. The
different programs and the life that
happens in these programs will all be
connected in a centralized, helpful,
and unified way. The fragmentation
we experience now will be remedied
substantially.
MACC LIT
YOGA/KUNG FU
MECHANICAL
STRUCTURAL
BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN

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Democratize the coﬀee shop and
laundromat experience.
One of the most exciting features of this building is the
integration of a small business into the storefront. Looking
at the building, it’s pretty clear that the main ﬂoor is a nice
storefront space and an ideal place to start a new business
on Mack Avenue. As we began to think through what kind of
a business we want to put in that building, we really wanted
to make sure the business was driven by wise decision
making, but also a vision for creating that counter-cultural
community—that dynamic intersection of residents from all
of our nearby neighborhoods—that we’re so excited about.
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The second floor has ample natural
light and the large beautiful space
makes an ideal gathering area.
The different organizations that are housed here need
large gathering spaces for different reasons. For example,
MACC Sports holds seasonal celebrations for parents and
their children. MACC Lit invites parents, tutors and kids
to frequent community nights and semester celebrations.
MACC Legal holds workshops for residents and attorneys.
When the space is not used by a specific group, it can
function as additional seating for cafe patrons, or an
alternative workspace for user groups and their staff already
in the building. It is a large, open and flexible space, available
for all organizations that are housed here.
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BUILDING
GATHERING DINING WORKING

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Private work space, small group meeting
space and large group presentation space is
required by many organizations.
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BUILDING
Defining the different work spaces needed, reveals that these
needs overlap between many of the different groups, and
some of these spaces can be shared. Work environments
that foster collaboration, flexibility and comfort is expressed
through simple design, usable wall surfaces and plant life.
Increased happiness equals increased work quality and
production, aligning well with MACC’s values.

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access to daylight
comfortable seating
natural materials
children long for comfort,
nooks and engaging spaces
children thrive when accomplish-
ments are on display

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BUILDING
In our community
illiteracy is nearly at
50% and it’s one of
the major issues that
we engage through
MACC Lit.
The low literacy rate inevitably
causes students to fall behind
at the elementary ages, making
highschoolandaccesstocollege
even more diﬃcult. MACC Lit is
a literacy program that provides
one-on-one tutoring to students
in our community, and we’ve
seen kids who participate in the
program grow an average of two
and a half reading levels every
year. We are trying to address
the major issues by making sure
that kids get quality time and
attention from tutors and what
we’re seeing is great results
in kids not just succeeding
in literacy, but succeeding in
school in general.
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3
4
5
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JOSH 2011
DEMETRIA 2011
SAMMY 2010
NATASHA 2012
SARA 2014
MEASUREUP
celebrate milestones in life, engaging kids
and displaying history of Macc Lit program

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BUILDING
Many groups of people will pass
through the doors—how can they
leave their mark?
Even though the different organizations have separate
spaces within the building, many of the building users
participate in multiple programs and they all have different
things to share. Placing chalkboards strategically, both
inside and outside in different parts of the building, is a
possible platform for communication and announcements
to folks, creating a unifying design element. These boards
can be places for announcements, or patrons can share
their experiences, or someone can share an inspiring quote.
Whatever the content, the act of participation and a place
to leave your mark is one method to connect the various
programs and patrons. Who knows what these collisions
may create? We hope that each organization would use
their chalkboard platform in whatever way they see fit, to
share their story with the rest of the building.

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C U R R E N T B U I L D I N G

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BUILDINGWe’re already seeing a lot of good
things happening. At the same time,
we know it’s just kind of a glimpse.
We’ve already begun to use the MACC building for some
things, like hosting MACC Lit and MACC Legal as some of
our ﬁrst user groups. We have also hosted a number of other
activities, from home school co-ops to Kung Fu classes to
Mack Avenue Community Church’s discipleship retreat.
In its current form, there are a lot of good things already
happening. At the same time, we know it’s just a glimpse of
the community activities and life in this building. It makes us
eager for the full work that will be happening soon.

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D E V E L O P M E N T S T R A T E G Y
R E T A I L S T R A T E G Y
N E I G H B O R H O O D A P P R O A C H
F I N A N C I A L S T R A T E G Y

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A retail space and our strategy for
long-lasting community impact.
From an operational standpoint, we really see the addition of
The Commons as the completion of a model for long-term
sustainable community development and impact. It started
with the Mack Ave Church and a mission to bring God’s
message—that the people in this neighborhood have dignity,
value, and worth. This then grew into the formation of MACC
Development, specifically focused on socioeconomic issues
within the community. Now, we’re looking to compliment
those efforts with The Commons, a program that participates
and augments in the economic vitality of the area.
The benefits of this are really two-fold. First, we believe
that starting a business, where there is an exchange—where
people from the community come to pay for something
they value—gives people dignity. The ability to participate in
a market gives people a sense of value, both for themselves
and their neighborhood. In the long run, building this sense
of worth is necessary for making the kind of change that will
last. We are also confident that The Commons will begin
to pave the way for future business development along the
Mack Avenue corridor.
Second, our goal is to be able to operate with a diminishing
reliance on outside grants and donations. Including a retail
operation in the building requires an investment upfront, but
it also reduces our need for outside funds year after year.
We plan to be a part of this community for a long time. This
three-pronged approach is our way of ensuring that.
D E V E L O P M E N T S T R A T E G Y

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DEVELOPMENT
MISSION
ENGAGEMENT
SUSTAINABILITY
MACC
DEVELOPENT
MACK AVE
CHURCH
THE
COMMONS

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R E T A I L S T R A T E G Y

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DEVELOPMENT
Strategically, the idea of a combined coffee /laundry space
meets two major market needs in our community. To start,
there aren’t many nearby coffee shops for folks to enjoy a cup of
coffee and meet in a safe, comfortable environment. At the same
time, there are few laundromats for the many renters living in
our neighborhood. The Commons brings both demands under
the same roof in a complementary way.
But it is really more than that. The Commons will create
opportunities for cultural exchange. These two separate parts
of the business appeal to two different constituencies in our
community. The coffee shop will appeal to folks with more
disposable income, while the laundromat has greater inherent
appeal to many of the renters in our neighborhood who often
don’t have the same kind of disposable income and rarely have
access to their laundry facilities at home. For both, this creates
a much needed comfortable third space in our neighborhood.
Bringing those communities together is an opportunity to create
that culture and that unified community that we’re longing for
here. We cannot help but get excited about what’s to come!
- Matthew Rojak and Nate Egger, The Commons
The Commons—A Social Business
That Connects

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RENT NEEDED
YR 1 2 3 4
RETAIL REVENUE
OTHER PROGRAMS
DOWNTOWN
48214
ZIP CODE
MACC
BUILDING
MACK AVENUE
EAST
JEFFERSON
AVENUE
MACK
CHURCH

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DEVELOPMENT
The 48124 zip code in Detroit
is our home.
We’re located in a place that
is ready for business.
It’s a dynamic and complicated place, and it’s our
home. We suﬀer some of the city’s highest poverty
rates and yet house some of the city’s most exciting
start-up businesses. Many of our neighborhoods
are riddled with unwelcome blight, while others are
ﬂush with beautiful, historic homes. Block clubs,
development organizations, and neighborhood
associations have banded together to stabilize the
neighborhood, and we’re excited to be a part of
that process.
Mack Avenue sits in the middle of two distinct,
densely populated neighborhoods. It’s a prime
target for business development, as the vast
majority of nearby residents travel outside the
zip code and city to make their commercial
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Our community
members live in this
neighborhood.
We’ve invited
residents from within
and transplants
from outside the
community to build
their lives and raise
their families here.
Focusing our eﬀorts
has allowed us to
make a deeper impact,
and has helped us
keep from spreading
ourselves thin.
Neighboring has
been a crucial
component in our
lives. Embedded
in the DNA of the
Mack Ave Church
Community is this
idea of sharing God’s
love by neighboring—
everything from
babysitting and BBQ
dinners to home
renovations and alley
clean ups.
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RETAIL REVENUE
OTHER PROGRAMS
YR 1 2 3 4
MACK CHURCH RESIDENTS
MACK CHURCH NEIGHBORS

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DEVELOPMENT
Over the past seven years,
we’ve become rooted.
While starting a business is no easy venture, and
we deﬁnitely acknowledge that, we’re excited
because we’re able to take the investment
that we’ve made into this neighborhood—the
relationships that we’ve built with families, the
social capital that we have—and expose this
business to all these folks and families that we’ve
been blessed to know and build neighboring
friendships with. That’s going to add a lot of
value, not just to us and our neighbors, but
to the business, and that’s going to create a
synergy where we’ll beneﬁt from the hard work
and investment that’s taken place over the last
few years.

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F I N A N C I A L A P P R O A C H
The MACC Building positions
groups to leverage their strengths.
By sharing a building, the user groups in the MACC
Building are able to build on each other’s strengths.
Programs like MACC Lit, MACC Legal, and MACC
Housing are can contribute administrative resources for
the members in the rest of the building. All the MACC
Development programs have built social capital that
will beneﬁt The Commons. As the retail business of The
Commons grows, it will be able to carry a larger ﬁnancial
load than the other groups.
MACKAVECHURCH
MACCLIT
THE COMMONSMACCSPORTS
MACCHOUSING
MACCLEGAL
MACC
BUILDING
MACCLITS MACCLEGAL
MONEY
RESOURCES
SOCIAL CAPITAL

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DEVELOPMENT
Long term, MACC Development
becomes less and less dependent
on funding.
Startup capital and social capital through years of
neighborhood investment make the retail business
possible. Overtime, as the business thrives, MACC
Development relies on less and less funding to maintain
its operations. This creates a model for long-term
sustainability.
RENT NEEDED
YR 1 2 3 4
RETAIL REVENUE
OTHER PROGRAMS
YEAR
RENT $
RETAIL
MACC
PROGRAMS
MACC
DEVELOPMENT
1 2 3 4 5

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