Urbane Email Format
Community Development and Urban PlanningNew York, United States11-50 Employees
Urbane Development, based in New York City, uses for-profit approaches to advance neighborhood vitality and community well-being. Founded in 2008, it operates as a certified Minority Business Enterprise and specializes in planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of place-based strategies for underserved communities. Its work draws on core capabilities in community engagement, business development, market insights, program design, organizational capacity building, and place-based investment. The practice is anchored by a participatory action research framework that seeks to ensure community involvement informs transformative outcomes. Urbane has partnered with more than 100 urban and rural communities and co-develops mixed-use real estate in the New York City and Philadelphia metro areas; a 2020 collaboration with The Food Corridor and others produced a national report on the shared food facility landscape.