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Our team doesn’t want the Charter Communities XPRIZE to just be an “ideas” competition. We want to see the master plans that the competing teams design become real, living, thriving communities in the shortest amount of time possible.
To that end, XPRIZE is actively looking for what we’re calling a “Development Partner.” This would be a partner unlike any XPRIZE has worked with in the past; an organization with the ability to make the breakthroughs developed in the competition an immediate reality.
An ideal development partner would have the following attributes:
Are you affiliated with, or know of, any organizations with these qualities? They can be nonprofits, municipalities, or even for-profit organizations. Do you know of any groundbreaking community projects that might be interested in partnering with XPRIZE? Let us know!
To that end, XPRIZE is actively looking for what we’re calling a “Development Partner.” This would be a partner unlike any XPRIZE has worked with in the past; an organization with the ability to make the breakthroughs developed in the competition an immediate reality.
An ideal development partner would have the following attributes:
- Have a community-focused mission that aligns with XPRIZE
- Have deep, established engagement with their target community
- Have the capability to gain control of land where they could build an affordable housing development
- Have the capability to raise capital for the development
- Have a willingness to take audacious risks in order to achieve breakthroughs for their community
Are you affiliated with, or know of, any organizations with these qualities? They can be nonprofits, municipalities, or even for-profit organizations. Do you know of any groundbreaking community projects that might be interested in partnering with XPRIZE? Let us know!
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What types of organizations would be a good fit for this type of partnership? Are there specific regions where we would be more likely to find these types of organizations? What are some issues and considerations we need to be cognizant of as we pursue these relationships?
To put it succinctly, we'd love to hear about anyone who might be interested regardless of geography!
I run a for-profit affordable housing company in India. Our focus is to build self-sustained communities at scale that have access to holistic yet affordable lifestyle while being in tune with the environment.
1.We have 8 locations across north-India with 20 acres of land that is approved and ready to be developed immediately.
2.We’ve handed over 1000 homes already to families with another 3000 homes in the pipeline. Our average price per home is 10,000-20,000 USD as we are focused on low-income families.
3. We are an equity funded, debt free company with several banking relationships for mortgage arrangements for our customers.
4. We have been actively looking for an international university or research organisation to partner with on R&D/innovations across the AH value chain.
Please see our work at https://shubhashray.com/about-us/
I would love to be connected to someone at xprize to see if there is a fit here to work together whenever you guys are ready to expand outside the US.
@jrmtchll @leahpeker @FreeWilliam @samanthasuppiah @HousingMichigan @RBarragan @mkooistra @csmith102462 @JimKing @ashokjain @Rwyse @Nirmita @alexadlp @LisaHomesFund @bngejane @Jefferson @fferguson @RachitaMisra @dpelleti @Greenduck @sunshinem @SRashkin @annedodge @FanyuLin @sglaude1 - interested if you all may have further thoughts or input around possible partners? (Or questions about the search?) It seems like there may be a lot of exciting options out there!
Sam
Peniel Impact Investment is developing a digital "Analytics Translator" and Impact Investment machine (robot) with Sustainable Cities and Communities as one of our markets. There is an opportunity to create a digital twin of the development process, but we do need the right projects to document and digitize. Stakeholder Engagement, Change Management & Training, are also processes we need to digitize as we have done with this prize design, so is AEC. There are a number of approaches to these goals, and we hope to see more organisation innovating in this space.
We have committed all of our resources to research the field. As I mentioned earlier on, we need to improve the quality of our questions about the Sustainable Cities and Communities challenge, then we will have better answers.
From our end, we are seeking opportunities that will enable data-driven engagements, and XPRIZE has the believability we seek. At Peniel are able to go through the entire infrastructure lifecycle and identify areas already digitized and digitizable.
Why this digitization is important? It enables the creation of standards for scaling. So the prize design will create the product, but scaling while maintaining the XPRIZE brand standards will require a new set of tools, which might not be available within the AEC space. This is where AEC collides with Management Consulting enhanced by Analytics.
The end-vision is a pro-active infrastructure life-cycle management that is intelligent in that it knows all the prize desired outcomes and works you towards them in gamified mode.
With this, I propose another layer, in the scaling and implementation process for the sake of reaching a scale and uniform implementation. We also have developing relationships with Banks and AEC stakeholders who are early adopters of technology here in our home country.
Hey @NickAzer
I would be "super stoked" to work with XPRIZE! on this partnership!!!!
I just thought let me update this track on the latest developments in South Africa.
Using the Maboneng Precinct as a model for community development in South Africa, so we have been following their work and updates.
Maboneng Precinct has been acknowledged by many stakeholders as a pioneering project in creating sustainable communities and cities and has a strong partnership with the countries' leading property development companies and financial institutions.
What Maboneng has been able to do is unprecedented as they turned a decaying, redundant and dangerous neighbourhood into a thriving affordable community that transcends culture, age, race and social class. It's been covered by Forbes Africa as one of the places to visit while in Joburg.
The project expansion was launched two weeks ago and this next phase of development is estimated to cost at least $100m. Considering it's leading arts & cultural themes, it presents itself as an ideal candidate for Pharrell' charter community.
Curious to know what you think.
Regards
https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/pharrell-williams-sells-uber-contemporary-beverly-hills-mansion-for-14m-219939
As a stimulus strategy for COVID 19, the South African government working in collaboration with the private sector have embarked on the +/- $20 billion sustainable infrastructure plan: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-28-governments-r340bn-infrastructure-investment-announced-to-acclaim-and-misgivings/
The first of the projects was launched at the beginning of October 2020 by Balwin Properties. The development will see some 50 000 units developed including affordable housing units. You can read more about this initiative here: https://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-radio/safm-market-update/mooikloof-mega-city-residential-project-launched/
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/12/20/untitled-residences-toronto-pharrell-williams-ibi-group-u31/
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/23/pharrell-williams-huge-fan-zaha-hadid-collaboration-adidas-supershell-trainers/
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/08/18/pharrell-williams-g-star-raw-ocean-plastic-clothing-range-aw-2015/
https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/pharrell-williams-talks-about-his-new-youth-center
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/02/guallart-architects-self-sufficient-city-xiong-an-china-architecture/
https://summerofinnovation.org/#about