Its objective is simple, to create a community-led revitalization initiative that looks at the future for the next 10, 50 and 100 years. To develop the neighbourhoods we call home without displacing the local community, businesses, or culture. Acknowledging and leveraging the fact that it is the residents, the businesses, and the local culture that make these areas unique.

There's 2 parts to how we're redefining how communities are being shaped; a new community engagement approach, and a holistic Urban, Social, and Economic (UES) Development Plan.

Through a community first approach, we integrate community voices and visions into the planning process early on before concepts are finalized and engage several community groups and demographics to hear from as many people as we can. This unique approach involves the community in the problem solving and future vision process, versus the current approach where decisions are made by local authorities, concepts and plans made, approvals secured, and community engagement later in the process where it becomes difficult to make meaningful change to meet community needs due to the time, money, and effort already put prior to community engagement. This makes our approach not only inclusive, inspiring, personal, and innovative, but also more economic and saves taxpayer money to correct mistakes or make adjustments due to engaging the community late in the process, and not engaging enough to have the impact needed by large community changes.

Our Urban, Economic, and Social Development Plan is a holistic approach to breaking down the community building blocks and a holistic approach to how community changes, redevelopment, and revitalization should take place.

Urban Development enhances physical infrastructure, improves public space, and promotes green initiatives to make communities more livable with higher quality of life while achieving environmental sustainability. Our vision is to start with temporary installations as part of our community engagement efforts leading into long-term and permanent enhancements to the urban fabric.

Social Development starting with our Community Engagement process, is designed to strengthen the social fabric. Through enhanced educational opportunities, health services, and community programs that promote social cohesion and cultural diversity, our social development plan enhances and enriches communities’ social realm.

Economic Development initiatives focus on supporting local businesses, attracting new investments, and creating diverse employment opportunities to stimulate economic growth and stability. This starts with understanding challenges and concerns of the community to provide expert advice and shape various economic development programs in support with project partners for short and long term impact. This takes place simultaneously with exploring new ideas in both a local and global context, and working with all stakeholders and project partners to develop and provide needed resources.

Our goal is to make the LTF CR project a case study highlighting critical flaws in the current development approach, whether for new development or government projects, utilizing this once in a generation opportunity to not only address impacted communities, but to look forward to the future and develop impactfully for existing and future communities.

Working with local organizations, residents, and youth, we've hosted several workshops where participants have the opportunity to outline challenges, vision, and thoughts, but to problem solve and ideate for current and future challenges. This input is then translated into actionable approaches to be shared in our Urban, Social, and Economic (USE) Development Plan.

This project has been created and is being led by A77 in collaboration with local organizations and is not sponsored or funded by any entity. To financially support this project, please contact us at hello@a77inc.com with the subject "LTF CR".