TangoCenter

From 2003-2009, a non-profit community center in downtown Eugene Oregon. Created to repair the downtown, the community we built finally figured out how. In 2007, we successfully launched a ballot measure to defund the "urban renewal" district, which was incentivizing commercial property owners and developers to let buildings go empty and deteriorate. Taking away their potential "free lunch" forced these slumlords to sell their properties to smaller owners, who genuinely wanted to revive them. The result was a renaissance for the downtown.