A Working Coalition

Be it in city governance, financial strategy, business organization or urban planning --  healthy, adaptive and resilient outcomes are built upon diverse, decentralized and collaborative foundations.

 

While confronting the reality of severe budget deficits in the city and slow moving bureaucracy, the Sequoia approach to realizing this vision of Market Street does not solely depend on city or state allocation of funds and resources or bond measures alone. Rather, it once again grounds itself in emulating natural models that self-organize, build from the bottom up, cultivate cooperative relationships, utilize existing resources, institute feedback loops, and most importantly, pursue strategies that work. 

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Politically, socially, and economically, we see the success and impact of grassroots movements and the necessity to mobilize with a diversity of factions; not waiting for a top-down delivery. The working coalition strategy leverages existing organizations around the city to distribute the economic and political weight, while building trust and embedding collective ownership.

 

The fastest way to realize such a project requires city government departments to partner with community benefit districts, civic organizations, private capital, local businesses and be creative and resourceful when it comes to funding, logistics and arousing social and political will.