Mission + Vision

OUR MISSION

To invest in people through the built environment.   

OUR VISION

To encourage a holistic approach to systemic issues to improve the quality of life within the Middlebury neighborhood by fostering choice in housing, job creation, and community pride. 

INITIATIVES

RESTORING HOUSING

Developing a healthy housing pipeline that provides residents the power to choose the type of housing that fits their current context and future aspirations.

CREATING ECONOMY

Encouraging the adaptive reuse of our current assets to support entrepreneurship, career pathways, and engagement with anchor institutions.

SUPPORTING PLACE

Connecting people to the place they live and each other through the built environment.

CORE VALUES

THOUGHTFUL RISK

We are not okay with the status quo! We want to continue to push ourselves to take risks, so that we learn from what works and what does not.

LONG GAME

We make decisions about long-term impact, not short-term gains. Maximizing impact, not profit. Healthily investing slowly and steadily.

UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEM

We want to do everything we can to address the system, not just the symptom. Encouraging a collective understanding of the problem and exploring community collaboration to identify the solution.

OWNING VS. RENTING

Middlebury is a place we call our own with a great sense of pride which defines our devotion to projects, initiatives, and relationship with our neighborhood.

MAKE IT BETTER

We believe everything we do, can and should get better. We accomplish this by understanding the needs of and actively listening to our neighbors.

PEOPLE FIRST + LAST

We exist for Middlebury. We work to create a model of community development that benefits all stakeholders with(in) our community, specifically our neighbors. 

AN OVERVIEW OF HOW WE WORK:

The Well CDC invests in people
through the built environment.

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Contact Us

   office@thewellakron.com

   (330) 815-1062

  647 E. Market St. Akron, OH 44304