Client Highlights

The City Of Youngstown

The City of Youngstown, OH enlisted Steadfast City to conduct a comprehensive market analysis, facilitate stakeholder meetings, analyze investment strategies, and determine a possible financial structuring for the redevelopment of the historic seven-story Strouss Department Store in their downtown The team worked with City leadership, business leaders and over 80 community stakeholders to develop a SWOT analysis of 20 Federal Place and the downtown market to determine community needs and possible building programming Steadfast City continues to work with Youngstown to undertake the redevelopment of the $60M+ remediation, preservation, and construction process of the 300,00sqft vacant site into an energetic mixeduse building that will activate the local market, build on the momentum of recent investment within the downtown core, and achieve the

BI-STATE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Steadfast City works heavily with our cities public sector stakeholders and one of our clients is the Bi-State Development Agency. Steadfast City supports Bi-State's St Louis Regional Freightway initiative where we focus on advising The Freightway on industrial site selection and economic development marketing Currently we are performing a reverse site selection analysis interviewing regional manufacturing and distribution companies to ascertain St Louis’ Industrial Site Selection Value Proposition — the secret sauce that makes this region unique and advantageous in supporting logistics and freight-oriented businesses Additionally, Steadfast City supports Bi-State for its general economic development consulting needs relating to business attraction, real estate

Tabernacle Community Development Corporation

The Steadfast City team conducted a market feasibility study to support Tabernacle Community Development Corporation’s goal of developing quality housing and commercial space centered around Fairgrounds Park in north St Louis City Through Steadfast City’s extensive quantitative research and community stakeholder interviews, they produced a comprehensive Feasibility Report for the purpose of attracting investors and lenders, and to help Tabernacle CDC further understand and refine its development plan while ensuring project success. The plan would utilize infill development to transform low-density City blocks into thriving residential communities with access to neighborhood amenities, public transit, and commercial goods and services Steadfast City found that an aging housing stock combined with the quick lease and sale of recent developments, established government and community support, and planned future developments demonstrated market appetite and demand for development within the project area Momentum continues to build as organizations, institutions, government agencies, developers, and community members display strong commitment to continued investment and initiatives to facilitate community growth.