Support for the Under-served Community of West Philadelphia

Horizon House partnered with Mission First Housing Group to develop New Market West, a new four-story, LEED certified, 90,000 SF building that would create a hub for community services and retail on a 1.5-acre vacant site. In addition to Horizon House’s social services offerings, New Market West brings high quality early childhood education, vocational support, and community-serving retail to a transit-accessible location together with affordable rental housing (later phase) to a neighborhood deeply in need of these services. The project benefited from RACP funding.

 

As an anchor tenant in the new building, Horizon House relocated 250+ staff from their 30th Street offices to three floors – approximately 65,000 SF – at New Market West. Horizon House engaged us to oversee their interests as a tenant and partner to the Developer. We worked with Horizon House, Mission First, and Columbus Property Management to manage the tenant fit-out of Horizon House’s leased space. This work included the oversight of an extensive cultural change management effort, as well as the design and construction of the space. It was our mission to help Horizon House deliver the new space on schedule and in accordance with the organization’s mission so that participants could receive services in a reimagined facility closer to home.