Creating Community-Controlled Commons
You can own the land as much as you can own the air.
About Us
Downtown Decommodified is a cooperative development and collective land transition consulting firm. Based in Wisconsin, our mission is to drive a wedge into the extractive landlord-tenant relationship by creating and supporting cooperative development and community-controlled land stewardship.
Our services
Organize
We can help your cooperative with initial visioning, organizing and incorporating. We partner with law firms across the country to ensure that you can ensure that your final structure matches your dreams and meets local requirements. This work is done on a flat-rate basis.
Develop
We provide full service development consulting services for groups seeking to purchase or develop collectively-owned real estate. We work with your group to create a business & financial plan, secure funding, execute your property purchase and/or renovation, and begin operations. This work is done on a success-fee basis.
Assess & Maintain
For existing non-extractive communities, we can provide operational, financial, and strategic management analysis. We can provide operational training to your directors and membership as needed, and can support with communities facing crisis. This work is done on a flat-rate basis.
What people are saying
“We wouldn’t be here without you”
Students’ Co-operative
Minneapolis, MN
Pricing
Projects vary considerably. While these are our standard rates, we can consider alternative compensation structures that best fit your project needs.
Flat-rate Consulting
$150/hr
- Incorporation support
- Feasibility & Market Studies
- Loan Application Review
- Business Plan and/or Pro-forma Budget Creation
- Co-op Board Training
- Organizational Health analysis
- Strategic redevelopment Planning
- Housing Cooperative Management
- Zoning Recommendations
- General Development Consulting
- Housing Grant application review
- Organizational Crisis support
Success-fee-based Real Estate Development
10% of total project cost
- For projects with total project costs of $500,000+ that will require financing applications
- No Payment unless project is successfully financed. Downtown Decommodified is paid at closing out of financing proceeds.
- Downtown Decommodified serves as Developer and overall project manager. Your group serves as owner and final approver of any project design choices.
- We can support any incorporated entity at any phase of development from ideation through lease-up.