Values

Mission-based market work

Development Values

Adre innovates with sustainable, resilient, and inclusive development. We embody a global commitment to preserve climate health through environmental responsibility and leverage our lived experience and deep community connections to develop in line with local priorities and needs.

As a community-driven developer, Adre is committed to a bold vision of design excellence, development innovation, educational advancement, and environmental stewardship, both in building construction and equitable outcomes.

  • Design Excellence

    As a developer, Adre partners with architects, landscape architects, and engineers to develop projects with design excellence. Modern architecture with simple lines and spatial efficiency, is enhanced by natural light, indoor-outdoor spaces, quality materials, and innovative technologies. Developments reference a regional vernacular and respect the local context while promoting novel design expressions.

  • Development Innovation

    Adre thinks creatively about the building process. We utilize innovative building technologies, such as Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). Further we think differently about how business should be done - exploring new community partnerships, funding mechanisms, and shared community ownership structures.

  • Educational Advancement

    Adre team members partner with higher educational institutions to deliver intentional equity-centered studios that inspire the next generation of leaders. Adre partners with youth programs to introduce the fields of development, design, and construction to BIPOC-youth.

  • Environmental Stewardship

    Adre is committed to healthy and resilient buildings for all communities. We plan projects that conserve water and energy; have renewable energy production; reduce waste; and utilize healthy regionally sourced materials. Our projects have a minimal carbon footprint, follow a path to net zero, and pursue LEED or Earth Advantage certification.

  • Equitable Outcomes

    Adre envisions a future, in which our projects help strengthen the communities we work with by promoting equity. We craft projects for organizational and individual wealth creation and financial stability through utilizing women- and BIPOC-owned firms and providing ownership / a vested power in shaping one’s neighborhood.

Why develop differently?

In the United States, the real estate development industry has historically been one of exclusion; with typical development irreverent to communities of color, the environment, and placemaking. Additionally, when development is good, the benefits are usually reserved for a select few, namely the wealthy.

Climate Emergency

Building construction and operations have a significant impact on the climate, being responsible for 40% of carbon emissions. The climate crisis continues to have a disproportionate impact on low-income people and communities of color. In response to climate chaos, real estate developers must launch a more resilient building industry. > Learn more

Segregated by Design

Black people account for 13.4% of the US population, but only make up 5% of real estate and land use professions with only 2% of real estate management firms BIPOC-owned. Additionally, black homeownership rates have declined to levels not seen since the 1960s, when private race-based discrimination was legal. Intentional exclusion and underrepresentation have resulted in development patterns laced with implicit bias and low economic benefits to communities of color. > Learn more

Call to Action

In Oregon we have the right players between the business, philanthropy, nonprofit, faith, and government sectors to change our industry rapidly. We need to be emboldened with the fact that we can be pro-business, pro-environment and push for social justice all at the same time.