THE WORK
Build the conditions for
a good life.
Preserve the Legacy. Transform the Place. Build What Lasts.
Jacksonville’s Historic Eastside—known for generations as OUTEAST—is a neighborhood built on history, culture, resilience, and community. As growth reshapes the areas surrounding Downtown Jacksonville, Historic Eastside Community Development Corporation works to ensure that investment strengthens the people and places that have always made Eastside home.
Our work connects preservation, transformation, activation, and ownership to create the conditions for a good life. We restore historic homes, expand affordable housing, strengthen legacy businesses, activate arts and culture, connect residents to resources and opportunity, and create pathways to property ownership and generational wealth.
This is community development rooted in place and led with purpose—protecting what generations built while creating the opportunity for generations to come.
PRESERVE
Protect the place.
Protect what makes Eastside, Eastside. Preserve its historic homes, cultural heritage, families and stories.
ACTIVATE
Bring opportunity to life.
Bring people, creativity, culture, services and economic activity into the places we've preserved.
TRANSFORM
Invest without displacement.
Shape neighborhood investment so that physical and economic transformation benefits the people who have called Eastside home.
OWN
Build wealth that stays.
Turn neighborhood investment into assets, businesses, homes and generational wealth that remain in the community.