A Solid Partnership: Cornerstone + Apartment Life
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Cornerstone are a purpose-driven business that seeks opportunities to transform its city by developing property and building community. It does this alongside its investors by giving them great returns and an opportunity to partner in its mission. What Cornerstone is doing is pioneering, it has not been done before in our country and we need support to claim this ground. For more information see www.cornerstoneni.com
Cornerstone believe that ‘Life is better when you’re connected’ and have prioritised giving the residents in its buildings an opportunity to be part of a real community.
When we began looking into what this would look like we kept coming across an incredible organisation that was already doing something similar in North America. We made contact with Apartment Life and were blown away when their Chief Executive, Pete Kelly wanted to meet with us.
Basically the concept involves having a community coordinator that will act as a welcoming presence, coordinate community activities and provide pastoral care for the residents within the development.
Over the past 8 months we have been in regular contact with Pete Kelly who has also introduced us to members of his wider team. Lauren Jackson is leading on this relationship and she has jumped in at the deep end by completing the Apartment Life’s training plan to fully understand what it entails. Their experience and attention to detail are second to none and having delivered this programme in 1.3 million housing units to 3 million residents right across North America they know what they are talking about.
The relationship has now been formalised out of which we have created CommunityLife, our community programme. This programme is recognised as Apartment Life’s first move into Europe, with Belfast being the first city and we are excited to see how it progresses.
Cornerstone is proud to partner with Apartment Life and seeks opportunities to shine a light on what they are doing on this side of the Atlantic.
To read more about the partnership have a look here and to find out more about Apartment Life have a look on their website;