WCI Partners, LP was founded in 2005 by a group of Harrisburg business professionals and residents who recognized the opportunity to affect change within the city of Harrisburg and other urban areas by acquiring, rehabilitating, restoring and re-selling historic homes.

WCI believes that its real estate restoration activities - taken in conjunction with ongoing city and community projects in Harrisburg - will contribute to attracting and retaining residents in the city of Harrisburg. To that end, its goals are congruent with articulated City and State objectives to combat the well documented “Brain Drain” currently taking place in many urban areas of Pennsylvania. Overwhelming anecdotal and other evidence indicates that many people (particularly young people and couples with pre-school aged children and older couples without children) are willing to buy homes in the city but want to purchase a finished or new home of similar quality to that available in the suburbs. However, these persons do not typically want to undertake substantial rehabilitation projects or buy homes that are adjacent to vacant or dilapidated structures. Thus, their individual preference to live in the urban area may be thwarted unless developers take on larger neighborhood projects and provide the assurance that the neighborhood is fully stabilized.

WCI and its development partners also seek to cooperate with home owners that are adjacent to or nearby the homes it has under renovation, for the mutual benefit of both homeowner and developer. To that end and on a case by case basis, it assists home owners with facade, roof, porch, painting and other improvements that the home owner may not be able to afford or plan to carry out currently. The impact of making these changes while other surrounding properties are also being improved often greatly adds to the value of all properties in the nearby area.

While the idea is not original to us (see link below from Los Angeles) we strive to add a Pennsylvania flavor:
Article from CNN.Money.com: "Go Paint Your Neighbor's House"

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