Community Development Projects

 

 

Objectives achieve economies of scale in small towns, coastal areas. river and rural communities through the application of a team effort across multiple communities that share in the marketing and sales costs. 

Commercial Strategies with Economies of Scale 

Mission create new sustainable wealth and economic opportunities by: 

• improving local knowledge and expertise, ensure accountability and responsibility by participants, 

• educating clients to ensure respect for local values and traditions, 

• utilizing market forces to achieve economies of scale and purchasing power, developing markets for products and services, focusing on sustainable projects in tourism, energy efficiency and supply chain, generating capital resources for small enterprises, and partnering with local government and nonprofits to reach into a community. 

Projects that Draw on Local History Traditions and Talents 

Arezza is a local, collective, multidisciplinary, private, sustainable community economic development business that focuses on projects that create new entrepreneurial opportunities in local areas around the world: 

1. made specifically for your community and unique to your region,  

2. via a multidisciplinary approach that rests on the following income creating pillars: education and training, energy efficiency, travel related services and local products, 

3. drawing on resources and expertise in a carefully constructed partnership unique to the culture, values and needs of your territory,

4. entrepreneurial - to create, try something new, and to succeed, 

5. sustainable with quality skills that empower individuals in the community and in respect of the environment,  

A Collective Multidisciplinary Approach to Wealth Creation 

 Where history and culture, knowledge and learning, local citizens and visitors, the past and the future come together and, building on past achievements, create new opportunities; communities are selected because of geographical location and proximity to transport assets. 

A Revenue Sharing Program

Special Purpose Vehicles - SPVs - are created for each participating community, each capitalized at US$ 50 thousand. Individual investors participate with cash or in kind up to US$ 5,000 with shares of US$ 100. 

Investors can participate in one or more SPVs and can own up to 50 percent in each entity. The balance of SPV shares are owned by Arezza (the project sponsor), local stakeholders (public, private and non-profit) and staff who receive compensation from the local revenue sharing program.

Local SPVs are independent of each other but benefit from a joint marketing, sales and management program.

Arezza Projects in Historic Communities

Supply Chain Management Services in American and Italian Small Towns

The Concept a program anchored in communities with a history as hub cities, hence a reliance on connections and collaborations within and among regions, resulting in a national trading platform with economies of scale utilizing historic trade routes and state of the art products and services to the benefit of community businesses, commuters, residents, and visitors.

Objectives support locally owned enterprises and achieve economies of scale pricing in selected communities in the areas of travel destination management, transit services, energy efficiency and manufacturing.

Job One: Rebuild the Supply Chain

Ways and Means projects, unique to each community but connecting participating towns via customer sharing, transit programs, energy management and similar measures.

Participants a team of product and services providers with know-how and resources to jump-start projects in collaboration with local partners.

Client Targets US and International Vacationers, Business Travelers, and Commuters; small commercial, public, and private properties typically found on main street and in historic districts, including train stations, museums, and entertainment venues; transportation services providers.

A team tasked to develop deploy manage and market uniquely local projects

Projects in Historic Towns the successful implementation of projects in local areas rests on a clear plan to develop and implement commercial strategies, economies of scale, self-finance, in kind payments, revenue-based funding and sharing that, in turn, create new sustainable wealth and economic opportunities by:

• Improving local knowledge and expertise,

• Ensuring accountability and responsibility by participants,

• Educating visitors to ensure respect for local values and traditions,

• Utilizing market forces to achieve economies of scale and purchasing power,

• Generating capital resources for small enterprises,

• Partnering with local government and nonprofits to reach into the community.

Arezza - Volt Logistics

 Innovative Energy Savings Solutions for Small Towns and Businesses

Volt Logistics specializes in properties typically found on main street and historic districts, with a focus on energy savings and building automation systems.

Property Types range from hotel, vacation and other short-term accommodations, retail, and office buildings as well as museums and entertainment venues located in historic districts and main streets of towns and suburban areas.

Innovative Solutions for Business and Commercial Districts in Historic Towns and Neighborhoods

Small and Medium-sized Commercial Buildings account for 95 percent of building stock and consume half the energy in a sector of the economy responsible for 20 percent of the total energy consumption. Owners of smaller buildings are often unaware of the amount of energy wasted and the opportunity for savings that building automation systems provide.

Building Leases define how energy costs are divided between tenants and owners. Often, these leases are not structured in a way that promotes energy savings. Tenants have no incentive to save energy in their leased premises because energy costs are based on tenant square footage. Building owners have no incentive to invest in energy efficiency because the operating expenses are passed onto tenants.

Green Leases promote energy efficiency by creating lease structures which equitably align the costs and benefits of efficiency investments between building owners and tenants.

Energy Management Systems are utilized to centrally control devices like HVAC units and lighting systems across multiple locations. EMS also provide metering, sub-metering and monitoring functions that allow facility managers to gather data and insight to make more informed decisions about energy activities across their sites.

Distributed Generation occurs on a property site when energy is sold to the building occupants; here, commercial PPAs enable businesses and governments to purchase electricity directly from the generator rather than from the utility. Power Purchase Agreements PPA are a legal contract between an electricity generator and a power purchaser.

Revenue Sharing of the Energy Savings among Properties, Tenants, Equipment and Components Suppliers and Contractors