Fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to cultivate strong neighborhoods.
Prosperity doesn’t come from endless new growth. It’s cultivated.
We help you do that.
We offer four core services: We educate and coach local leaders and change agents. We help cities and towns manage growth and development through resource conscious community planning. We analyze and interpret the fiscal health of communities, developments, and infrastructure, and we provide progressive site development and municipal engineering services to cities and local small developers that want to preserve and enhance existing neighborhoods and infrastructure.
Verdunity (pronounced vur-doo-ni-tee) is not your traditional planning or engineering firm. We believe the current model of development in cities is not sustainable or equitable, and we need to think differently if we want everyone to have access to a prosperous place at an affordable cost. We’re here to help. Our team is a diverse group of individuals devoted to building the lasting health of a community through incremental improvements that everyone is a part of.
The Go Cultivate! podcast and blog are out to help community leaders grow resource-conscious, financially resilient, people-friendly cities. We’re approaching 100 episodes of interesting conversations with our team, thought leaders, and fellow communty cultivators about inspirational projects and ideas that you can check out right now and have more on the way!
Does keeping up with your community’s needs feel like an uphill battle?
It shouldn't.
It’s a near universal truth that community expectations will grow faster than resources and pressure always mounts to do more with less. For many city managers and councils it becomes necessary to focus on simply keeping up in an environment dominated by “Not in my backyard!” and “Don’t raise my taxes!” But without action infrastructure liabilities, environmental impacts, and debt obligations are being passed on to our kids and future generations.
Our cities should have sufficient resources to address basic services and infrastructure. Cities, residents, developers, and other partners should be working together to build places where everyone can prosper now and in the future, and citizens should understand and appreciate the work their city leaders do on their behalf.