More than real estate
Welcome to our local city building highlights. This is a collection of things happening that we don’t want you to miss out on, and some highlights from Scott himself on Linked In.
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Why Youth Creativity Fund?
The Youth Creativity Fund is a grassroots community fund that has exponential gains for the youth in Waterloo Region. By providing a little bit of capital with no strings attached we are cultivating our biggest natural resource — the minds of our children, which in turn is helping co-create and design new ideas within our community.
Learn More$100,000 gift kicks off effort to inspire youth creativity
Waterloo Region youth in grades 5 - 12 can look forward to micro-grants enabling them to apply their creativity towards solving problems. An innovative Youth Creativity Fund (YCF) is being established thanks to a $100,000 donation by HIP Developments.
Learn MoreMusic Builds Cities Commercial
Together, HIP Developments and Digital Sabbath have created a commercial for the #Rockthistown documentary about the connecting power and community building live music has brought and continues to bring to our region.
Learn MoreLaunch program
We’re making STEAM a new team sport! Just like basketball or dance, hockey or gymnastics, now kids can enjoy seasons of STEAM activities! The new LAUNCH STEAM League has it all – teams, coaches, a bit of competition and all things STEAM with a healthy dose of fun.
Learn MoreJoy is Practical
Start a new conversation about how you live in your city. Get your copy of the joy experiments today.
Learn MoreThis is Free Streets
Typically, real estate amenities exist in the sky: on the top floor. What if we put that space on the ground floor, and gave it away for free—to creative people that need free rent to do what they need to do to make a difference in our community? This is Free Streets.
Learn MoreCreative Capital of Canada
The Creative Capital of Canada is a movement of community and business leaders seeking to celebrate and extend the lineage of problem solving creativity within Waterloo Region. 100 years ago, creative minds turned our community into an industrial powerhouse. Another generation led our transition into the innovation economy. This is our “creative lineage,” and HIP believes we have a responsibility to keep it alive and build creative confidence in a new generation of talent who call Waterloo Region home. Join us.
Learn More“MEANDER” – The Largest Living Architecture in the World
HIP Developments and the city of Cambridge unveil "Meander" - The largest living architecture sculpture in the world, by Philip Beesley. Here is a panoramic view of central shell cluster and flanking canopies within the Meander sculpture.
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Circa 1877 Sculpture Revealed
On Friday, July 17th, HIP Developments unveiled a new sculpture on the King Street frontage of its Circa 1877 condo project in Uptown Waterloo.
Learn MoreFREE STREETS Proposal
FREE STREETS offers a new approach; altering the zoning rules to allow developers to use the money they are already required to invest in projects, to create more experiential activity on the street level for condo residents and the community at large.
Learn MoreHousing Innovation Round Table
HIP is proud to be part of the Housing Innovation Round Table (HIRT), a collaborative group of real estate developers and Waterloo Region community leaders. HIRT seeks to…
Learn MoreRiver Lines: A Congregation at Play
“River Lines” will be a large, interactive play area in the centre of Gaslight Square, and it will mark the spot of the historic 1974 Grand River flood line at its peak.
Learn MoreLAUNCH and Laurier's At-Home Experience
Insights from:- President, HIP Developments
Love this. Structured team programming for kids leadership, confidence, teamwork, and other great aspects of minor sports but with STEAM learning as the sport!
Learn MoreHIP Developments and partners donated 5,000 N95 masks to the Cambridge Memorial Hospital
We all have a responsibility to contribute to changing the rate of COVID-19’s spread. Focusing on the fundamentals, HIP Developments donated 5,000 N95 masks to the Cambridge Memorial Hospital this week. Given their name because of their capability to filter 95% of airborne particles, these masks save lives, and are critical garments for those on the frontlines, whose service and sacrifice we can’t express enough thanks for.