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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.

$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.

Music 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.

Launch 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.

Business Unusual

Stories of independent businesses the year the world shut down.

Joy is Practical

Start a new conversation about how you live in your city. Get your copy of the joy experiments today.

This 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.

Creative 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.

“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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Don't leave it up to chance

In support of the Youth Creativity Fund established to inspire youth across Waterloo Region to apply their creativity to solving problems. When you donate to the Youth Creativity Fund, you don’t leave it up to chance. You help create it.

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.

FREE 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.

Housing 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…

River 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.

LAUNCH and Laurier's At-Home Experience

Insights from:Scott Higgins- 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!