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- EIN 41-1367503
- (651) 288-8746
- 925 Payne Ave Ste 201 Saint Paul MN 55130-4282 USA
- www.esndc.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development, Homeless & Housing, Housing Development, Construction & Management, Housing Support, Urban & Community Economic Development
Mission: To foster a safe, diverse and thriving neighborhood by engaging the community to create healthy, affordable housing and support commercial development.
Programs: Housing development - esndc conducts a number of outreach, educational and leadership building activities that contribute to safer and healthier affordable housing. Esndc focuses on lead in housing. In 2017, partnering with ramsey county health, esndc completed 70 lead window replacement home rehabs. Esndc also worked with a development partner to purchase four tax forfeit properties, rehab them, then sell them at affordable prices.
economic development - in 2017, esndc provided 25 local small businesses with free technical assistance via the ramsey county funded bizaware program. Esndc completed two commercial rehab projects in 2017 and at year's end had another three under construction. These are funded by cdbg dollars from the city of st. Paul. 294,0000 of cdbg funding for these leveraged $3. 4 million of private investment and created 72 new jobs. Esndc continued to own and operate the old swedish bank building - a 10,000 sf three-story historic building that is the cornerstone of the payne avenue commercial cooridor.
the old swedish bank building, llc - this llc was formed to acquire, rehabilitate, and own the commercial use building (bank building) located at 965 payne avenue, saint paul, minnesota. The former bank building had leases with three entities in 2017 esndc itself, lutheran social services, and merrick community services.