ALL-MEMBER MEETING MAY 29th- COME HEAR PITCHES!

ALL-MEMBER MEETING MAY 29TH

It's A Spring Awakening!

WHEN: Tuesday, May 29, 6:30-8:30pm
WHERE: Central Brooklyn Public Library, Info Commons
10 Grand Army Plaza
B41 bus, or 2,3,B or Q trains

Please RSVP here. New members welcome!

IT'S ON! Join us if you want:

to buy the building your space is in and need more $$$.

to sell a commercial space you own, but want to make sure it will continue to be affordable/serve neighbors.

to contribute to an innovative project to prevent the displacement of small businesses, community spaces, cultural centers, coops, artists, and more across NYC.

to be qualified to invest your savings in something that will create a better NYC while it slowly grows!

WHAT:
Hear project partner pitches from Broadway Merchants Association (small businesses organizing in Bushwick/Bedstuy), Bay Ridge Community Hub (neighbors & local nonprofits organizing to transform a vacant public building on 86th Street) and others. Bring your three-minute pitch! Check if it’s a fit here.

WHO:
The NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative (NYC-REIC) is who shows up to participate! Is that you? Thus far we are a group of over 500 New Yorkers who are pooling their money and power to secure space for community, small business, and cultural use in NYC. Consistent with the principles and spirit of the cooperative movement, NYC REIC makes long-term, stabilizing, and transformative investments for the mutual benefit of our member-owners and our community.

PLEASE RSVP HERE

steering@nycreic.com (718) 316-6092 X 5 www.nycreic.com

BECOME A MEMBER

We are working together to secure permanently affordable space for civic, cultural, and cooperative use in NYC. We are incubating a NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative (NYC REIC) that leverages the political power and patient investments of members to stabilize neighborhoods and build an inclusive, resilient city. The NYC REIC became a New York State Not for Profit Corporation. You can see our Certificate of Incorporation and current bylaws.

There are four requirements for active membership in NYC REIC:

1. Reading and signing the member agreement

2. Contributing a membership fee of $10

3. Attending a quarterly All-Member NYC REIC meeting

4. Endeavoring to conduct membership in accordance with the principles of cooperation

STAY CONNECTED

If you add reic4nyc@gmail.com to your email contacts, this newsletter will come directly to your primary inbox instead of your promotions inbox or your spam folder. Also, if you're interested in helping with this newsletter, please drop us a line at reic4nyc@gmail.com.

Join our mailing list for monthly newsletters: http://eepurl.com/biNPEr

Learn more online: http://nycreic.com

Come to a meeting: http://nycreic.com/meet

Check out our Calendar!

We maintain a Google Calendar with all workgroup meetings. Please add this to your gCal, or see http://nycreic.com/meet to check out the workgroups active in this quarter and to stay updated with our meeting times:

https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=audtb9vef3vbc7rt6jem0q0sss%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York

SUPPORT NYC REIC

Please Help Cover our Current Operating Expenses!

You can support REIC’s development by making a charitable donation during this incubation period for very basic expenses, like the monthly charges that must be paid to circulate this e-newsletter. Please contact us at info@nycreic.com if you’d like to make a charitable contribution (not an investment) during the incubation period of the NYC REIC.