10 years ago, in the thick of the housing crisis, we started a company to use real estate to create triple bottom line solutions.  If you have interdisciplinary experience in real estate, urbanism or community…

A deliberative development disrupts the multifamily housing market with an alternative model of family living in Seattle. 35-units of family friendly-housing, developed by families for families.

Byrd Barr Place is creating a national model for an African American land trust. Building on our work together with Africatown, Byrd Barr Place has hired FIX to create a portable tool kit to help communities of color…

Impact Investing is up 33%, representing $8.72 trillion and 22% of all professionally managed assets in the U.S. Impact Development uses place-based solutions to equitably grow communities...

We've changed our name to match our mission. Form In Context, Inc., formerly known as FIX, is now formally FIX Impact Development. And we have a new address. Come by and see our new digs!

2017 UW Runstad Fellowship travels to Australia to study equitable development, exploring issues of affordability, livability, and racial-social inclusion to inform Seattle's best practices for the next 100 years.

Capitol Hill Housing & Africatown have created a new model of equitable development with the Liberty Bank Building. While redlining left a legacy of racial exclusion perpetuated by today's growth patterns, Seattle…

Amazon, Africatown, current and former city leaders discuss our history of inequity and the consequences of growth toward creating solutions for affordability and inclusion.

Congratulations to Dunn & Hobbes! ULI names Chophouse one of the top 25 best projects in the world for 2016.

Real estate is 15% of the US GDP, controls our ability to consistently innovate, and has an intergenerational magnifying effect across nearly every sector of our culture and economy...

Seattle Office of Economic Development leads the Mayor's Commercial Affordability initiative to create new opportunity for local small business in city-owned property starting with transforming King Street Station into…

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Ron Sher opens a new gathering spot along the Burke Gilman Trail -- a bike-friendly adaptive reuse with two new restaurants from the Huxley Wallace Collective that gives reason to pause and connect in a busy…

In early 2016, Seattle Mayor Murray launched the Commercial Affordability initiative to develop new policies and practices that would foster a more supportive climate for local small businesses. With commercial rents…

Building capacity within the black small business community to provide equitable access to opportunity and long-term wealth creation.

Seattle's Office of Economic Development engaged FIX to help Africatown and BCIA prove out their vision for an innovation center and affordable housing development at retired Fire Station 6 in the Central Area.

Dunn & Hobbes' urban infill development added six stories and 30,000 square feet of office, retail and residential to a Character Structure building, creating a true mix of use...and one heck of a complex construction…

Today, we can build tens of thousands of inherently affordable housing units in Seattle with backyard cottages. Of the 124,000 eligible single family lots, less than 800 are host to a permitted cottages. But there's a…

FIX leads a two-year research project, studying the most creative and innovative organizations in US from Burning Man to Google to inspire designs for the future of office and how we work. Turns out, the design of a…

Rainier Oven owner expands her community of affordable office for Seattle's young creatives, turning an acre of Central Area redevelopment into a long-term home for artists, makers and entrepreneurs.

The country's largest bicycle advocacy organization opens an 8,000-square-foot headquarters to influence statewide policy and improve lives by getting more people riding more safely.

Dunn & Hobbes' 45,000 square foot adaptive reuse of an old auto row building on Capitol Hill is an elegant precedent for how to create triple bottom line development.

Seattle's Office of Economic Development contracts FIX to help it drive positive outcomes, bolstering viability of all place-based programs across city agencies and across private and public sectors.

The 2015 ULI Young Leaders Group tackle the politics of opposing density by leading a workshop to engage naysayers toward providing the Mayor's office with insights that will enable a more achievable density.

FIX creates a design strategy for national developer Forest City to attract and house the middle-income wage earners of Seattle's major institutions.

National developer Forest City redevelops the former San Francisco Chronicle headquarters into the next generation of downtown innovation center to attract tech giants back from suburbia.

FIX adds creative and strategic capacity with advisory services and project management, helping the small developer flexibly pursue innovative new projects.

Using place to increase creativity and innovation, Forest City launches the first phase of a 2MM square foot redevelopment at the San Francisco Chronicle property.

FIX publishes an original book of Seattle demographics and audit of cultural influencers, exploring Seattle's neighborhoods and communities, highlighting the impacts of the growth of our real estate market.

Forest City redevelops Pier 70 San Francisco into an urban utopia of artists, makers and innovation. Phase 1 redefined the community engagement process and created a national model of how to inclusively revitalize…

Following the 2008 financial crisis, the national developer takes on exciting new innovations in real estate to evolve into the next generation of place-makers.

FIX builds a custom geospatial data base, layering data from US Census, King County Assessor, and City of Seattle to guide development goals and identify new market opportunities.

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The Port of San Francisco awards Forest City redevelopment rights to 28-acres of historic Pier 70. Forest City will turn the defunct shipyard into a new mixed-use innovation campus, beginning with interim adaptive reuse…

Mayor Newsom creates the future of ecological infrastructure, pressing 80 public and private stakeholders to define a district-wide sustainability plan.

Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, in collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Institute, to create 500 units of affordable housing in downtown Dallas with the hopes of inspiring a national model of net-zero…

The country's largest master-planned community developer, Newland Communities, creates a new sales strategy that flips the industry's community development strategy on its head.

Global mining company Rio Tinto was to spend $12 billion USD opening a new iron ore mine in the western African country, Guinea. They hired IDEO to help design systems to move the ore 800 km to the coast and another 12…

FIX is a systems design company founded in 2008 to solve complex urban challenges with place-based solutions. How may we help you?