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    Database of Community Benefits Frameworks Across the US

    This database includes information pertaining to different types of publicly available community benefits frameworks, including community benefits agreements (CBAs), host community agreements (HCAs), project workforce agreements (PWAs) and community benefit plans (CBPs), amongst others. They can be an important tool to ensure that tangible benefits from development projects are felt locally, enable communities to create or fund programs that matter to them, and help developers develop local relationships and earn community acceptance of a project. This database, therefore, aims to provide information that would be useful to community organizers, policymakers, lawyers, researchers, developers, and other individuals interested in better understanding how agreements between developers and local communities are structured to provide benefits to a local community as part of the development of a specific project.

    Compiled by the World Resources Institute and Data for Progress, this database will regularly be updated as more community benefit frameworks are reviewed and analyzed. If you have access to community benefit frameworks not reflected in this database, please reach out to us here.

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    Hollywood and Vine
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: Gatehouse Hollywood Development LP seeks to construct a mixed-use development in Los Angeles, California.
    Parties to framework: Gatehouse Hollywood Development, LP; Hollywood Interfaith Sponsoring Committee (HISC); Yucca Residents’ Group (YRG)
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2004
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Health and safety
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Make all reasonable efforts to ensure that at least 70% of the jobs will be living wage jobs, with an exemption for small businesses (p. 3)
    – Implement a First Source Hiring Policy to facilitate the employment of targeted applicants including prioritizing individuals displaced by the project, low-income individuals within one mile of the site, and low-income individuals from particular census tracts in the city (p. 6)
    – Provide $50,000 to the Workforce and Economic Development Department of the California Labor Federation to fund job training, and shall provide $25,000 to the Los Angeles Metro Alliance’s HealthCare Career Ladder Training Program (p. 7)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Provide $15,000 to fund a health care access outreach program (p. 8)
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    Hunters Point Shipyard
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: Lennar Communities Inc and Lennar BVHP LLC seek to redevelop a shipyard in San Francisco, California.
    Parties to framework: Lennar Communities, Inc; Lennar BVHP, LLC; San Francisco Labor Council; The San Francisco Organizing Project; San Francisco ACORN (local chapter of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2008
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Contribute $8.5 million to the Workforce Development Fund to be used for programs designed to create a gateway for career development for residents of District 10 (p. 11)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – At least 31.86% of housing units in the project will be designated affordable housing (p. 7)
    – Contribute $27.3 million to the Community First Housing Fund to assist qualifying residents in the purchase of market-rate units (p. 8)
    Ensure that certain of affordable housing units are designated as senior and disabled housing (p. 9)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Provide $75,000 annually for the operation of the Implementation Committee (p. 14)
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    Kingsbridge Armory
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Plan
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: Kingsbridge National Ice Center seeks to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, New York.
    Parties to framework:
    State: New York
    Year Signed: 2013
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Education:
    – Make an effort, in good faith, where economically feasible to establish a sports management curriculum and program in partnership with local colleges (p. 9)
    – Provide students and families of the Bronx public schools priority access to the project and the ice rinks at discount rates, and developers will provide funding to develop an outreach program to connect with Bronx public schools (p. 20)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Make an effort, in good faith, where economically feasible to provide technical assistance to small local businesses and set up a mentoring program for local businesses (p. 7)
    – Pay all of employees a Living Wage as defined in the agreement (p. 8)
    – Engage hiring agencies to identify and train employees from the Bronx and NYC, with preference to local residents (p. 9)
    – Employ at least 51% of its employees from the Targeted Job Applicants (p. 10)
    – Make an effort, in good faith, to ensure at least 25% of employees are from a target population and shall award 25% of funds spent on employees to minority- and women-owned businesses located in the Bronx (p. 11)
    – Prioritize the awarding of procurement contracts to local businesses, especially those complying with green practices, and make an effort, in good faith, that at least 51%, but no less than 25%, of total procurement come from local and minority- and women-owned businesses (p. 17)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Provide free parking for electric vehicles and provide employees with discounts on public transportation (p. 14)
    – Make an effort, in good faith to create a pedestrian hardscape or vegetated space on the ground and/or roof to ensure that 20% of the project is undeveloped and accessible to the public (p. 15)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Work with community advisory council to promote awareness and fundraise for asthma, asthma-causing air pollutants, and potential mitigating factors for asthma (p. 14)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – At minimum, developer will achieve LEED Silver for major renovation building standard, however it will make best efforts to achieve LEED Gold Status (p. 13)
    – Take various actions to maintain and improve the environmental sustainability of the project (p. 14, 15, 16)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Contribute $8 million in funds or in-kind services to be used for developing and building out a community space; creating a renewable energy scholarship fund; developing a Small Business Incubator; and establishing a local business grant program, in addition to other capital improvements as seen fit by the Community Advisory Council (p. 5)
    – Developer shall provide $1 million of in-kind services per year, an amount that will increase annually (p. 6)
    – Developer shall pay 1% of annual gross ice rink rental revenue up to $25 million plus 2% of annual gross ice rink rental revenue exceeding $25 million to the Coalition (p. 6-7)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Provide free internet access throughout the project to visitors and small local businesses located therein (p. 7)
    – Provide a sufficient number of reusable water bottles at nominal cost and water filling stations to visitors to the Project (p. 13)
    – Provide employees discounts on public transit and promote public transit to project (p. 14)
    – Provide the Community Advisory Council with reasonable access to free advertising space on signage to meet the reasonable, good faith requests, where economically feasible (p. 17)
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    Lake County et al. and Veolia ES Zion Landfill Inc.
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Waste/Landfill
    Project Summary: Veolia ES Zion Landfill, Inc. Seeks to expand its landfill in Zion, Illinois.
    Parties to framework: Veolia ES Zion Landfill, Inc.; Lake County, Illinois; Solid Waste Agency of Lake County, Illinois (Agency)
    State: Illinois
    Year Signed: 2010
    Benefits included:
    • Environmental and climate
    • Financial support
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Environmental audit once per year to verify compliance with environmental laws/regulations and another two per year by the county (p. 7)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay Lake County host benefit fee of $1.41 for each ton of solid waste permanently disposed of in the existing landfill and the landfill expansion, paid monthly and increasing yearly by 2.5% (p. 3-4)
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    Lakeshore Recycling Systems
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Waste/Landfill
    Project Summary: Lakeshore Recycling Systems LLC seeks to construct and operate a waste transfer station in Moline, Illinois.
    Parties to framework: City of Moline; Lakeshore Recycling Systems, LLC
    State: Illinois
    Year Signed: 2023
    Benefits included:
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – All access drives should be paved and a misting system should be used to control dust and odors from the site (p. 11)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay to the City a fee of $2.54 per ton on all waste subject to the fee which will be adjusted on an annual basis from one year after the inception of payment (p. 8)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Provide a designated area at the Transfer Station Facility for use by residents of the City of Moline to drop off recyclable materials at no cost, and will also establish a second recycling site (p. 9)
    – Once per year on a mutually agreeable date, the company will offer the Transfer Station Facility at no cost as a host site for a household hazardous waste collection event (p. 9)
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