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Forming Formed: 2009
Grank
st louis, Missouri,
United States
 Grank is a prospective self-reliance, sustainability, and community center located in St. Louis' southern suburbs. Our mission is to encourage a more harmonious, sustainable, suburban existence, promoting community demystification and empowerment through a positive example of self-reliance. We exist to preserve an affordable setting for these ideals to flourish.
It is in the suburbs that one confronts the epicenter of resource misallocation and subsequent over-consumption. Grank believes that with an emphasis on self-reliance techniques, a modicum of community-based reorganization would go a long way in stabilizing suburban existence—preserving (and improving) the useful infrastructure there, and actually bettering the quality of life by encouraging a multi-disciplinary populace and injecting a greater sense of purpose.
Grank seeks to engage and empower the community by hosting social functions and workshops, facilitating consensus building and resource sharing, and maintaining a general open-door policy. There are no up-front costs for residency here. Instead, housing is provided by the land trust, which holds the land in exchange for the tenants carrying out uplifting, paradigm-shifting programs in pursuit of Grank's mission. The most important criteria for potential tenants is imagination enough to envision a more sustainable way of life, sufficient work ethic to see it through, and courage enough to live it.
By bringing models of intentional living into the suburban consciousness, we can help to preempt economic hardship; discourage destabilizing shifts in population, investment, and infrastructure; and fortify future security. The ultimate goal is for Grank to become a replicable model for suburban restructuring and responsible community development everywhere.
  Status: on the brink of greatness
Contact:
Sean Nitchmann
3374 Dekamay Dr
St Louis, Missouri 63125 United States
Phone: 314-892-5540
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Last Updated:12/13/2008
 
Visitors Accepted
Visitor Process: Please send us an email. We try to keep a space open for travelers, potential future tenants or contributors, and other guests.
Statement of Housing Non-discrimination:
No Answer Provided
Population
Non-member Residents:
(visitors will always be welcome)
Open to new members:
Yes
Government
Decision Making:
Other
Identified Leader:
No
Leadership Core Group:
No
Labor and Money
Financial Style:
Other
Open to Members with Pre-existing Debt:
Yes
Labor Contribution:
Expected
(This is one of the primary functions of tenants.)
Join Fee:
No
(, but please be aware that tenants are responsible for coming up with project funds.)
Regular Fees:
No
(, but if they don't they will probably have to come up with a way to raise funds otherwise.)
Land and Buildings
Suburban
Area:
0.25 acres (0.1 hectares)
Land Owned By:
Independent land trust (not controlled by the community)
Number of Residences:
1
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
(none yet)
Share Community Meals:
(you decide)
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
Diet is up to each individual
Dietary Practice:
Omnivorous
Alcohol Use:
(you choose)
Tobacco Use:
Seldom used
(not indoors)
Social Factors
Common Spiritual Practices:
No
Educational Style(s):
(you choose)
 
 


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