ACLT owns transformative properties, connects entrepreneurs to real estate, and invests in our neighborhood commercial corridors.
ACLT’s real estate work and partnerships have resulted in neighborhood assets like a new Special Olympics Statewide Training Facility, a Credit Union 1 (the first financial institution in the Mountain View neighborhood in over 20 years), a non-profit hub at the Mountain View Service Center, and 22 affordable residential units directly adjacent to the Mountain View Community Center. Check out the properties we’ve transformed over the last 15 years!
Properties
Credit Union 1
After purchasing this former gas station that was sitting empty in the heart of Mountain View, ACLT worked to decontaminate the site and began a partnership with Credit Union 1 to open a branch on Mountain View Dr. In 2010, the Mountain View branch of Credit Union 1 opened and became the first financial institution in the neighborhood in over 20 years. The branch is now one of the busiest and most successful branches in the city.
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Special Olympics
After purchasing two prominent lots on Mountain View Dr. and activating the space short-term with local artists, ACLT partnered with Special Olympics of Alaska to build and open their world class Special Olympics Statewide Training Facility, now home to over 20,000 square feet of ultra-modern space for statewide events, athlete and coaches trainings, volunteers, and staff headquarters.
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West Berlin
ACLT purchased this building and renovated it into a built out restaurant space, working with Cook Inlet Tribal Council’s Chanylut program to operate a restaurant in the space. When the program came to a close and the space became available again, ACLT partnered with Set Up Shop client Bill Ho’opai to open the business of his dreams on-site: Anchorage’s first German restaurant, West Berlin.
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Mountain View Service Center
In 2004, ACLT purchased an abandoned Sadler’s Warehouse, which became our first building redeveloped, and now a centerpiece of our work in the Mountain View neighborhood. In 2007, the Mountain View Service Center opened, now housing seven non-profit organizations, including Camp Fire Alaska, the Foraker Group, Programs for Infants & Children, the Alaska State Council on the Arts, RurAL CAP, and AlaskaWorks Construction Academy.
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Grow North Farm
What was once an abandoned RV park in the heart of Mountain View’s commercial corridor is now an urban farm providing opportunity to neighborhood entrepreneurs.
ACLT purchased the lot in 2008 and spent years demolishing old structures and redeveloping the space. Beginning in 2016, we ran the Mountain View Farmers’ Market on-site for three years with great success, but wanted to activate the space long-term and year-round. ACLT partnered with Catholic Social Services to build Grow North Farm, opening in 2019 for its first season of operations.
Grow North Farm is a 28,000 square foot urban farm in the heart of Mountain View that is an incubator space for local food and emerging entrepreneurs. Find out more here!
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Price St Building
Formerly a run-down pawn shop, this building was acquired by ACLT in 2011, and in 2012 the east side of the building became studio spaces for Alaska’s premier Alaska Native and American Indian artists, including Alvin Amason, Perry Eaton, Linda Infante Lyons, and Graham Dane. The west side of the building has now become ACLT’s new headquarters, including a Set Up Shop training facility.
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Gardens at Bragaw
This site was a once densely populated housing complex that was torn down to make way for the Glenn Highway Bragaw Interchange. In 2012, ACLT negotiated with the Municipality of Anchorage to open and operate the space as a community garden for the Mountain View neighborhood. ACLT spent four years making capital improvements and beautifying the space, all while working with residents to operate the community garden space. In 2016, we handed the property back to the Municipality for long-term management.
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Ch’anikna Commons
Once a site of decades of negative use and blight, this building is now premier public housing in the heart of the Mountain View neighborhood. ACLT partnered with Cook Inlet Housing Authority and the Rasmuson Foundation to co-invest in the space and turn it into an asset for the neighborhood, opening its 21 units in fall of 2019. Part of a larger block-by-block approach, Ch’anikna Commons has in turn spurred additional investment in the Mountain View Community Center and the William B. Lyons Park across the street, ensuring Mountain View families have a positive space to live and recreate.
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