The Hartland Group completed economic development consulting work for the Take Charge committee of the Derby Line Development Corporation in early 2006. The Group developed recommendations and strategies for economic redevelopment of the historic downtown neighborhood, with a focus on opportunities for increased tourism, available grant funding to pay for improvements, and the continued growth of the arts.

Founded in 1982, the Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY has long been one of the country’s most successful examples of inner-city social entrepreneurship. The Hartland Group’s partners worked on the development of a new bakery building that was designed by renowned architect and artist Maya Lin, best known for planning the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Production in the new plant began in June, 2004. The Greyston Bakery produces brownie chips for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, as well as fine desserts sold by gourmet restaurants, hotels and specialty stores. As a result of the new capacity, the bakery will produce ingredients for Haagen-Dazs in early 2005.

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This five-story beaux-arts style building was once a civic gem, featuring an inspired portico, a grand 5,000 square foot ballroom, and an elegant basement restaurant partially illuminated during the day by an overhead glass sidewalk. But the building declined with the surrounding neighborhood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s and was closed due to fire in 1997. In late 2001, after an $8 million historically sensitive renovation, the building reopened with the upper floors dedicated to housing for low-income artists and the ballroom operating as a non-profit community managed performing arts center and facility for special events.

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An entire block of 11 mid and late 19th century townhouses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, had degenerated over more than a century into badly maintained rooming houses with more than 75 illegally subdivided rooms. These once gracious homes were completely gutted and restored to their original high standard of construction.

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These townhouses were entirely newly constructed on the site of a stable in Halifax, dating back to the early 18th century. The project was a creative model of urban infill.

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This award-winning, $10,300,000 renovation of a former Catholic monastery was completed in December 1997. The facility now houses 35 formerly homeless individuals with HIV/AIDS, and is the site for Westchester’s only AIDS Adult Day Health Care Program.

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After the successful creation of the bakery, Greyston’s next effort was to attempt to address Yonkers’ burgeoning homeless problem of the early 1980s. This initiative took shape as the rehabilitation of three abandoned buildings on Warburton Avenue near the heart of Yonkers’ historic downtown.

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This $4,165,000 historic renovation of an 1800s waterfront warehouse was Greyston’s first non-Yonkers development.

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Charles G. Lief was responsible for the restoration of three 180 year-old buildings in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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In 2002 Greyston completed a $3,250,000 renovation of these two, adjoined four story buildings. Formerly two of the most troubled and poorly-maintained buildings in Yonkers, Greyston, in collaboration with the Yonkers Police and Sanitation Departments, stabilized the buildings with concentrated property management and then embarked on an ambitious tenant-in-place renovation. These 40 units of permanent housing are for working and formerly homeless families.