Stephen Jones of Hive Industries to present a Social Impact Project in Council District 9.
Chauncey Billups. So it's going to be an incredible time, and I just wanted to share that because it's been a long time coming. All right. Presentations tonight, we have a presentation from Stephen Jones of The Hive Industries to present a social impact project out in Council District nine. So. All right. Go right ahead, Stephen. Well, first off. Thanks, Councilman Brooks, for inviting us. My name is Steven Jones as my partner Tim Arquilla. And we're here representing Hive Industries. This is a nonprofit event, space and resource center that we've developed over the last four years. Now finding it's home at 725 West 39th and the Fox. Fox, what is it, Fox Island near here. But so our concept is based off social capitalism. We think social capitalism is a real thing. And we've created an ecosystem where every entertainment dollar that comes into our building, a portion of that goes to supporting nonprofits and community organizations. So as well as artists and musicians. So as a five points Denver native, a product of Denver public schools. The. Sorry my heart is pounding. First time public speaking exactly. A product of Denver. Denver School of the Arts. You know, we wanted to create an ecosystem and a organization that supported artists and young community organizations. So that's what the hive industry is. The event center is called the Fox Street Compound. We offer nonprofit consulting program, Incubation Resource Exchange, all in this four acre event field, the old power rental building. So but one of the wonderful things that we've created is called Give Back Tickets that sits on top of our nonprofit resource space. It's a social impact platform. It sells tickets, but just like it says, give back tickets, a portion of those service fees go to community benefactors, which is really cool because, you know, obviously everybody pays service fees with tickets, but how can we yeah, how can we help organizations? See what else we got here. We have office space, so currently we house five nonprofits, all very young nonprofits. One is Plant the Seed, a project that we'll be producing this summer is the ugly food farmer's market at our event center. So every Wednesday we'll have a farmer's market of basically that ugly food, food that doesn't make it to the store shelves of King Soopers and everybody else. So uptake I think growers organic plant the seed and the factory compound. We'll be providing that service within our community, servicing the Swansea Globeville district and the Sunnyside area there. We also have a community garden space up on 38th and Sheridan that we've had for about four years and have fostered many great programs with, you know, developing youth and and growing. So we're just here to share our vision and say hello, basically. Great. And see what can you show us at one site that shows how many thousands of people come to this site? Yeah. So our biggest fundraiser brings 25,000 people to the site over a two day period. It's called the Denver Taco Festival and. Tacos, right? Yeah. Yeah. And so that event itself started in the Reno district and has moved from the 32nd and Larimer block over to this area. And over the four years that it's been running, we've raised over $300,000 for nonprofit organizations, and we have a handful of other events coming to great. And I wanted you know, this council sees many rezonings in this Fox Island area, but few people really know what's actually going on in the existing infrastructure and how that existing infrastructure is being used. And so I thought it was important that folks here on council in the city understands that there are folks who are making the existing infrastructure work for the community, for folks who are there right now. So that's great. Well, thanks so much. Well, thank you again. I appreciate it. All right. All right. Madam Secretary, do you have any communications.