Live/work spaces designed to
turn residence into opportunity.
The residential buildings are designed as flexible live/work environments for artisans, makers, creatives, entrepreneurs, and small-business owners. Instead of separating housing from economic activity, each residence is intended to support both everyday life and the work of building a business.
ANKARA VILLAGE & AFRODZIAK MARKETPLACE
Flexible live/work residences
Layouts can function as smaller micro-units or full townhouse-style live/work residences,
depending on each tenant's residential, studio, and business needs.
Built for creation and enterprise
Residents can design, make, develop products, manage businesses, meet with clients, collaborate, and operate professional studios within the community.
Connected to the marketplace + e-commerce
The model gives residents a pathway to sell products and services through the AfroDziak Marketplace and digital commerce platform, connecting local enterprise to a broader customer base
01
Live + Work
Flexible homes designed around the way makers, creatives, founders, and modern workers actually live.
02
Build + Sell
A physical marketplace and digital commerce
platform that help small businesses reach
more customers.
03
Learn + Exchange
Programming that connects skills, stories, ideas,
and business relationships across generations and geographies.
04
Live Sustainably
Energy efficiency, clean energy, green infrastructure, responsible water use, gardens, and resilient design.
05
Connect Globally
A commercial and cultural bridge linking African American communities with the broader
Diaspora and African continent.
OUR FIRST HOME
Highland Park is not a backdrop. It is part of the strategy.
The first Ankara Village & AfroDziak Marketplace is planned for Hamilton Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan-an opportunity to turn underused land into a hub for innovation, enterprise, sustainable living, and cultural exchange.
The model is intended to show how development in historically underserved communities can be designed around economic participation-not simply occupancy. Residents can live, work, create, collaborate, sell products and services, and connect to a larger commercial network.
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Flexible live/work unit configurations
16051
Hamilton Avenue,
Highland Park
1 vision
Economic development +
sustainability + culturalexchange
18
Planned parking
OUR FIRST HOME
There are many ways to be part of
AfroDziak.
We are building a network around the project—not just a building. That means room for capital partners, community organizations, educators, brands,entrepreneurs, designers, technology partners, cultural institutions, and neighbors.