About Chosen Grounds Inc
The Company
Chosen Grounds Inc is a minority owned business and is a national consulting service whose purpose is to assist historic sites, whether of buildings or land, in re-imagining or repurposing and preserving their space for the civic or communal good. We do this through four main categories: Consulting services, grant writing, the research and writing of the history of the grounds and finally archival consulting assistance for clients.
Our Services
We are historians whose love for the built environment has inspired us to try and capture the lived history of places before they and those who used the space are gone forever, along with their stories.
Chosen Grounds Inc Advantages
Chosen Grounds has multiple advantages over other organizations doing similar work in this field.
- Doctorate-level historians with specialties that directly assist in understanding the historical impact of sacred sites on a community and how to write about these entities to convey the importance of their value to their respective communities.
- Backgrounds of working with multiple faiths and non-faith entities without promoting one over another.
- Understanding of minority religious experiences in the United States with empathy for the differences in these groups’ experiences.
- 12 years of real estate appraisal experience working with residential and commercial valuation and inspection.
- An accumulative expertise of over 50 years in history teaching and experience in publications and presentations of historical topics.
- Experience in conducting consultations with congregations in transitioning and presenting about transitions to urban planners, clergy, and Judicatory.
- Experiences in conducting feasibility studies and other studies to assist sacred places in connecting with community stakeholders.