Mission Waterfront Revitalization Strategy & Master Planning

Catalyzing 70 Development Sites: Turning Complex Stalled Governance into Aligned, Accelerated Shovel Ready Action for  Financial Sustainability

Context

Location: Hope, BC to Whistler, BC

Scale: 70 properties across 13 municipalities

Potential Impact:
Activation of underutilized church lands for community services, long-term financial sustainability, and mixed-income housing delivery that meets community needs.

Stakeholder Environment:

  • Diocesan leadership

  • Diocesan Council

  • 3 Standing Committees

  • 70 Parishes

  • Congregations

What They Needed

The Diocese required:

✅ A comprehensive, portfolio-wide Diocesan Real Estate Strategy with clear priorities

✅ Alignment of Diocesan leadership, Council & Committees around the Real Estate Strategy

✅ Clear assessment criteria to identify priority sites

✅ Site-specific development concepts tied to mission and feasibility

✅ A pathway for clear execution at Diocese level and for individual project delivery at Parish level

✅ Confidence to engage all stakeholders and advance projects

The opportunity was massive — but no one knew how to move it forward.


Why This Matters

If your organization holds property but is unsure how to activate it for mission and impact, and you face:

❌ Unclear property priorities

❌ Tension between mission and market objectives

❌ No framework to advance projects with confidence

❌ Limited capacity for feasibility or funding strategy

Purpose Driven Development applies a proven framework that moves landowners from stuck → strategic → shovel-ready, aligning financial sustainability with community impact.

The Challenge

For decades, the Diocese faced:

  • Limited property information across the portfolio of assets

  • Unclear development readiness or financial viability from individual parishes

  • Limited capacity to assess and prioritize opportunities

  • Fragmented development partnerships advanced at the parish level, resulting significant cost and risk from partnership challenges

  • A lack of clarity on execution to move from ideas to implementation

The Diocese held significant land assets with social potential — but lacked a unified framework to unlock them strategically.

The Results

✅ Comprehensive Real Estate Strategy setting out a clear vision, priorities, and strategy for the future of the portfolio

✅ Portfolio Analysis identifying priority sites for redevelopment & decision-making clarity through custom assessment framework

✅ Clear and well-defined Implementation Roadmap for execution

✅ Established foundation for mission-driven housing and community partnerships across the region

✅ Three priority sites advanced to feasibility stage

✅ Three feasibility studies completed with demonstrated financial viability and advancing with full support

✅ Two projects now proceeding into Development phase

“Purpose Driven really got our vision and needs pretty much right after the first meeting that we had. When Purpose Driven started with values that cemented it, that sealed the deal. We were looking for a partner that had an understanding of our financial situation and could identify funding partners... Purpose Driven had a clear pathway for project delivery at every stage of development.”

— Tellison Glover, Director for Mission & Ministry Development,

Anglican Diocese of New Westminster

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