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5/14 Memorial & Healing Center
Our Role: Construction Community Engagement & Cultural Sensitivity Training
- Location
- Jefferson Avenue, East Buffalo
- Status
- Active Project
- Our role
- Construction Community Engagement & Cultural Sensitivity Training
The 5/14 Memorial & Healing Center will honor the ten people killed in the May 14, 2022 attack on Jefferson Avenue. MWBE Constructors is part of the project’s construction management team, leading construction community engagement and cultural sensitivity training during preconstruction.
Our work prepares local contractors to compete for work on the project, connects residents to the opportunities it creates, and helps everyone working on the site understand the community and the history the memorial carries. Engagement follows a simple approach: listen, learn, then create, so small contractors get useful information instead of more paperwork.
Contractors submit their business information through the project’s digital engagement platform, part of our Inclusive Procurement Strategy & Digital Engagement service. We use what they submit to target readiness support and in our weekly engagement reporting.
What we provide
- Construction community engagement
- Cultural sensitivity training
- Contractor readiness workshops, in collaboration with BCC
- MWBE certification intensives
- Built From the Block™ workforce engagement
- Digital engagement platform for contractor submissions
- Weekly engagement reporting
Let's work together.
Tell us what you need. We'll follow up to talk through scope.