RIGHT
HERE
Empty neighborhood pharmacy-style building with an open parking lot

The building is empty.
The community isn’t.

Across our neighborhoods, buildings that once served thousands of people sit vacant. At the same time, people living around them have needs — and time, skills, knowledge, experience and resources that aren’t being shared.

What if we brought those things together?

EXPLORE THE IDEA

Rite Aid is one example.

~2,000Rite Aid pharmacies before bankruptcy.
Nearly 600Stores closed during earlier restructuring.
~1,250Stores remaining entering the 2025 bankruptcy process.

Historical context, not a count of vacant buildings. Former locations have had different outcomes, including closure, sale, lease transfer and repurposing. Figures are approximate and subject to final verification.

But Rite Aid isn’t the story. It’s evidence of a much larger opportunity.

Pharmacies. Grocery stores. Banks. Schools. Retail stores. Community buildings. We see space waiting for purpose.

What if an empty building became a place where a community helped itself?

CHILDCARE

An unused storefront becomes a place for children to learn, play and be cared for.

WORK

Host job fairs, interviews, résumé assistance and workforce training.

SHARE & REPAIR

Tools are borrowed. Bikes get fixed. Things are repaired instead of replaced.

FOOD & CONNECTION

Neighbors share food, cook together and gather around the same table.

CREATE

Artists, musicians, makers and children have somewhere to create.

That’s RIGHT HERE.

RIGHT HERE transforms underused neighborhood spaces into places where communities connect what they have with what they need.

I HAVE

  • Time
  • Skills
  • Knowledge
  • Things
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Space
  • Opportunity
  • A desire to help

I NEED

  • A hand
  • Childcare
  • A job
  • A tool
  • Advice
  • A skill
  • Food
  • Connection
  • An opportunity

Give when you can. Receive when you need. Everyone belongs.

You don’t have to give to receive. You don’t need money to have something valuable to contribute. Sometimes we help. Sometimes we need help. Over a lifetime, most of us do both.

SEE WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT HERE