Andrew Fine and Laura Wood Habr began collaborating on their vision to reinvigorate this once historic and now elapsed area.

In 2011, Andrew Fine, president of The Runnymede Corporation, and Laura Wood Habr, co-owner of Croc’s 19th Street Bistro, began collaborating on their vision to reinvigorate this once historic and now elapsed area. They began to organize with city staff and council members, local artists, and businesses. Both having businesses in this district and a shared passion for undertaking philanthropic projects, they created an organization to help guide the District to work with the City and a revolving loan program to assist budding creatives moving into the District.