Village 5 & Housing Core
Clustered studios and 1–2 BR units (~40–80) with shared greens, ADA design, and direct access to services.
Flagship Project
St. Croix Resilience Campus — a 40–50 acre engine for stability.
The campus is a purpose-built community on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It pairs dignified housing, trauma-informed services, workforce pathways, and its own infrastructure so veterans and their families can move from instability to long-term resilience.
Project snapshot
- 40–50 acre master plan: villages, villas, CRC, trades hub, ag zone.
- Target 80–150 units across veteran housing, family villas, and short-stay pods.
- On-site microgrid, water, and food systems keep operations online.
- Designed as a scalable template for future regions — no one left behind twice.
Five pillars guide every build decision
- Humanitarian impact: housing, counseling, and peer services for veterans and families.
- Local workforce development: trades training tied directly to campus operations and island demand.
- Scalable, replicable model: villages, microgrids, and programs that can be cloned elsewhere.
- Integrated economic self-sufficiency: on-site power, water, food, and revenue components.
- Operational resilience: the campus doubles as a resilience hub during storms and disruptions.
Why a resilience campus?
- Services work better when they’re co-located. Veterans shouldn’t have to navigate fragmented systems. Housing, care, training, and community operate more effectively when designed as one ecosystem.
- Infrastructure is stability. On-site power, water, food, and communications reduce dependency on fragile external systems—especially during disasters or disruptions.
- Permanent beats temporary. Short-term programs cycle people through services. A campus creates long-term footing, predictable operations, and generational impact.
- Economic activity sustains the mission. Workforce training, campus operations, and revenue components reduce reliance on donations alone and support long-term viability.
- What works once should work again. The campus is designed as a replicable template—adaptable to other regions without reinventing the system each time.
Key components
Family Villas & Retreat Pods
10–25 villas plus short-stay pods for families, donors, visiting clinicians, and “reset” programs.
Community Resilience Center
Training classrooms, hot desks, counseling suites, and an EOC-style operations hub for island-wide coordination.
Trades Barn & Vocational Hub
8–15k sq ft workshop for solar, carpentry, fabrication, IT, and construction training pipelines.
Microgrid & Water Systems
1–3 MW solar target, multi-MWh batteries, backup gensets, rain catchment, and optional desalination.
Agriculture & Light Manufacturing
Food plots, greenhouses, aquaponics, and candle-making/light manufacturing nodes for veteran employment.
Community Market & Event Center
A campus café/market, multi-use event venue, and donor residencies to keep the campus woven into local life.
Business Incubator & Co-work
20–40 desks, mentoring, and procurement support for veteran-led ventures and partner nonprofits.
Resilience infrastructure
The campus is designed to operate as a backbone of stability even when the grid or supply chain is stressed.
- Smart microgrid prioritizes housing, CRC, health, and water loads.
- Battery storage keeps critical services online for multi-hour outages.
- Catchment, storage, and optional desalination secure potable water.
- On-prem network core (“The Vault”) hardens communications and data.
- Emergency staging yard + logistics support for partner response teams.
Modeled impact
~$128M multi-phase build cost; 120–250 veterans housed annually; 250–500 program participants; and dozens of on-campus jobs—clearly labeled as modeled targets, not guarantees.
Impact will be tracked using a published measurement framework covering housing stability, program completion, workforce pathways, and infrastructure resilience. Each phase is designed to operate independently, with validation milestones required before expansion. Budgets, assumptions, and progress will be updated transparently so supporters can see how decisions evolve as the campus comes online.
Programs & services anchored on campus
- Housing navigation & stability: guided path from crisis into homes on-campus or nearby.
- Trauma-informed counseling & peer support: clinicians, telehealth pods, and peer circles.
- Vocational labs & trades training: solar, carpentry, agtech, IT, and light manufacturing.
- Business incubation & co-working: venture mentoring and job pipelines.
- Health, wellness, & community integration: agriculture, events, and family-centered routines.
- Crisis & disaster support: the campus can serve as a resilience node during storms.
Coalition mindset
The campus operates as a white-labeled partner network. PatriotChat keeps agencies in sync; the physical campus gives them infrastructure to plug into.
- Unified intake: shared referrals and warm handoffs reduce drop-off.
- Shared playbooks: vetted workflows keep care consistent across providers.
- Capacity visibility: partner availability and follow-ups stay transparent.
- Accountability: outcome reporting stays transparent for partners and donors.
We can align your team to a shared service map, reporting cadence, and joint response playbook.
Opportunities for donors & partners
- Naming opportunities & endowed spaces — CRC, trades barn, villas, scholarships.
- Impact-aligned investments in energy, hospitality, or revenue components.
- Corporate workforce pipelines, pilot deployments, and technology showcases.
- On-campus retreats, leadership intensives, and “serve & learn” programs.
- Coalition membership and advisory roles for agencies and institutions.
Learn more
Visit stxvets.org for phase maps, engineering briefs, and capital stack details. For private briefings, investors and agencies can reach our team.
- Phase maps: land plan, villages, and infrastructure sequencing.
- Engineering briefs: microgrid, water, and resilience systems.
- Capital stack: funding phases, partner roles, and milestones.
- Site visits: schedule walkthroughs and briefings.