Neighbour Development, Inc.

What Neighbour Development, Inc. does

NEIGHBR (Neighbour Development, Inc.) is a privately held, for-profit social infrastructure firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 2023 by Corey M. Johnson, a Georgia Tech-trained civil engineer with prior infrastructure experience at GDOT and AECOM. The company is positioned as a "world-building organization" focused on improving the structural fabric on which society is built, with declared service verticals spanning housing, community centers, childcare, transportation, energy, and utility networks. Its single demonstrated project to date is the atl kula Wellness Studio in Atlantic Station, a 1,700-square-foot biophilic-designed facility developed over 2020–2023 and converted from storage into a multi-room wellness space with showers and an indoor koi pond.

NEIGHBR offers three integrated service lines: full-lifecycle project consulting (design through operations), direct real estate development, and social impact investing. No proprietary technology platforms, software products, APIs, patents, or AI/ML capabilities are disclosed in the source material. The firm's tangible asset base is anchored by the atl kula Wellness Studio, and its intellectual outputs are limited to a company website (neighborind.com), a downloadable PDF portfolio, and YouTube video content showcasing project aesthetics. No data assets, training pipelines, or technical infrastructure are referenced. Marketing is direct-to-enterprise with no disclosed channel partners.

The business model blends fee-based consulting, direct development ownership acquired via investment, and impact-aligned capital deployment. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and the go-to-market motion appears to be direct enterprise and community engagement rather than via channel or self-serve. No customer logos, named clients, or active contracts are disclosed. The firm operates with a 1–10 person team led by CEO Corey M. Johnson and CFO Kiara G. Johnson (CBAP-certified, with prior finance leadership at Procter & Gamble and Georgia Pacific). No external funding rounds with attributable source data are recorded.

Name

Neighbour Development, Inc.

Legal name

Neighbour Development, Inc.

Website

https://neighborind.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Neighbour Development (NEIGHBR) is an Atlanta-based social infrastructure firm offering project consulting, real estate development, and impact investing across housing, community centers, childcare, transportation, energy, and utility networks for enterprise and community clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Infrastructure Consulting

NAICS

Land Subdivision (2372), Land Subdivision (23721)

SIC

Land Subdividers & Developers (No Cemeteries) (6552), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Development & Neighborhood Revitalization (CDBG, Place-Based Initiatives) (BPAIANAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Infrastructure, Housing & Community Development (BPAGABAL), Residential Affordable Housing Development & Construction (IMAFABAI)

Keywords

• Social infrastructure consulting
• Real estate development
• Community development services
• Social impact investing
• Project consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Neighbour Development, Inc. (DBA: NEIGHBR) provides social infrastructure project consulting, development services, and social impact investing focused on built environments such as housing, community centers, childcare facilities, transportation, and energy/utility networks. The firm supports end-to-end development of community-oriented real estate and infrastructure assets, including physical projects like the atl kula Wellness Studio in Atlanta's Atlantic Station.

Product overview

NEIGHBR is a social infrastructure organization offering project consulting, development services, and social impact investing. Their core services encompass consulting for the full project lifecycle from design to operations, focusing on housing, community centers, childcare, transportation, energy, and utility networks. Their most recent development project is the atl kula Wellness Studio, which represents their approach to transforming spaces to improve everyday human experience.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Transformed 1,700-square-foot storage space into full-service wellness studio with multiple studio rooms, showers, and indoor koi pond

Segments1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Jonathan Rose Companies: Established impact-driven real estate developer and consulting firm focused on affordable housing, community development, and sustainable placemaking. Comparable to NEIGHBR as a mission-aligned, vertically integrated social-infrastructure developer, but at significantly greater scale and geographic reach.
• Enterprise Community Partners: National nonprofit that combines advisory, development, and impact investing for affordable housing and community development. Comparable to NEIGHBR's consulting + development + impact investing model, but operates as a large established institution with national scope.
• RCLCO (RCLCO Fund Advisors): Real estate advisory and consulting firm offering feasibility, planning, and impact strategy for large-scale community and mixed-use developments. Comparable to NEIGHBR on the consulting/strategy side of social infrastructure, though operating at much larger scale.
• LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation): Major CDFI and community development organization providing capital, consulting, and development services for housing and neighborhood revitalization. Comparable to NEIGHBR's blended consulting + impact investing model, though operating nationally with a multi-billion-dollar balance sheet.
• Stantec (Community Development practice): Global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm with a dedicated community development practice spanning housing, transit-oriented development, and civic infrastructure. Comparable to NEIGHBR on consulting scope, though at vastly greater scale and breadth.

Direct peers

• HR&A Advisors: Real estate and economic development consulting firm advising public and private sector clients on placemaking, infrastructure, and community development strategy. Closely comparable to NEIGHBR's social-infrastructure consulting practice serving housing, transportation, and community-asset projects.
• Magnolia Consulting: Small, mission-driven real estate and community development consulting firm focused on affordable housing and equitable development strategy. Comparable to NEIGHBR as a boutique social-infrastructure consultancy serving community-development clients, though without NEIGHBR's direct development arm.

Emerging players

• Uplift Ventures: Early-stage venture and impact firm supporting community development and built-environment entrepreneurs. Comparable as a peer ecosystem player in social-infrastructure impact investing, though more capital-focused than NEIGHBR's project-delivery model.
• Biophilic Design Collective (boutique design-build firms): Network of small design and build firms specializing in biophilic interior transformations of underutilized commercial spaces. Comparable to NEIGHBR on the atl kula Wellness Studio execution model (biophilic design of repurposed space), though narrower in consulting and impact-investing scope.

Others

• Reonomy: Data and analytics platform for commercial real estate intelligence supporting developers, brokers, and investors. Comparable as an ecosystem enabler serving social-real-estate developers and investors, though NEIGHBR delivers services rather than data products.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights1 record

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/watch?v=Jj7idL75OO8

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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