About / 107 acres
On the ground a city was once made.
Kenosha built America's cars, motors, and mattresses. Then the factories closed. innovateKIN is what comes next — a 107-acre experiment in rebuilding a working neighborhood from the inside out.
Principles
Four rules
we don't
break.
01
Stitch, don't stamp
We grow blocks into a neighborhood, not drop a campus on top of one.
02
Public before private
Parks, plazas, and learning come first — the rest follows.
03
Local first
Kenosha hands, Kenosha jobs, Kenosha kids in our classrooms.
04
Built to be inhabited
Architecture that gets better with use, not worse.
The team
A small core,
a wide circle.
innovateKIN is led by a partnership of the City of Kenosha, the Kenosha Innovation Center, and the Engine Works startup studio — and powered by hundreds of collaborators: students, builders, founders, neighbors.