The Black Directory Network

The Model Is Designed To Travel

Atlanta is the starting point. Not the destination. The BuildMetroATL framework can be adapted by local leadership in Black metropolitan communities across the country, rooted in each city's own history, institutions, and neighborhoods.

Every major city has aBlack Wall Street story.

A street. A neighborhood. A corridor. A place Black people built into something powerful. The Auburn is Atlanta's answer. Yours can carry your city's name and your city's legacy.

The Network

One Model. Many Cities.

Atlanta is the flagship. These names show how the model travels, each one rooted in a community's own Black Wall Street legacy.

The Auburn

Flagship

Atlanta

The Parrish

Durham

The Greenwood

Tulsa

The Bronzeville

Chicago

The U

Washington DC

The Strivers

Harlem

The Replication Model

What You Build

Community Zones

Map your metro into zones so people know where they belong and where the work happens.

Local Leadership

Rooted, accountable leadership that knows the history, institutions, and neighborhoods.

Community Directory

Your own version of The Auburn: Black-owned, Black-led, and vetted Black-friendly.

Economic Circulation

Relationship-based organizing that keeps resources moving inside the community.

Bring It To Your City

Request To Launch

For local leaders ready to build community infrastructure in their own metro. Tell us about your city and your leadership. We review every request personally.