Watershed Community Development

Our mission is to build resilient communities through affordable placemaking and place keeping. We create at the intersection of arts, equity, and collective well-being.

• Watershed Community Development is a community-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that operates Equinox Studios, a complex of over 170 artist and artisan workspaces.  Watershed is preparing to build over 600 units of workforce housing and community space along 4th Avenue S. in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle.  
• We center folks who live and work in the Duwamish Valley; BIPOC individuals; artists; and those who come from communities that have been, or are at risk of being, displaced from this region. 
• We are passionate about creative expression, affordable housing, and the arts. 
• We value transparency, patience, imagination, humor, collaboration, and intentionality. 
• We are in start-up mode and figuring out how to actualize all our dreams of affordability and community.  
• We strive to amplify diverse voices and experiences, prioritize equitable practices and processes, and create an inclusive culture of care and belonging.  
• We encourage anyone from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply. 
• We acknowledge that we are on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Coast Salish People past and present and honor with gratitude the land itself and their stewardship.