HabiStore

Long Realty Cares Foundation Provides Start-up Funding

April 2011 - HabiStore Update!

With a substantial donation of start-up funds from Long Realty Cares Foundation, the HabiStore opened its doors in 2006 and has been generating funds for Habitat homes ever since. In addition to being a great place to donate home improvement materials, it’s also a great place to save money and shop!

And the HabiStore is making Tucson greener too – according to Habitat for Humanity Tucson, “selling surplus new and used building and home improvement materials, appliances and furniture to the public, the HabiStore is diverting more than 200 tons of material from the landfill each year.”

Check out the HabiStore website here www.HabitatTucson.org/HabiStore and visit their NEW location at 935 W. Grant Rd. (just a 1/4 mile east of I-10).

March 2006 - New Habitat for Humanity Venture: HabiStore

Long Realty Cares Foundation donated an unprecedented $200,000 to Habitat for Humanity Tucson to launch their new HabiStore: Home Improvement Center. “The HabiStore has been a dream of ours for a decade,” said Michael McDonald, executive director of Habitat for Humanity Tucson. “Long Realty Cares Foundation shared our vision and stepped up to make it reality years ahead of schedule with their substantial donation. Revenues generated from HabiStore, which opened in February 2006, will be used to fund eight to ten additional Habitat homes in greater Pima County within the store’s first three years. Habitat currently builds 30 homes each year for deserving low-income families.

Although the concept is new to Tucson, it is modeled after 300 Habitat Home Improvement Centers already established nationwide. Through strategic partnerships with property managers, developers, contractors, and residents, items such as new and used building materials, large appliances, furniture, and plumbing fixtures are collected and sold at HabiStore at an average 30 to 50% discount.

“We felt that HabiStore was an opportunity to make a big impact on the communities in which we live and work,” said Pat Jessup, president of Long Realty Cares Foundation. “Habitat for Humanity’s mission, to provide affordable housing to hard working individuals, closely ties in with our Foundation mission.” To help the HabiStore staff collect donations, Long Mortgage Company contributed half of the cost to purchase a moving truck from two Long Mortgage consultants.

3840 S. Palo Verde

Tucson, AZ 85714

(520) 889-7200