SUMA for Neighborhoods & Districts

Run the district as one place.

A district is used by residents, merchants, workers and visitors at once, and looked after by several organizations at once. SUMA gives the district one number, gets each issue to the partner who can act on it, and keeps the shared standards checked block to block. Every partner works from the same picture.

Where SUMA helps

The district, as people experience it.

01

Give every partner the same picture of the district.

Today

Businesses, residents, city departments, and the district organization each see part of it. Conversations start from different facts.

With SUMA

Residents, merchants and city departments all reach the same number. What comes in is read together, so partners start from the same facts.

02

Get recurring issues to the partner who can act.

Today

An overflowing bin may belong to the city, the district, or a property owner. Reports often go nowhere.

With SUMA

Each issue is routed to whoever owns it, followed up, and closed. The overflowing bin stops going nowhere.

03

Show what changed after a streetscape investment.

Today

Public-realm projects take years to fund and build. Afterwards, their effect is often anecdotal.

With SUMA

What was done is logged, and what people say afterwards is read against it, block by block, so the effect of a project isn’t anecdotal.

Inside SUMA

Data sources and coverage: what SUMA can measure today, and where evidence is still missing.

Alongside your teams and systems

We work alongside the organizations, programs and systems already active in the district. We don’t replace any of them. We handle the routing and follow-through between them.

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Make your place better with SUMA.