Investment
Build your portfolio while building sustainable homes in Santa Cruz and the Bay Area.
We provide tailored investment opportunities with strong returns from decades of collective experience designing and building multifamily housing. Why invest with Workbench?
Our local knowledge gives our investors the advantage.
Our reputation and local relationships create opportunities.
We’re positioned in a proven growth market with untapped potential.
We’re laser-focused on, mixed-use, and multifamily properties that grow communities.
Invest in an innovative solution to housing development: our model can grow in many economic conditions and fills a missing part of the housing industry.
Innovative Model
Steady Returns
Many investment options based on your goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance.
6+ Year
Track Record of Making All Interest Payments
25%+
Market Rate Returns Target
15%+
Impact Investment Returns On Many Projects
Ways to invest
Market Rate
SC Catalyst Fund & Projects
We partner with like-minded institutions and individual investors to make highly successful housing creation ventures. Available projects are diverse in their impact and returns and can be tailored to the specific partnership.
Impact Investment
New Way Homes Fund
Sibley Simon directs New Way Homes, an impact investment fund. Investors have access to an opportunity zone fund and investment that provides modest returns that enable nonprofit and other mission-driven landowners to design, permit and finance projects that focus on providing below-market-rate rental housing.
Our Investment Services
Acquisitions
Leveraging deep local connections in dynamic markets, we close acquisitions that others can’t.
Development
We’re experts in ground-up development and adaptive reuse — increasing asset value with expert sustainability capabilities.
Asset management
We maximize ROI through bespoke management strategies that adapt to market conditions.
Invest in the future of housing.
Whether you have your own project and seek our expertise or are seeking investment, please reach out. We look forward to the opportunity to build together!
TIM GORDIN
Founding Partner, Developer
Opportunity is here.
Coastal California has long been a place of opportunity and innovation. Like many desirable places to live, it has a shortage of high quality housing of varying types. Workbench is at the forefront of adding much needed housing beautifully and sustainably.
A need for housing like never before
Decades of slow and no growth policy has created huge scarcity and short fall in the demand for housing. Local rents are on average $500 more than even more urban areas. Coastal California seeks to preserve it’s open spaces and natural beauty by building denser, more sustainable neighborhoods, with a more walkable focus and less car dependancy.
Change in legislation means this is the ideal time to invest
New housing laws promote denser building and streamlines the planning and building approval process. Federal, state, and local incentives promote solar and net-zero efficiency, fire-resistance, long-lasting materials. This results in projects that are high quality, long-lasting, sustainable, and that pencil at attractive returns.
Growth is happening
Every community in California must have a plan to meet it’s RHNA goals. Santa Cruz City alone needs to build nearly 3,800 new homes over the next eight years to meet these state targets. It will take density to create that many homes in a sustainable way, that impacts the community in positive ways.
Down-to-earth investor community
We like to work with investors we enjoy; like-minded individual and organizations who believe in the community and want to see it thrive. We’re committed to laying out all the details and building transparency and trust at every stage.
“We challenged Workbench to complete the Jack O’Neill Restaurant & Lounge renovation in just over 7 weeks. This was an incredibly fast-track schedule, given the scope of the remodel. Workbench’s versatility and experience enabled them to meet this aggressive schedule while achieving our high quality standards.”
Darren Pound
What impressed me most about Workbench was how much they cared, especially in design and project management. Their mastery of the permitting process comes in a close second. They live up to the tagline of Concept to Completion.”
Gretta Gil
There were challenges along the way, but Workbench helped to provide choices to solve them. Their design team is very good with small spaces and details, and we love the end result. Thank you Workbench. I am glad you are part of the Santa Cruz community.
Dan Kercher
