Services
Property management, utilities, leasing, concierge and hospitality, retail curation: one operator, accountable for all of it.
An integrated approach to building
StrongerCommunities
Eudora designs, builds, and operates walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods that bring people together, strengthen local economies, and regenerate natural ecosystems.
Brookings / Leinberger · NAR · Maas et al.
How we work
It takes a village.
We collaborate with landowners, municipalities, and investors to maximize the social, economic, and ecological impact of our neighborhoods.
Landowners
Unlock the value under your feet.
A share in what the neighborhood earns, for decades.
Half your land permanently conserved.
A legacy your family can visit, not just a check they can spend.
One accountable partner from first conversation through operations, never a flip to the highest bidder.
Structured around your goals: sale, participation, or a blend.
For landowners →Municipalities
Boost your economy and advance climate goals.
More tax revenue per acre, at a lower cost to serve: compact infrastructure we build and maintain, not the town.
A clean microgrid that powers the neighborhood without straining your grid.
Your residents will love it: over 40% of Americans want a walkable neighborhood, and almost none exist.
Standards you can read before you approve, and hold us to after.
For municipalities →Investors
Mixed-use neighborhoods outperform the market.
A 35%+ price premium for walkable mixed-use, and no comparable supply in the Northeast.
Market-rate returns, not concessionary.
Residents stay in places they love, and retention compounds returns.
$84 trillion in generational wealth is moving toward durable, values-aligned assets.
For investors →What we build
Everything in one place.
Complete neighborhoods integrate housing, retail, civic uses, hospitality, and agriculture within a walkable footprint. Each neighborhood is designed for resilience, powered by its own renewable microgrid, with 50% of the land or more conserved forever. We design, build, and operate each one to maximize value for everyone at the table: residents, municipalities, landowners, and investors.
Our model
We own and operate.
Most developers build and move on: their incentives end at the sale. Eudora is a different animal. We take complete ownership of our neighborhoods, from beneath the soil to community governance. Every layer is designed to strengthen the others, and we operate the whole for the long term, because resident retention is where value compounds.
Conservation enables density. Density enables amenities. Amenities drive retention. Retention compounds value.
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Community Stewardship
The Commons, Eudora’s alternative to the conventional HOA: professionally managed, funded from day one.
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Operations
Property management, utility delivery, leasing, concierge services and hospitality, retail curation.
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Built Environment
Homes, retail, hospitality, and civic buildings. Multiple typologies on the same site.
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Infrastructure
Microgrid energy, water reuse, streets, paths, and telecom.
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Natural Systems
Land, water, biodiversity, and regenerative agriculture. Conservation as the foundation of everything above it.
Operations & stewardship
Great places to live.
Eudora neighborhoods are designed to improve the quality of life for residents and the surrounding community. A place to live, work, play, and connect with nature.
The Commons
Eudora’s alternative to the conventional HOA: professional stewardship focused on making the neighborhood better, guided by residents, not policing them.
59%
of buyers prioritize neighborhood quality over the home itself
NAR
4×
more Americans want a walkable neighborhood than can find one
NAR / RCLCO
44%
lower anxiety in the greenest neighborhoods
Maas et al.
Resilience and regeneration
Built for a Changing Future.
As our climate becomes increasingly volatile, our built environment must adapt. Resilience is now a financial requirement, not a virtue. We design every neighborhood to protect residents and mitigate disruption.
Energy
A clean microgrid with battery storage and geothermal systems: resilient, renewable power delivered to residents and sold back to the grid.
Homes
High-performance envelopes, passive solar orientation, and low embodied carbon: mass timber, recycled and local materials.
Land
Native landscaping, regenerative agriculture, wildlife corridors, wetland buffers, and stormwater systems that work to protect and cultivate the land.
$182.7B
Climate disaster damages in 2024, in the US alone
NOAA NCEI
23/yr
billion-dollar disasters this decade, up from 3/yr in the 80s
NOAA NCEI
+40%
increase in home insurance premiums in just five years
NAIC
Where we build
Nestled in the beautiful Hudson Valley.
Eudora is a Hudson Valley company. We live here, and our first neighborhoods will be built here: a region growing faster than its housing, where every new project either strengthens a town or sprawls past it. We know its villages, its planning boards, and its land, and we intend to set the standard for what responsible growth here looks like.
Who we are
The people behind the places.
We’ve combined our careers in planning, development, and operations to pursue a single conviction: to build stronger, more resilient communities that improve lives and regenerate ecosystems.
Urban Planner
Jeffrey Shumaker, AICP
Former Chief Urban Designer of New York City. Twenty-five years in urban design and planning, with leadership roles at SOM, KPF, and BIG.
Developer
Jonathan Drescher, LEED ND AP
Former SVP at the Durst Organization. Led VIA 57 West and Halletts Point, and the post-9/11 World Trade Center master plan at Arup.
Operator
Jay Decker
Co-founder of Avocado, a vertically-integrated organic lifestyle brand. Scaled sustainability and customer experience programs to millions of customers.
Built for generations.
Through traditional neighborhood design principles, sustainable energy systems, and community service programs, we can begin to repair the inadvertent damages of sprawl and improve the quality of life in America.
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