Over the past 15 years, there have been a number of business ventures considered and a small number of them were started. A few have failed -- or were essentially 'stillborn' -- but most continue to incubate or have been combined and absorbed within the whole. Though there are 5-10 projects on our current list... only 3 or 4 are on the front burner. The rest are simmering quietly in the background waiting for a full course meal one of these days.  ;)

The few links below (or in the menu bar above) will show you a couple of the larger or more prominent / public ones.  Others are still simmering more privately.  The immediate goal is to create sustainable sources of revenue for the maintenance of the existing infrastructure and to support those few core members devoting full-time hours to helping do such. Ultimately, we hope to grow businesses which will help feed the rest of fortunity's membership while joining the greater Asheville/regional community potluck of ideas and creative visions already established.

We have downscaled in recent years and shifted away from the green building and real estate realm back to focusing more on gardening, information, alternative energy and future food service & retail plans. Cleaning, fixing up, and renovating all our spaces will be an ongoing project in the background of everything else this coming year. But a metal shop, farm-gardens, and library will slowly be developed during winter months, and by spring we hope to raise more funds and consider opening an bookshop-teahouse alongside meeting and educational spaces for rent.

Truly, the core business-project incubating for many years involves an information exchange -- and lots of it! The future fortuneXchange will be the anchor business on the street level of The Fortune Building, and will eventually become the flagship of fortunity itself -- the essence of why we're here doing all this, and what we hope to replicate elsewhere.

Keep in touch, watch us grow, or get involved in whatever way you can as we re-invent ourselves and each other in the process.