Withco

Withco is a real estate company focused on changing how neighborhood businesses and communities participate in commercial property ownership. Its current website describes an approach built around moving important neighborhood buildings into shared ownership, while supporting the local businesses that make those places valuable. The company presents its work as a way to help sustain places where people gather, learn, create, and do business.

Withco works with property owners to transition buildings into shared ownership. These properties can serve as homes for local businesses and as community gathering places. Its website invites building owners to explore a sale or a way to remain invested, and it invites business owners to discuss a financial stake in the building they help make valuable.

Business owners may earn a financial interest in the buildings they steward. Withco says those owners can help shape a property’s future and share in the value they create. This connects the business’s role in a neighborhood with an opportunity to participate in ownership, rather than limiting its relationship with the property to occupying it.

The company also offers participation to neighbors and local investors. Its website describes building-specific offerings through which community members can become shareholders, with displayed investment amounts starting at $100. The company says each offering defines its own rights, rewards, and responsibilities. Its site also states that offering information may be preliminary and directs prospective investors to review relevant offering documents and disclosures.

Withco’s business has evolved over time. A 2022 company announcement described its model as purchasing commercial properties in partnership with small-business owners and using lease-to-own arrangements to help transition those businesses toward full ownership. That announcement said the company was founded by Kevin Song in 2019 and traced its motivation to his family’s experience operating a Brooklyn grocery store before being displaced from the property. The current website, published under the With Studios, Inc. name, emphasizes shared ownership among businesses and community investors.

The company’s stated purpose centers on helping local businesses and neighborhoods retain a stake in the places they make valuable. Its current website frames this as community ownership: building owners, business owners, neighbors, and local investors may all have a role. Withco’s public materials describe an emphasis on neighborhood businesses and places, but do not provide detailed information about internal working culture, employee benefits, or hiring practices.

Withco is headquartered in New York, according to its company announcement and LinkedIn company profile. The 2022 announcement also described its property activity as nationwide. For current information about its ownership approach and offerings, the company directs visitors to with.co; the site cautions that its content is not investment, financial, tax, or legal advice.