“If you love what you do, it never feels like work.” Jason Algaze grew up surrounded by creativity. His mother was an interior decorator, and his grandfather, a civil engineer, built apartment buildings in Brooklyn and Queens. From a young age, Jason was drawn to both the artistry and structure of making things. “I was definitely a very creative kid,” he recalls. “I did a lot of art, but I was also always in that extra class during lunch building bridges or robots. I was obsessed with Legos.” Years later, that creative foundation would lead him - together with his business partner, Daniel Rudofsky - to form Abstract Group, the development company behind One Burton, a stunning new apartment building in South Salt Lake.

“Housing alone will never solve homelessness, but community can,” shared Camilla “Winnie,” Vice President of The Other Side Village. From the moment she voiced that conviction, everything began to align. Inspired by what she had witnessed at Community First Village in Austin, Texas, she returned to Utah with a vision - not just for housing, but for healing. “It’s the whole person, first. Housing comes last.”