Flagship Project

St. Croix Resilience Campus — a 40–50 acre engine for stability.

The campus is a purpose-built community on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It pairs dignified housing, trauma-informed services, workforce pathways, and its own infrastructure so veterans and their families can move from instability to long-term resilience.

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Project snapshot

  • 40–50 acre master plan: villages, villas, CRC, trades hub, ag zone.
  • Target 80–150 units across veteran housing, family villas, and short-stay pods.
  • On-site microgrid, water, and food systems keep operations online.
  • Designed as a scalable template for future regions — no one left behind twice.

Five pillars guide every build decision

  • Humanitarian impact: housing, counseling, and peer services for veterans and families.
  • Local workforce development: trades training tied directly to campus operations and island demand.
  • Scalable, replicable model: villages, microgrids, and programs that can be cloned elsewhere.
  • Integrated economic self-sufficiency: on-site power, water, food, and revenue components.
  • Operational resilience: the campus doubles as a resilience hub during storms and disruptions.

Why a resilience campus?

Veterans shouldn’t have to chase services across agencies. STX Campus brings housing, workforce labs, wellness, and community into one ecosystem that can keep running even when the island grid or logistics fail.

Key components

Village 5 & Housing Core

Clustered studios and 1–2 BR units (~40–80) with shared greens, ADA design, and direct access to services.

Family Villas & Retreat Pods

10–25 villas plus short-stay pods for families, donors, visiting clinicians, and “reset” programs.

Community Resilience Center

Training classrooms, hot desks, counseling suites, and an EOC-style operations hub for island-wide coordination.

Trades Barn & Vocational Hub

8–15k sq ft workshop for solar, carpentry, fabrication, IT, and construction training pipelines.

Microgrid & Water Systems

1–3 MW solar target, multi-MWh batteries, backup gensets, rain catchment, and optional desalination.

Agriculture & Light Manufacturing

Food plots, greenhouses, aquaponics, and candle-making/light manufacturing nodes for veteran employment.

Community Market & Event Center

A campus café/market, multi-use event venue, and donor residencies to keep the campus woven into local life.

Business Incubator & Co-work

20–40 desks, mentoring, and procurement support for veteran-led ventures and partner nonprofits.

Resilience infrastructure

The campus is designed to operate as a backbone of stability even when the grid or supply chain is stressed.

  • Smart microgrid prioritizes housing, CRC, health, and water loads.
  • Battery storage keeps critical services online for multi-hour outages.
  • Catchment, storage, and optional desalination secure potable water.
  • On-prem network core (“The Vault”) hardens communications and data.
  • Emergency staging yard + logistics support for partner response teams.

Modeled impact

~$128M multi-phase build cost, 120–250 veterans housed annually, 250–500 program participants, and dozens of on-campus jobs — clearly labeled as targets so donors know where we’re headed.

Programs & services anchored on campus

  • Housing navigation & stability: guided path from crisis into homes on-campus or nearby.
  • Trauma-informed counseling & peer support: clinicians, telehealth pods, and peer circles.
  • Vocational labs & trades training: solar, carpentry, agtech, IT, and light manufacturing.
  • Business incubation & co-working: venture mentoring and job pipelines.
  • Health, wellness, & community integration: agriculture, events, and family-centered routines.
  • Crisis & disaster support: the campus can serve as a resilience node during storms.

Coalition mindset

The campus operates as a white-labeled partner network. PatriotChat keeps agencies in sync; the physical campus gives them infrastructure to plug into.

Opportunities for donors & partners

  • Naming opportunities & endowed spaces — CRC, trades barn, villas, scholarships.
  • Impact-aligned investments in energy, hospitality, or revenue components.
  • Corporate workforce pipelines, pilot deployments, and technology showcases.
  • On-campus retreats, leadership intensives, and “serve & learn” programs.
  • Coalition membership and advisory roles for agencies and institutions.

Learn more

Visit stxvets.org for phase maps, engineering briefs, and capital stack details. For private briefings, investors and agencies can reach our team.