Our Community Investment, and Involvement

Classic Management Inc. and its staff care about the future of Philadelphia. Through our business practices, and through staff members’ personal contributions, we strive to help develop the communities surrounding our properties. We look for opportunities to support local economies, to ensure safety, to create more desirable shopping, and to open doors of opportunity for the deserving disadvantaged.

Here’s how.

Through our Retail Investment

In addition to our apartment complexes, Classic Management owns, leases and manages a variety of retail properties. We believe that easy access to consumer necessities is an important part of what makes a neighborhood desirable. We keep our complexes fully leased, clean and well-maintained to give local residents accessible convenience shopping and reduced transportation.

Through our Local Business Partnerships

When Classic Management needs to sub-contract maintenance work, or purchase supplies and services, we look first to the local business community. We prefer contracting and partnering with service providers and vendors based in the communities of our complexes. We view local partnerships as an important investment in local economies. We believe that feeding local economies produces thriving, active communities.

Through our Educational Donations

Classic Management founder and CEO Michael Young, along with his wife, Sue Young, established the Michael F. and Sue E. Young Foundation in 2006 to provide high-achievement inner-city students with scholarships to the Philadelphia area’s more prestigious high schools. The Foundation has enabled many advanced students to overcome the financial obstacles to receiving a quality education and fulfilling their potential.

Michael and Sue have been active in supporting educational programs for disadvantaged youth since 1996. Funds from their foundation are invested in students enrolled in these community programs:

Since 1996, Michael and Sue have made annual contributions to the Sponsorship of the Adopt A Salesian Sister Program. Funds are directed to the welfare of aging and infirm Sisters dedicated to educating young people, especially the poor.

Through their involvement since 1997 with Inn Dwelling Youth at Risk Program—a Germantown-based, church-affiliated program reinforcing academic and social skill behaviors—Michael and Sue have sponsored seven students for scholarships. All of those students have succeeded in their new learning environments, with many receiving university scholarships.

Michael is also a board member of BLOCS, Business Leaders Organized for Catholic Schools. BLOCS programs and funds support 90,000 elementary, secondary and special education students in the area, many who are non-catholic and/or minority students. BLOCS’ mandate is to provide personal and professional life skills to youths, and in turn to provide the business community with a strong and competent workforce.

To learn more about Classic Management’s commitment to our communities, please contact us.