ideaPlexDC brings the future of media technology to the District across three specific areas: workforce training, turnkey production suites for local creatives, and commercial production stages for premier content creators.
A gamechanger in every sense, ideaPlexDC will generate new jobs, new revenue, and new opportunities to elevate the District’s technology profile.
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Everything starts as an idea.
Every story. Every app. The simplest product. The most disruptive innovation.
ideaPLEXDC empowers local creators to bring their ideas to life and to the marketplace. Here, at the intersection of art and commerce, creators gain access to state-of-the-art digital tools. They have space to experiment. They find the encouragement to keep going. By building the studio of their dreams, we’re freeing creators to dream and produce bigger and to go wherever their ingenuity takes them.
Building a
Vital Creative Community
The District is home to countless creative entrepreneurs capable of enriching our world with their stories and ideas. The number of individual artists in the region has increased significantly over the past decade. But too often, they lack the necessary resources to realize their visions. Artists in media production are chronically under-supported and face far more barriers than opportunities.
ideaPlexDC changes all that for local creatives. With Power House DC, we are building the studio of their dreams—a place that makes the media production pipeline accessible to all budgets. Here, creatives access the turnkey resources they need to develop, actualize, and monetize bigger and bolder ideas. They also connect with others to collaborate on projects, share business opportunities, and provide much needed encouragement.
Most important, ideaPlexDC™ is a community for all creatives. We welcome, encourage, include, and value everyone regardless of their race, gender, gender expression, age, religion, national origin, disability, or sexual identity in any of our activities or operations.
Unique Solutions
to Ongoing Challenges
A tech cluster unlike any other in the region, ideaPlexDC features three distinct but symbiotic components capable of enhancing DC’s creative economy, supporting the prosperity of residents, and catalyzing innovation.
Specifically, this unique facility addresses several key challenges identified by District leadership that are also top-of-mind for residents and businesses:
- Ensuring District students and residents have essential opportunities to train for in-demand creative production jobs, which are expected to grow substantially over the next decade
- Providing affordable, accessible production space and equipment to DMV creatives
- Modernizing the District’s media technology infrastructure and raising its profile to attract large-scale productions that bring the city new employment opportunities and revenue
- Adding a vibrant destination to the Modern at Art Place
- Attracting much-needed foot traffic to the Fort Totten neighborhood