Hearth + Ground
Cultural Hospitality Development
Reclaim. Revitalize. Steward.
Hearth + Ground
Hearth + Ground is a cultural hospitality development practice working at the intersection of real estate, historic preservation, food, hospitality, and community.
The practice begins with a simple belief: the places that hold a community's culture should not have to lose that culture in order to survive.
Hearth + Ground works to reclaim and revitalize culturally significant places while creating the economic and operational structures needed to sustain them for the future.
The Work
Hearth + Ground brings development, hospitality, preservation, and cultural strategy together as one practice.
Its work includes real estate and development management, culinary and hospitality strategy, community engagement, heritage documentation, cultural programming, and operational planning.
Rather than beginning with a building and deciding what should go inside it, the process begins by understanding the people, histories, traditions, businesses, foodways, and cultural practices that already give a place meaning.
From there, the work asks:
How can development strengthen what is already here rather than erase it?
Adrian's Role
Hearth + Ground brings together disciplines that have shaped Adrian Lipscombe's career for more than two decades.
Her background in architecture and community planning informs how she approaches land, buildings, infrastructure, development, and community engagement.
Her experience as a chef and restaurateur brings an understanding of hospitality not simply as a business model, but as a way people gather, exchange ideas, build relationships, and create a sense of place.
Her work in food systems, agriculture, and cultural preservation adds another layer: understanding that the identity of a place is carried not only through its buildings, but through the people, businesses, traditions, ingredients, and stories connected to it.
Hearth + Ground brings those disciplines together.
Architecture considers the place.
Planning considers the community.
Hospitality brings people together.
Culture gives the place meaning.
Development creates the structure that allows it to endure.