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OUR PHILOSOPHY

A laundromat with community impact

99% of laundromats are just laundromats. While they may be clean and provide a valuable service, they are plain, boring, and have no culture to them.


However, we believe strongly in the way that laundromats impact local communities, particularly the underserved and marginalized communities that primarily use laundromats. Because of that, it's important to us that our employees, vendors, and partners have causes that they care about but that they do not prescribe to morals and ideals that create conflict in the communities that we support.


Examples of causes we support include but are not limited to:


  • Ending systemic racism and human rights violations by law enforcement against black, indigenous, and people of color


  • Members of the lgbtqia2s+ communities and the right to be treated with respect and dignity and to be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love.


  • The fight against environmental injustice and climate change (ask us how a laundromat does this)


  • It is essential that laws relating to abortion respect, protect, and fulfil the human rights of pregnant persons and not force them to seek out unsafe abortions.


  • Policies and programs that address community gun violence are essential to tackle the public health epidemic of gun violence in the United States and promote health equity.


  • Raising the minimum wage to $15 will be particularly significant for workers of color and would help narrow the racial pay gap. The majority of workers who would benefit are adult women—many of whom have attended college and many of whom have children.


  • Affordable housing is a critical building block not only for the stability and success of the families we serve, but also for the long-term economic health and prosperity of the community in which we live.

OUR IMPACT & GOALS

Measuring Our Social Impact

Ending systemic racism

  • We have a sign in our window advocating for anti-racist police
  • We do not perform background checks on employees


lgbtqia2s+ communities

  • We hire members of these communities


Environmental injustice

  • 100% of our energy usage comes from solar and wind energy (learn more via Arcadia)
  • We pay $__/month for a unique local recycling pick-up service (temporarily paused)
  • We recycle more than one recycling bin of recyclable material weekly (temporarily paused)
  • We have a goal to install reclamation systems for washer water and dryer heat
  • We give our customers a discount for using cold water and low heat dryers
  • We educate our customers on the misconceptions of using hot water
  • We use environmentally-friendly detergent and fabric softeners for our wash & fold customers
  • We offer environmentally-friendly detergent and fabric softeners to our coin laundry customers
  • Condensation from our AC window units water our plants
  • Our AC window units use 20-30% less energy than central air
  • We have plants on the property


Abortion

  • We will pay for the abortion costs of our employees who have been with us for more than 3 months


Gun Violence

  • Guns are not allowed on our property


$15 minimum wage

  • We pay a $15 minimum wage to our employees
  • Employees average $18-$20 per hour with tips and commission


Affordable Housing

  • STR investors meeting the criteria below, receive a 5% discount on wash and fold services for their STR properties and guests as well as free soap and drying for the tenants of their affordable housing units
  • STR investors with 20 or more properties must have 5% or more affordable housing units
  • STR investors with 6-20 properties must have at least 1 affordable housing property
  • STR investors with less than 5 properties do not have to have affordable housing properties

OUR COMMUNITY'S HISTORY OF IMPACT

Many famous and influential neighbors have not only created social impact but are connected by timel

Faubourg Livaudais Plantation


Marie Celeste Philippe Esnoul de Livaudais (De Marigny De Mandeville) - 1735-1860

  • the originating social impact for our laundromat's community (women's rights, property)
  • sued her husband and won, awarding her ownership of the Faubourg Livaudais Plantation
  • sold to 4 investors


Samuel Jarvis Peters - 1801-1855

  • investor 2 of 4
  • considered to be the "Father of New Orleans Public Schools"


1520 Prytania


John M. Parker - 1863-1939

  • governor who was very supportive of environmental conservation, lobbied for anti-KKK laws, and education


2500 Prytania


Mrs. Herman de Bachelle Seebold - 1950-?

  • House was donated to the Women's Guild of the New Orleans Opera


2523 Prytania St


Nicolas Cage

  • Regarded as one of the most generous actors in Hollywood
  • Supporter of amnesty international, gun control, negro college fund, baby ICU's, anti-slavery, anti-child labor, Katrina, war zone children


1134 First Street


Charles E Fenner - 1834-1911

  • Coincidentally, the residence of the judge who wrote "separate but equal" (which inspired Plessy vs Ferguson) is located almost exactly an equal distance from Canal St as the location of the arrest in the opposite direction on Press St
  • Coincidentally, the distance of the residence from Canal and the distance of the arrest site from Canal in the opposite direction are both almost 1.8 miles each, and there were 18 people that helped protest with Homer Plessy.
  • Coincidentally, the residence of the judge is only 1 block short of 8 blocks away from the laundromat and Plessy vs Ferguson was prompted by an arrest on a street car for whites only, at a time when being black was defined as being more than 1/8th black.
  • Coincidentally, the address of the residence of the judge has the same digits as the 13th (abolish slavery) and 14th (equal citizens) Amendments and the number 13 is in between a 1 and a 4, which adds irony to the coincidence.
  • Coincidentally, the middle name of the judge begins with the letter "E"


1239 First Street


Emory Clapp - 1821-1880

  • son of the first Unitarian reverend
  • first religions to break from older religions and welcome to all and LGBTQ


John Minor Wisdom - 1905-1999

  • judge that contributed heavily toward desegregation
  • received Presidential Medal of Freedom


Anne Rice

  • supported equality for gay men and lesbians (including marriage rights)
  • advocate for abortion rights and birth control
  • broke free from the Catholic religion


1448 Fourth Street


Michael Hahn - 1830-1886

  • early senator who rallied for black suffrage in Louisiana after the Civil War
  • might have been gay, died never married


Nathaniel P. Banks - 1816-1894

  • Supporter of Manifest Destiny (interesting that Mos Def's first album was named this), Alaska Purchase legislation, women's suffrage


2230 Carondelet


Hasidic Jews from Lithuania

  • synagogue


2328 Coliseum Street


Ceneilla Bower Alexander - 1865-1966

  • art direction of the Rex parade during the first half of the 20th century was led by women


2425 Coliseum Street


John Goodman

  • supporter of Alcoholics Anonymous


2627 Coliseum St


Sandra Bullock

  • supporter of the Red Cross, Katrina, and adoption


1122 Jackson Ave


Helene Goldsmith Godchaux - 1901-1993

  • Jewish activist who assisted immigrant women to find work sewing (the building where the laundromat is located was first owned by a seamstress)


Lafayette Cemetery No. 1


Cornelius Hurst - 1796-1851

  • first New Orleans cemetery where people who were not Catholics could be buried


2220 St. Charles Avenue


Bonnie Broel - 1938-

  • Lifetime Achievement Award from Fashion Group International for her contributions to the fashion industry
  • created a fashion museum
  • ordained as an interfaith minister


2701 St. Charles Avenue


Clarisse Claiborne Grima - 1895-?

  • donated arts and home to the Historic New Orleans Collection


Unknown Address


Mos Def

  • advocate against police brutality against BIPOC, nuclear weapons, torture in prison
  • supporter of Katrina survivors, freedom of speech, right to peaceful protest, the environment, artists from marginalized communities, graffiti

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