Detroit Built This. Our Turn.
Become a founding member of Detroit’s next cultural institution.
The community is the proof.
Sarovyn was built by hand. Floors carried in piece by piece. Sessions run before the walls were finished. A community that showed up before there was a building to show up to.
The Cultural Founders Circle is the next step. Your contribution sustains the programming that built this, funds the membership infrastructure the flagship requires, and puts your name on something permanent.
This is a declaration.
It didn’t start with a business plan.
I built this with my hands.
I started this with my last $2,000 and a contract for outdoor space I had already paid for before anyone signed up.
The first session sold out in 24 hours.
What followed was four years of building. Not planning. Building. I moved 3.5 tons of flooring by hand. I drew the layout of the first space in my daughter’s sidewalk chalk, on skates, alone in a cold machine shop, before a single board was down. The vision was already complete. The building just hadn’t caught up.
Nearly 800 adults came through that room. They came back week after week. Not because it was perfect. Because it was real. I would sit there some nights, quietly, watching people skate in the space I had seen in chalk before it existed in wood. Watching them become something the rest of their week didn’t allow.
That is what Sarovyn is. Not a skating program. A place where people return to themselves.
Less than one percent of the skating community I spent forty years inside came to support what I built. The room filled anyway. With people who had never been centered by an industry built on their culture, their time, their energy. They showed up. They stayed. They came back.
The Sarovyn Cultural Founders Circle is how we build the infrastructure that matches what this community has already proven it deserves.
I am not asking you to believe in a concept. I am asking you to invest in something already proven. Put your name on what comes next.
The Sarovyn Cultural Founders Circle
Your legacy begins here. Choose your place in Detroit’s future.
This is the highest honor within the Cultural Founders Circle. Cornerstone Founders are woven into Sarovyn’s permanent story — recognized for life, celebrated during our opening year, and granted priority access to future limited releases.
- Lifetime Cornerstone recognition
- Invitation to Cornerstone Dinner, opening year
- Priority early access to all future limited releases.
Everything in Early Access Circle, plus two years of reserved access to all Founders Night events and a personal video message from Keith recorded for you.
- Reserved access to Founders Night events for two years
- Personal video message from Keith
+ Everything included in Early Access Circle
Everything in Foundation Stone, plus a private walkthrough of the future home before it opens. A limited-edition Sarovyn medallion pin made only for this circle.
- Exclusive Sarovyn medallion pin
- Private pre-opening walkthrough
+ Everything included in Foundation Stone
Everything in Cultural Contributor, plus your name engraved on the Founding Wall inside Sarovyn’s permanent home. The wall only gets built once. These names don’t come down.
- Name engraved on the Founding Wall
+ Everything included in Cultural Contributor
Everything in Legacy Certificate, plus a seat at the table. You’ll join Keith for a private virtual Founder’s Briefing. An inside look at where Sarovyn is going and how we’re getting there.
- Private virtual Founder’s Briefing with Keith
+ Everything included in Legacy Certificate
Everything in Passport Circle, plus a custom Founding Member Certificate bearing your name. Printable. Permanent. Yours.
- Digital Founding Member Certificate
+ Everything included in Passport Circle
Everything in Supporter, plus the first-ever Sarovyn Passport digital stamp. A collectible mark of your early commitment to this institution.
- Exclusive Sarovyn Passport digital stamp
+ Everything included in Supporter
You were here before the building existed. This contribution puts your name on the Sarovyn Founders Roll. A permanent record of the people who believed first.
- Name on the Sarovyn Founders Roll
- Digital founder recognition
- Welcome letter from Keith
Cornerstone Founder
This is the highest honor within the Cultural Founders Circle. Cornerstone Founders are woven into Sarovyn’s permanent story — recognized for life, celebrated during our opening year, and granted priority access to future limited releases.
- Lifetime Cornerstone recognition
- Invitation to Cornerstone Dinner, opening year
- Priority early access to all future limited releases.
Vision Circle
Everything in Early Access Circle, plus two years of reserved access to all Founders Night events and a personal video message from Keith recorded for you.
- Reserved access to Founders Night events for two years
- Personal video message from Keith
+ Everything included in Early Access Circle
Early Access Circle
Everything in Foundation Stone, plus a private walkthrough of the future home before it opens. A limited-edition Sarovyn medallion pin made only for this circle.
- Exclusive Sarovyn medallion pin
- Private pre-opening walkthrough
+ Everything included in Foundation Stone
Foundation Stone
Everything in Cultural Contributor, plus your name engraved on the Founding Wall inside Sarovyn’s permanent home. The wall only gets built once. These names don’t come down.
- Name engraved on the Founding Wall
+ Everything included in Cultural Contributor
Cultural Contributor
Everything in Legacy Certificate, plus a seat at the table. You’ll join Keith for a private virtual Founder’s Briefing. An inside look at where Sarovyn is going and how we’re getting there.
- Private virtual Founder’s Briefing with Keith
+ Everything included in Legacy Certificate
Legacy Certificate
Everything in Passport Circle, plus a custom Founding Member Certificate bearing your name. Printable. Permanent. Yours.
- Digital Founding Member Certificate
+ Everything included in Passport Circle
Passport Circle
Everything in Supporter, plus the first-ever Sarovyn Passport digital stamp. A collectible mark of your early commitment to this institution.
- Exclusive Sarovyn Passport digital stamp
+ Everything included in Supporter
Supporter
You were here before the building existed. This contribution puts your name on the Sarovyn Founders Roll. A permanent record of the people who believed first.
- Name on the Sarovyn Founders Roll
- Digital founder recognition
- Welcome letter from Keith