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The Garden Door

Choose your door.

The Garden is Alexandria's place to build, gather, learn, launch, and connect.

Find your path

What are you planning?

Weddings and private events, corporate meetings and team days, celebrations, recurring community gatherings, event coffee, founder and builder paths, camps and family programs. Choose the one that fits and we'll point you toward the right next step.

One address on Eisenhower. Many ways in.

Inside one space, people can host a gathering, meet for coffee, learn by doing, bring a team together, build a prototype, launch a founder path, or find community for the next thing they are trying to make happen.

Ecosystem map

One front door for the different reasons people come here.

Events, coffee, BuildMo, youth and family programming, founders, entrepreneurs and builders, and community builders, connected through one clear entry.

Build

BuildMo

Innovation, prototyping, hands-on training, and practical builder energy.

Gather

The Garden

Weddings, events, meetings, weekday groups, fundraisers, and community use.

Learn

Innovation Academy

Youth programs, family programming, camps, classes, and next-generation builders.

Launch

Hardlaunch

A founder pathway for people moving from idea to pilot, market, or community.

Return

Dream Chasers Coffee Lab

Coffee, hospitality, event coffee, community mornings, and daily life.

The room does the convincing.

The Garden large event space with industrial finishes, mural energy, and flexible open floor.
Large Event Space

The venue

2,600 sq ft

Flexible event space for up to 200 guests, a built-in bar, a gallery lounge, a warming kitchen, and a patio.

Built-in bar inside The Garden, suited for event hospitality and future coffee service.
Built-in bar
Wedding celebration setup at The Garden in Alexandria.
Wedding setup
The Garden patio arranged for outdoor gathering and event spillover.
Patio
Gallery and lounge area at The Garden with local art and comfortable gathering space.
Gallery / lounge
Exterior arrival view for The Garden on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria.
Exterior arrival

Coming next: Dream Chasers Coffee Lab

Then coffee gives people a reason to come back.

Dream Chasers Coffee Lab is the coming hospitality and community layer for The Garden. It can make a first visit feel easy and a return visit feel natural, while BuildMo, events, programs, and the wider builder community stay at the center.

  • Espresso bar
  • Cold brew
  • Event coffee
  • Community mornings
Explore Coffee at The Garden
Built-in bar inside The Garden, suited for event hospitality and future coffee service.
Built-in bar, the future home of daily coffee service

Make The Garden a place people return to, not just a place people rent.

90-day pilot cadenceLocal audience loops
Week 1

Builder Breakfast

Coffee, conversation, and a simple morning reason for builders, founders, business owners, and creative operators to meet.

Week 2

Parents' Coffee Hour

A warm morning path for families already nearby for kids programs, play, camps, or activities.

Week 3

Team Build Preview

A short invitation for HR leaders and team leads to feel what a hands-on offsite could become.

Week 4

Coffee + Creativity

Local makers, artists, and neighbors gather around a rotating creative theme.

Ready when you are

Not sure where you fit yet? Stay close.

Get the right updates as The Garden Access takes shape: open houses, events, BuildMo training, team experiences, kids programs, coffee, founder paths, family programming, and hands-on innovation.

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