With its recent gift of a former bank building to the Bronx Council on the Arts, Chase demonstrates leadership and vision for a revitalized arts and cultural community in the Bronx. For many years, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation has been an exemplary corporate citizen that has supported arts, culture and commerce in the Bronx and beyond. On April 4, 2011, Mayor Bloomberg presided at a press conference announcing that through the strategic and philanthropic support of JPMorgan Chase, a former Washington Mutual bank branch is to become BCA’s new headquarters that will serve as a vital anchor for the revitalized Westchester Square business district in the Bronx. BCA has leveraged this gift to develop collaborations with the Westchester Square community, the Westchester Square Merchant’s Association, local businesses and local artists. This creative and lasting support provides a model for growing and sustaining communities by spotlighting the arts and their role as economic catalysts.