The Youth Arts and Music Center Initiative is a community-wide effort to design and build an arts center in East Palo Alto. The six-year process, supported by the Goldman Foundation, centered on youth leadership and the arts, and engaged a cross-sector collaborative of partner organizations in an attempt to address the city's shortage of existing arts programming. This case study analysis of the Youth Arts and Music Center Initiative contributes to the existing literature of community youth engagement; that is, the process of engaging youth in efforts to improve their community. Previous research highlights the range of benefits resulting from leveraging the many assets of youth and facilitating opportunities for them to contribute to their community. Contributing to existing research, this study describes the characteristics of community youth engagement and provides examples of how they are manifested in the case of the Youth Arts and Music Center Initiative. Also considered are the factors that helped propel the Initiative forward, as well as important considerations for similar initiatives. [This report was written with the assistance of Jeremy Nguyen, Leslie Patron, and Nancy Mancini. Key partners involved in this study include the Youth Arts and Music Center Project; the John & Marcia Goldman Foundation, whose long-term support and commitment allowed this Initiative to endure; and the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University. ]