Last May, Lyneir Richardson told us about his audacious goal to help 1,000 urban entrepreneurs grow their businesses, through a nine-month program run by the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. This year we are talking to him again about his latest project, implemented through The Chicago TREND … [Read more...] about Building generational wealth.
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The Missing Middle.
Daniel Parolek is an architect, urbanist and the founder of Opticos Design, which has been working in urban placemaking and master planning for two decades. Daniel is best known for framing the idea of ‘missing middle housing’ just as the critical absence of affordable housing was becoming a major planning issue for cities nationwide. The ‘missing middle’ can be broadly … [Read more...] about The Missing Middle.
Hello, Neighbor.
Max Levine's organization, NICO (Neighborhood Investment Company), has a mission “to localize wealth creation and broaden access to neighborhood equity.” The Los Angeles neighborhood Max lives in, Echo Park, has an income average of $40,000, whereas the average home is valued at $900,000 – an enormous discrepancy. Max and his business partner, John Chaffetz, began exploring the … [Read more...] about Hello, Neighbor.
Urban economics.
Simply put, urban economics is the study of buildings and cities and why they develop the way they do. Urban economics help us to determine why certain places are so much more vital than others through the exploration of land-use, zoning, employment patterns, and the price of land. Over the last century cities have experienced massive change. With the arrival of the … [Read more...] about Urban economics.
Manufacturing change.
Green builder, Scott Flynn, co-founded indieDwell with Pete Gombert four years ago “to change the building industry by offering high quality, sustainable and healthy homes to underserved communities." In the early 1990s, Scott worked as a carpenter’s apprentice building and remodeling homes, and even after he graduated from college as a chemical engineer, he continued to do … [Read more...] about Manufacturing change.