Apr 10, 2024
Kirk Sykes is Managing Director of Accordia Partners, a Boston-based real estate investment and development company. Accordia develops large public-private real estate projects. Kirk was previously the head of Urban Strategy America Fund, perhaps one of the first urban real estate equity funds focused on the...
Mar 27, 2024
In real estate development, envisioning how future societies will live can often feel like masterminding a high-tech work of science fiction. Just outside of Houston, a new development of the future is emerging. But instead of flying cars and sky-scraping utopias, this version of Tomorrowland has its roots firmly and...
Mar 13, 2024
Rich Rogers is an urban planner and attorney in Buffalo, New York.
In his practice he focuses on tax credit financing and on creative problem-solving to help public and private sector projects work from concept into financing and implementation.
Rich is also a real estate developer, with a project in lease-up on...
Feb 28, 2024
Adriana Abizadeh is the executive director of the Kensington Corridor Trust (KCT) in Philadelphia.
You might wonder what that is and why it exists.
Kensington was once known as the Workshop of the World with booming manufacturing and a well-employed neighborhood. Then, Kensington Avenue was a bustling local business...
Feb 7, 2024
As we embark on a new year, we’re all thinking about fixing things. I bumped this podcast up on my list, because Tracy Hadden Loh has a much bigger and more inspiring fix list than most of us do.
Tracy is bi-racial and has experienced inequity first hand. Even as a young child she knew something was wrong. Her...