No One is Coming to Save You…Build Your Community One Step at a Time
Monte Anderson, president of Options Real Estate Investments, Inc., is a practicing real estate developer in the community where he grew up. He also teaches and coaches communities and neighborhoods across the nation that are underserved, impoverished, and forgotten, and feels he has a solution for them. His answer is encouraging and empowering local ownership of real estate to help reverse the erosion of the middle class and to drive reinvestment into our communities. Join Monte to learn about The 12 Steps of Town Making, a book he coauthored with his partners at Neighborhood Evolution, on how small-scale development and local ownership can help revitalize neighborhoods. He will also share his work in transforming obsolete properties into vibrant gathering places for local residents. His work has proven that people across the country want something better than the next big apartment complex or strip mall.
Monte Anderson | Developer
Monte Anderson, president of Options Real Estate Investments, Inc., is a practicing real estate developer in the community where he grew up. He also teaches and coaches communities and neighborhoods across the nation that are underserved, impoverished, and forgotten, and feels he has a solution for them. His answer is encouraging and empowering local ownership of real estate to help reverse the erosion of the middle class and to drive reinvestment into our communities. Join Monte to learn about The 12 Steps of Town Making, a book he coauthored with his partners at Neighborhood Evolution, on how small-scale development and local ownership can help revitalize neighborhoods. He will also share his work in transforming obsolete properties into vibrant gathering places for local residents. His work has proven that people across the country want something better than the next big apartment complex or strip mall.
The Big Impacts of Building Small
The time for Building Small has come. Join this session and gain real world knowledge, inspiration, and valuable insights to the power of incremental, and more organic community building approaches. Jim will share his book, Building Small, an inspiring and educational call-to-action. This 250-page toolkit champions fine grained, evolutionary development as a way to support more resilient local economies, foster more authentic places, heal and grow disinvested neighborhoods, and provide a democratic form of community building that spans age, economic means, and the rural to urban transect. Building Small presents an insightful view at what is possible along with the tools needed to make it happen.
Jim Heid | Author, Infill Developer, Real Estate Advisor
The time for Building Small has come. Join this session and gain real world knowledge, inspiration, and valuable insights to the power of incremental, and more organic community building approaches. Jim will share his book, Building Small, an inspiring and educational call-to-action. This 250-page toolkit champions fine grained, evolutionary development as a way to support more resilient local economies, foster more authentic places, heal and grow disinvested neighborhoods, and provide a democratic form of community building that spans age, economic means, and the rural to urban transect. Building Small presents an insightful view at what is possible along with the tools needed to make it happen.
Breaking From the Suburban Era to Unlock Housing: Strategies From Maine, New Hampshire + Vermont
Northern New England states are making big moves to shift to a place-based approach to investment by strengthening state and regional support for local planning and coordinating state funding in service of local housing and development projects. Learn about new programs to provide a state-level path to project approvals in New Hampshire, tools to help enable small-scale building types in Vermont, realignment of programs to support planning by Maine communities, and more.Building Small presents an insightful view at what is possible along with the tools needed to make it happen.
Moderator: Representative Traci Gere; Sarah Curran | Deputy Director, Climate Planning and Community Partnerships, Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future; Jacob Hemmerick | Vermont Department of Housing & Community Development; George Reagan | Director, Community Engagement, New Hampshire Housing
Northern New England states are making big moves to shift to a place-based approach to investment by strengthening state and regional support for local planning and coordinating state funding in service of local housing and development projects. Learn about new programs to provide a state-level path to project approvals in New Hampshire, tools to help enable small-scale building types in Vermont, realignment of programs to support planning by Maine communities, and more.Building Small presents an insightful view at what is possible along with the tools needed to make it happen.
Allison Thurmond Quinlan
Alli will highlight how small-scale infill can breathe value into neighborhoods and how to cut through the voodoo of pro formas, zoning, and building codes to create beautiful, lovable, walkable projects that make sense for communities and make money for investors.
Architect, Landscape Architect, Small Infill Developer | Flintlock Ltd Co | Flintlock Development
Alli will highlight how small-scale infill can breathe value into neighborhoods and how to cut through the voodoo of pro formas, zoning, and building codes to create beautiful, lovable, walkable projects that make sense for communities and make money for investors.
Eric Kronberg
Eric will highlight how small-scale infill can breathe value into downtowns and provide a way for more people to break into the real estate development field. He will also help municipalities understand where zoning and other policies can suppress incremental development.
PRincipal | Kronberg Wall
Eric will highlight how small-scale infill can breathe value into downtowns and provide a way for more people to break into the real estate development field. He will also help municipalities understand where zoning and other policies can suppress incremental development.