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.