by Jim Heid | Jul 14, 2021 | Position Papers
Equity vs. Debt Any development deal, Lean or otherwise, can be boiled down to two primary sources of capital: equity and debt. Equity usually comprises the first dollars in and last dollars out, meaning it holds the highest risk of any project’s financing. Because it...
by Kip Bergstrom | Jul 8, 2021 | Position Papers
Distributed Leadership Lean Urbanism enables real estate development by smaller players than is the case with typical development. It is to be achieved in part through the lightening of red tape in Pink Zones that are applied at the level of the block, corridor,...
by Ann B. Daigle | Jul 3, 2021 | Position Papers
Need & Opportunity Big cities and metropolitan areas, due to their large populations, geographic expanse and complex social and political contexts, have in place extensive organizational and regulatory systems intended to bring order to living, working and...
by Galina Tachieva | Jul 3, 2021 | Position Papers
The Problem in Context The past decade has seen the demise of hundreds of shopping centers and malls. Out of roughly 1,000 enclosed malls in the US, approximately 30% are dead or dying. In places of weak recovery and population loss, malls may languish for years,...
by Marina Khoury | Jul 3, 2021 | Position Papers
Definition Live-work unit, Flexhouse: A dwelling unit on its own lot that contains, to a varying but limited extent, a workplace component. History of live-works Live-work units are among the oldest forms of housing. For centuries, our cities, towns and villages...
