By bringing transformational real estate development to troubled sites, and community-based economic development to towns and cities, we harness the power of markets to build change. Advanced Placemaking helps neighborhoods, local governments, developers, and property owners craft serious, organized strategies for economic development and revitalization. With our unique combination of business exp
erience and public policy expertise, we craft strategies that are courageous, innovative, and extremely entrepreneurial. Furthermore, our process involves and engages local residents, so that they themselves become the drivers of creative change, rather than its opponents. A functional economic development strategy is more than a laundry list of hopes and dreams. It must be a realistic game plan that harnesses the unique assets of a community, and puts them to productive use in innovative ways that builds pride, creates opportunity, and is sustainable for the long term. Positive change of this sort does not happen by accident. It requires creative vision, pragmatism, and a deep understanding of the principles that drive local economies. We help communities to define success on their own terms, and then give them the tools to achieve it.
