ULI Philadelphia: Member Breakfast Series March – Building Small with Jim Heid

When

2023-03-03
2023-03-03T08:30:00 - 2023-03-03T10:30:00
America/New_York

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    Where

    One Logan Square Conference Room 130 N 18th St 26th Fl Philadelphia, PA 19103 UNITED STATES

    Pricing

    Pricing Members Non-Members
    Private $40.00 N/A
    Public/Academic/Nonprofit $30.00 N/A
    Retired $25.00 N/A
    Student $15.00 N/A
    Under Age 35 $25.00 N/A
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    Join ULI Philadelphia for the next program in our (almost) monthly Member Breakfast Series, a conversation with ULI Member Jim Heid on small-scale development and his published book, Building Small: A Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders, and Great Communities.

    Small-scale, incremental, real estate development offers an increasingly valuable alternative to more institutional approaches. Small-scale development helps create more authentic places, acts as a magnet for new investment, helps attract talent-based employment, all while fostering a more resilient local economy. This in turn helps communities better differentiate themselves when seeking new investment in an increasingly competitive landscape. For all its virtues, however, entrepreneurial real estate developers working to ‘build small’ face jurisdictional and capital inertia that impedes bringing this approach to scale. Drawing on extensive case studies, interviews with over 100 developers and first-hand knowledge gained from his own personal projects, author and small developer Jim Heid articulates what small-scale development means, why it is essential to communities of every size and location, and how entrepreneurial developers and community leaders can help remove the obstacles to small – resulting in more successful projects and more enduring communities.

    An active member of the Urban Land Institute since 1993, Jim has served as lead instructor for professional certificate courses, including Sustainable Community Design, Mixed-Use Development, Advanced Residential Development, and now, Small-Scale Development. His publications for ULI include Resilience across the Rural to Urban Transect, Reinventing Real Estate, Sustainable Planned Communities and now Building Small: A Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders, and Great Communities

    Copies of Building Small will be available for sale and signing by the author at the event.


    Light breakfast will be provided. This program is members-only and intended to be a dialogue between presenters and attendees. There will be time at the beginning and end of the program for networking.

    Speaker

    Jim Heid

    Founder, CRAFT DnA

    Jim is an infill developer and strategic real estate adviser who has dedicated his career to a simple mission: “to demonstrate real estate development is a constructive endeavor that can positively shape the urban, rural and human environment.” Known for his practical but aspirational approach, Jim founded CRAFT DnA to create more inspired alternatives for working and living. CRAFT focuses on incremental development and intentional place-building in smaller communities that are facing demographic shifts and growth because of their high quality-of-life. Before CRAFT, Jim founded UrbanGreen© a strategic consultancy to government agencies, real estate companies, and legacy landowners seeking more sustainable and resilient approaches to real estate development. His two most recent projects; RiverHouse - a 12 unit infill cottage court; and CraftWork – a 4,500 adaptive reuse into a ‘club-working’ concept have been widely recognized for their high level of design and creativity in a highly challenging development context. An active member of the Urban Land Institute since 1993, Jim has served as lead instructor for professional certificate courses, including Sustainable Community Design, Mixed-Use Development, Advanced Residential Development, and now, Small-Scale Development. His publications for ULI include Resilience across the Rural to Urban Transect, Reinventing Real Estate, Sustainable Planned Communities and now Building Small. Trained as a landscape architect at the University of Idaho, Jim went on to earn a Masters in Real Estate Development from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as a way to more effectively integrate economics, development, and design thinking.

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