Creating the Ecosystem for Incremental Developers To Succeed

The secret to a great city, town, or neighborhood is that it is shaped by many hands, yet many of our places have faced stagnation and decline for decades. When reinvestment eventually comes, it is implemented by large-scale developers, often from outside the community. A healthy incremental development ecosystem is one where locals own, implement, and benefit from reinvestment in their community. Neighborhood Evolution is a new organization helping to ready, steady, and nurture cities and incremental developers. This panel will feature the founders of Neighborhood Evolution, who are all developers in their own right with decades of experience and wisdom. The conversation will particularly focus on the story of South Bend, Indiana, which has seen a powerful transformation over the last several years as a result of incremental development efforts.

Speakers: Monte Anderson, Mike Keen, Barbara Taylor, and Bernice Radle. Moderated by Gracen Johnson.