Investment

Fundrise - How it works
Fundrise pioneers crowd-invested placemaking: Just seven months ago we were outlining the inevitability of crowd-invested placemaking.
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Crowd-invested placemaking… the next step: What is crowd-invested placemaking and why is it the next step? This
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Locavesting, crowdfunding local businesses on the rise: We’re reaching the tipping point where our investment and tax dollars are
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Housing & Lofts

Drivers of Apartment Living in Canada for the Twenty-First Century
For Gen Y, it’s not about the dream home, but the dream ‘hood: With the Gen Y generation, the largest demographic in U.S. history with
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Vision for downtown Leander, Texas by Gateway Planning Group
Developers favoring walkable over car-oriented 3 to 1: We know the demand for walkable communities is there, but what about
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Chris's Furniture Tetris, Apartment Therapy's Small Cool Apartment Contest winner, Houston, Texas
Small Cool Apartment 2010′ winners: Moving into smaller homes hasn’t only become a financial necessity, it’s fast
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Economic Gardening

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$ leaving Bristol, Connecticut as it is today, in the future if things don't change, and in the future with a triple-bottom-line mindset
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Study: Millennials lead trend to walkable communities The actual headlines based on a new U.S. PIRG study, “New Direction: Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the Implications
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Why Buying Local is Worth Every Cent Ever wish there was a single graphic that effectively summarized the benefits of buying local? Well, scroll down below,
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WalkUP Wake-Up Call’ report a model for walkability We know there’s a demand for walkable communities, but what about the evidence that the demand warrants a supply/investment?
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Fundrise pioneers crowd-invested placemaking Just seven months ago we were outlining the inevitability of crowd-invested placemaking. Since then, the first crowd-investing platform for
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Crowdsourced Placemaking

People would crowdsource piazzas if they had the chance… If given the opportunity to crowdsource a vision for their downtown, what would a triple-bottom-line (economically, socially, environmentally) oriented crowd come up with? Given the emerging generations‘ preferences for pedestrian-only places, local and independent
Posted by Neil Takemoto On Dec 19, 2012
Bristol’s 2-year crowdsourced placemaking success story This is a follow up story to “Bristol crowdsources piazza into downtown plan”. When Renaissance Downtowns, a visionary triple-bottom-line real estate development firm that won an RFP to develop 17 acres of failed shopping
Posted by Neil Takemoto On Dec 7, 2012
What is crowdsourced placemaking?’ video It’s been over four years since I posted the What is crowdsourced placemaking?” page, so I thought it would be time to provide a fresh answer of the same question via a series of
Posted by Neil Takemoto On Sep 12, 2012

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Study: Millennials lead trend to walkable communities
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The actual headlines based on a new U.S. PIRG
People would crowdsource piazzas if they had the chance...
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If given the opportunity to crowdsource a vision for
Bristol's 2-year crowdsourced placemaking success story
Barley Vine gastro pub overlooking the annual Pop-Up Piazza Festival, Bristol, CT
This is a follow up story to “Bristol crowdsources