- Conceives and manages comprehensive, large-scale developments, such as a food manufacturing innovation park or coordinated workforce housing
- Identifies sites and obtains site control
- Conceptualizes projects and assembles or leads development teams
- Sources and assembles project financing
- Re-brands the Southland as a region with strong, investible assets, compelling growth opportunities and an identity attractive to firms and residents
- Coordinates regional responses to major new policy initiatives at state and federal levels
- Identifies key industrial/commercial development sites and residential properties to hold and transfer in preparation for redevelopment through close collaboration with the two Land Banks in Cook County
- Develops, co-develops or supports the development of dedicated multi-tenant industrial and commercial facilities, including:
- “Innovation Parks,” where manufacturers, suppliers and distributors within a particular industry can co-locate, share technology and other resources, and form a broader collaborative network to support market and industry growth, as well as increased innovation and productivity for participating firms
- Targeted, strategic commercial development, redeveloping vacant or existing underutilized properties
- Supports private developers of multifamily rental housing targeted to seniors and families
- Supports the rehabilitation and refinance of overleveraged and foreclosed single family homes by assisting in land assembly and title clearance and providing subordinate debt to undertake capital repairs and improvements
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