Making the case for a low-hanging, community based fruit. Lean Urbanism calls meantime uses “quick, temporary, and inexpensive strategies to activate underutilized properties when a weak market doesn’t justify more substantial investment.”

I’ll start this off with a confession: I’m partially writing this in earnest so that those interested can understand my career evolution, and I’m partially writing this so some of my closest friends and family understand what it is I actually do…

Within the past year, I’ve turned 30 and welcomed my second child into the world. Not unrelated, I also made an evolution in my career to work in real estate and community development full-time.

Continuing the thoughts I presented in The Why post, I wanted the next iteration of my career and decade of my life to be about creating generational wealth for my family and my community…Growing up for us, our worldview was about scarcity, not abundance.

As we’ve already discussed and will continue to explore, real estate and the built environment is linked to our social, emotional and cultural well-being.

I learned a word recently that perfectly captures how I want my life and work to be described: conviviality. In reference to a group of people, conviviality means “the enjoyment of festive society, festivity”.

Real Estate Transactions as an Affiliate Broker in Tennessee.