Ilana Preuss founder of Recast City, LLC
Recast City
Plus Arturo O’Farrell in The Jazz Room
Ilana Preuss of Recast City
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Ilana Preuss, Founder of Recast City
“I believe in the power of local business. I believe in greater opportunity for more people – from big city to rural town. I believe in creating more places we love – everywhere. I believe we create strong resilient local economies by investing in all of these outcomes. And I believe that small-scale manufacturing businesses, and the real estate they occupy, gets us these outcomes.”
Meet Our Guests
My guest today is Ilana Preuss, founder of Recast City, LLC which she’s led for 10 years.
To date, Ilana has worked with 60 communities throughout the United States.
Her commitment is to apply her expertise in smart growth, community reinvestment, real estate analysis, and stakeholder engagement to create more opportunity for more people in more places and to create strong, inclusive, and resilient economies.
Her core beliefs navigate this approach.
Ilana is the author of 2021’s, Recast-Your-City: How to Save your downtown with Small Scale Manufacturing
Today’s subject: how we build stronger communities through small scale manufacturing.
Those of us involved in redevelopment of downtown property and/or economic development generally should pay keen attention to today’s conversation.
Also mentioned in our conversation was the work of author Rachel Slade
... In The Jazz Room
In Part 2 O’Farrell expands his thoughts to discuss the ”Still, Small Voice” that we as a people share and the non-profit organization he formed to benefit out of work performers of all genres during the Covid 19 quarantine.
Learn more about Arturo at https://www.auturoofarrill.com.
Episode starts at 32:50