Imagine a world where the dream of owning a home, once a cornerstone of the American Dream, is slipping away. Today, many families find themselves caught in a cycle where the opportunity to build wealth for future generations is disappearing right before our eyes. It's a troubling trend that begs the question: Are we making the American Dream impossible for the next generation?
Today’s guest on The Bottom-Up Revolution podcast is Jenifer Acosta, a community revitalizer and incremental developer working in the Tri-Cities region of Michigan, near the shores of Lake Huron. Her focus is on adaptive reuse projects—taking historic structures like old bank and newspaper buildings and turning them into updated housing and commercial spaces. She finds that sweet spot between preserving history while also modernizing and allowing these old buildings to take on new life so they can last another hundred years, even as the needs of a community change.
William Zank has a conversation with Jenifer Acosta, founder and President of Jenifer Acosta Development. Building dynamic communities and creating a sense of place are just two of Jen’s favorite things. Combine them and add a dash of determination, and you have one of the region’s most sought-after “matchmakers” in real estate.
Downtown Restaurant Investments, Jenifer Acosta Development and Mission Partners are launching a new beer garden and food truck park called Drift Shoreside Beer Garden located at 1019 N. Water St. in Bay City.
You know your downtown is hiding them everywhere. No need to be ashamed. Mine is too. It can be hard enough to get an owner to make the windows look simply presentable from the street view and here I am asking you to do more.
It’s time to get serious about the levels above your Main Street.
One of the landmark structures of downtown Bay City, the historic Crapo building, is likely being saved from the wrecking ball.
After months of working behind the scenes to see if revitalizing the 125-year-old building at the intersection of Center and Washington avenues was feasible, a local developer who's quickly making a splash in downtown Bay City redevelopment projects has gone public with plans to bring the Pratt and Koeppe-designed building back to its original glory...
Developers who are transforming the former Bay City Times building downtown into a luxury, loft-style apartment complex have unveiled a rendering of what the building will look like this fall.
Since April, crews have been demolishing the inside of the former newspaper building, 311 Fifth Street, that was built in 1910. The adaptive re-use project will convert the old building into 31 residential loft apartments, with units varying from a 590-square-foot one-bedroom to 1,625-square-foot three-bedroom. The project includes conventional apartments, in addition to multi-level and townhouse style units, each reflecting the historic components of the building's architecture...
Nestled away in the woods of Midland, Jenifer Acosta works in front of a computer screen in her chic home office that looks like it was torn from the pages of a Crate and Barrel catalog.
Less than 30 miles east is a city she calls authentic. A place where "salt of the earth people" live and work. A place that has seen better days, but also a place with energy...
The former Bay City Times building has a new owner, and soon it could have new tenants, too.
Rod HildebrantCourtesy Photo
Rod Hildebrant, CEO of Bay City-based Home and Hospice Advantage, owns the LLC that purchased the property at 311 Fifth St. on Monday, Oct. 5. Hildebrant said he paid about $500,000 for the property.
Grand Rapids-based Signature Associates and Bangor Township-based Commercial Equities handled the sale of the property...
