Jenifer Acosta
Rethinking Generational Wealth: Building a ...

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?

Rethinking Generational Wealth: Building a Brighter Future Together
Jenifer Acosta
The Bottom Up Revolution | Jenifer Acosta: ...

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.

The Bottom Up Revolution | Jenifer Acosta: Giving New Life to Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods
Jenifer Acosta
Mitten Money Podcast

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.

Mitten Money Podcast
Jenifer Acosta
Shoreside Beer Garden coming to Bay City ...

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.

Shoreside Beer Garden coming to Bay City riverfront
Jenifer Acosta
Dust off your Vacant Uppers

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.

Dust off your Vacant Uppers

Women Entrepreneurs Helping Shape the Future of Detroit

Women Entrepreneurs Helping Shape the Future of Detroit

According to a 2015 estimate by industry group Commercial Real Estate Women, women make up just 32 percent of all real estate development jobs in the United States. But that number represents an increase of 60 percent since 2000.

A recent article in Crain’s Detroit Business explored the ways in which women in development in Michigan are making their mark on the industry and the state—including a number of revealing and informative quotes from women who are on the front lines in shifting demographics and outdated assumptions in this traditionally male-dominated space.

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eleven thirteen center

I had an hour between meetings last year and decided to take a drive through Bay City’s Center Avenue Historic District. In particular, I was thinking of developing a small-scale infill project and wanted it to be in close proximity to downtown and other projects I’ve worked on.

I’ve driven down Center Ave countless times, but that day this vacant parcel with concrete slabs jumped out at me. It’s located at the corner of Center and Sherman. A large 100’ x 100’ parcel with the unsightly remains of a gas/auto shop. It’s walkable to Downtown Bay City, about a half a mile away. I called the realtor listed on it’s for sale sign and started digging for information. It has been for sale for 10 years.

Developer eyes historic Saginaw building for $17.9 million boutique hotel

SAGINAW, MI --  A group of real estate investors are taking the first steps to examine the historic Bearinger Fireproof Building for redevelopment.

Developer Jenifer Acosta, who made her mark in Bay City renovating the old Bay City Times building into luxury apartments, is proposing the Saginaw building at 126 N. Franklin be redeveloped into a 76-room boutique hotel with 4,000-square-feet of restaurant and commercial space.

Jenifer Acosta Real estate developer, Jenifer Acosta Development

Company: Jenifer Acosta Development

Title: Real estate developer

Age: 34

Years in development/real estate: Two

Education: Southern Illinois University, undergraduate; University of Miami, master's; New York University, graduate certificate in real estate development.

Real persistence: Men dominate real estate development, but women make inroads

Years after Susan Harvey was hired in the mid-1990s to lead the Canton Township office of Ashley Capital, a New York City-based industrial and warehouse space powerhouse, the man who had brought her on board confided the one concern he had at the time: That she was "too nice" to be successful in the male-dominated real estate development industry.

She's proven him wrong.