Neighborhood Futures: Rebuilding Our Aging Neighborhoods for Fun & Profit

First meeting of the Neighborhood Redevelopment Task ForceWe invite your comments & participation. please comment below!AI generated Notes - Full Transcript Available Abovetitles* Revitalizing Suburbia: A Community Call to Action* Building Resilient Neighborhoods from the Ground UpSound Bites* "Our neighborhoods are falling down around us."* "We have to learn to govern ourselves again."* "We need to plant seeds in lots of places."summary In this episode of Neighborhood Futures, hosts Miles

On October 8, #DoSomethingDay, ThisOldNeighborhood.Net & FoundersForKamala held a Town Hall Meeting for Condominium Owners of America, asking the question: How Do We Redevelop Our Aging Neighborhoods & How Do We PAY For It?This was the first, organizational meeting, for a series of Town Meetings, organized by ThisOldNeighborhood.Net and Civic.Net. Our goal is to organize a Civic Internet, a network of Civic Forums, and a Neighborhood Engineering Task Force focused on Redeveloping the Buildings,

AI Summary & Transcript from Today’s DiscussionSummaryIn this conversation, Miles Fidelman, Greer Swiston, and John McNulty discuss the challenges and considerations of buying and living in condominiums. They highlight the need for redeveloping aging suburban neighborhoods and the importance of long-term planning and reinvestment. The conversation emphasizes the importance of educating buyers about the responsibilities and potential issues of condo ownership. They also discuss the role of condo

I just had a wonderful chat with Marcus Lewis - a fellow owner at Nagog Woods, also a Board Member, operator of our tennis facilities, and member of the informal working group we have coming together to take a big-picture, long-term look at the future of our aging condo complex. We were joined by a long term-resident of the condo, who has also served as a board member.So far… it seems like we’re on the right track - and our discussion pretty much jibed with my big-picture conversation with Jerry

On July 1, I talked with Jerry Mechling about How we Pay to Renovate Suburbia. Jerry worked for John Lindsay in NY, Served as Kevin White’s Budget Director in Boston, then went on to the Kennedy School & the Gartner Group. We had a far reaching conversation on the challenges facing America’s suburban communities, and approaches to addressing them.Here is a recording of the session, along with a transcript, and some (surprisingly good) AI-generated high points:Miles Fidelman and Jerry Mechling

Good Morning, and Welcome to today's installment of This Old Neighborhood, and my continuing journey to rebuild suburbia, the Internet Way.For those of you just tuning in, My Name is Miles Fidelman, and I'm Coming to you from my Home in Acton Massachusetts, where I'm preparing for some much-overdue home renovation. Unfortunately, we live in a Condominium Complex. We need a major update to all of our buildings, grounds, and facilities, and to get there, we need to work together, as co-owners &