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.
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...
