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

In the News: Bay City DDA board approves Wenonah Park pavilion project

The controversial Wenonah Park pavilion project took a step forward Wednesday morning with the Bay City Downtown Development Authority Board of Directors throwing its support behind building the structure.

The vote of support was expected, but it was not unanimous. At its meeting Wednesday morning, Dec. 14, at the Doubletree Hotel, the DDA board voted 9-2 in favor of building a 5,000-square-foot, multi-use, double-roofed pavilion, which could double as an ice skating rink, in the southeast corner of the downtown park. The pavilion, which officials said at the meeting "would likely cost less than $1 million," is being funded by an initial $1 million donation from the Nickless Family Charitable Foundation...

In the News: Controversial Wenonah Park pavilion project draws big crowd

More than 125 people for and against a pavilion being built in Wenonah Park gathered in a hotel ballroom Wednesday evening to share their support and opposition of the project.

The public meeting, held at the Doubletree Hotel, attracted a crowd that was essentially split down the middle on the controversial project...

In the News: Developer closes purchase of historic Bay City bank building for $25,000

More than two years ago, Bay City businessman Art Dore bought the former PNC Bank building at Center and Washington avenues in downtown Bay City for $100,000.

At the time, real estate officials called the sale of the 85,000-square-foot building "the definition of value."

That sale was bested this week...

In the News: The Times Lofts, Bay City's newest apartment complex, takes shape

Looking out a second-story window of the former Bay City Times building, Serenus Johnson President Bill Woolwine Jr. experienced one of those "full circle" moments.

It was nearly 25 years ago that Woolwine was working as a laborer for the Bay City-based construction company, building a new unheated storage addition to the west side of the former newspaper building...

In the News: National Park Service OKs removal of metal facade on historic Bay City building

A portion of the historic Crapo building's original facade was all that officials from the National Park Service needed to see in order to put the downtown Bay City building on its National Register of Historic Places and allow a redevelopment project to move forward.

Last month, officials from the Park Service determined the building's original facade made it eligible for the National Register. That allows Jenifer Acosta, the developer looking to transform the 125-year-old building at Center and Washington avenues into a multi-use structure with residential apartment rentals and commercial space, to go after about $2 million in federal tax credits for the $11.6 million redevelopment project...

In the News: See a time lapse of crews removing "cheese grater" facade from historic Crapo Building

Workers finished removing a section of the 1960's-era metal facade on the Crapo building, formerly Chemical Bank, at 213 Center Ave. in Bay City on Wednesday, revealing the building's historic 125-year-old brick exterior.

Crews from Bay County-based Serenus Johnson began their work Monday, were delayed by rain on Tuesday and worked through light showers Wednesday to tear off the metal exterior facade on the side of the building that faces Washington Street...

In the News: Historic Bay City building avoids wrecking ball, lands developer

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...

In the News: Times Lofts developer unveils rendering of luxury apartment building

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...