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

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN REDEVELOPER WINS HISTORIC PRESERVATION AWARD FOR HER FIRST PROJECT

Bay City is a city of about 35,000 people in Bay County, Michigan, located near the base of Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron.

Now, the Michigan Historic Preservation Network has given the first completed project of a local redeveloper, Jenifer Acosta, the Tax Credit Project Award.

The award is given to “an outstanding building preservation completed within the past three years,” for her preservation of the old Bay City Times office and flipping it into The Times Lofts, a set of 31 completely different-looking luxury apartments.

A quest to bring this Romanesque lady back to life

A quest to bring this Romanesque lady back to life

You know how people think of ships and cars as female? That’s the way I think of buildings.

So my heart was broken a year ago when I first stepped out onto the catwalk suspended three stories above Center Avenue between the former Chemical Bank’s “cheese grater” facade and the beautiful, 1890s architecture.

All I could think about was how her original beauty, no longer valued, had been covered up and hidden away. How she hadn’t felt the sunlight on her face for over 50 years.

Times Loft reconstruction project wins Tax Credit Project Award

Times Loft reconstruction project wins Tax Credit Project Award

BAY CITY, MI -- Working at home one day, Jenifer Acosta saw her phone light up. She answered the call, hears the good news and is rushed with excitement. Acosta ran to her mother who was watching her children while she was working to tell her the news she just received. 

Acosta and her company, Jenifer Acosta Development, had just won an award for preserving a historic building in Bay City.

The Times Lofts wins Michigan Historic Preservation Award

The Times Lofts wins Michigan Historic Preservation Award

The Times Lofts is being honored for its outstanding rehab work and for honoring Michigan's heritage. 

The former home of the Bay City Times is now home to thirty one luxury apartments.

The Times Lofts won the tax credit award from The Michigan Historic Preservation Network for effective use of federal and local tax credits to restore historical buildings.

Sharing a vision with your stakeholders is key

Sharing a vision with your stakeholders is key

Redeveloping the 127-year-old Crapo Building located in the heart of downtown Bay City, Mich., began with a business plan one year ago.

Every good business plan should clearly outline the key stakeholders needed to bring a project to fruition. That’s because unless you’re building something entirely at your own risk using personal cash or credit, there’ll be other stakeholders in the mix: local government, banks, investment partners and end users, just to name a few.

In the News: Historic Bay City bank building has a contractor, architect and a restaurant

With a general contractor and award-winning architect secured, a historic bank building in the heart of downtown Bay City is nearly ready for a grandiose redevelopment.

Last month, Jenifer Acosta, the developer looking to transform the 125-year-old Crapo building at Center and Washington avenues into a multi-use structure with residential apartment rentals and commercial space, hired Saginaw-based Spence Brothers as the project's general manager. Quinn Evans Architecture, the same firm that designed renovations to Bay City Hall following a 2010 fire, was also hired for the redevelopment project...