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The Center for Community and Economic
Development at Michigan State

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Universities podcast.

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Transforming Tomorrow Together Today
creates informative episodes in

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collaboration with MSU faculty, students,
community leaders, change makers,

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and stakeholders that highlight
innovative tools, models, policies,

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and professional insights to Co create
sustainable prosperity and more equitable

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economies with communities.

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I'm your host, Marys and Brennan,
Assistant Director of the Center.

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The views discussed during this podcast
are those of the guest and do not

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represent the opinions of Michigan State
University,

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the Center for Community and Economic
Development,

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or any affiliated organizations.

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Well, good afternoon, everyone.

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I am so thrilled and pleased and
privileged to welcome 3 new guests this

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afternoon from City Craft Foundation.

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And joining me,
I have John L Knott Junior,

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an internationally recognized leader in
urban and regional planning,

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as well as Melissa Hall,
a regenerative system scale strategist,

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and Brent Forsberg,
Board member for City Craft.

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So we're going to dive right in.

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I want to kick it off and say,
what is City Craft,

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what is the foundation,
and what are you guys doing in Southwest

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Lansing?

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Who wants to start I'll let Brent start
because he's the one who brought me here

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I'm really excited.

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The City Craft Foundation is built on
what's known as the regenerative values,

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the idea of creating more in the future
than there is today in our communities.

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I met John through the University of
Denver.

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I was one of his students.

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And as we talked about how we change the
mindset of communities,

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the values that city Craft talks about,
about creating those strong connections

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and building the cross collaboration
between groups and finding ways to create

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more opportunity.

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Local.

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Really aligned with what Lansing has been
working on for years,

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which is trying to build this model of
stronger connections here and creating

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more opportunities for the people in the
Lansing area.

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So I was really excited to,
as our work started focusing on Lansing

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and John coming in and starting to look
at the whole ecosystem of Lansing,

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to be able to have him come into our
community to really start digging in deep.

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And our first major project for building
these connections is in Southwest Lansing.

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Brett, are you from this area?

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Yeah.

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So my family's been in the the Lansing
area for a long time.

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I've been working in the Lansing area in
development for over 25 years now.

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And the focus has always been how do we
bring community together around the

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places where we live,
our built environment.

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And that is core to how city craft works
and why the alignment was so great.

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And I'm so happy to be a part of City
Craft and also see the collaboration

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that's building around it in the Lansing
area.

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So tell me, John,
what is the connection then Brent

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mentioned University of Denver.

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How does City Craft Foundation play into
this?

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What is the foundation and where?

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How does Colorado roll in?

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And then what are you doing here in
Michigan as a resident of Philly?

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Gets complicated.

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OK, Well,
I've only been a resident of Philly for

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like the six,
six or seven years when I was prior to

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that a resident of Charleston,
SC for 30 years.

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And then so I guess the the best way to
explain this is our work has evolved over

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the last 40 years.

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Our largest system scale project that we
launched was at the city of North

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Charleston, the Old Navy Yard area,
which was one of the most impoverished

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areas of the entire state.

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And the city have been trying for 40
years to turn a lot of these things

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around in that area.

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And we were approached about addressing
what we had done at the Weeds Island and

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my other urban work.

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And as we developed the relationship with
the city and the master plan process for

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that community,
the new American City Plan was created

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and has been awarded and recognized
internationally as and still very few,

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few examples of that exist anywhere that
at least that I know of in North America,

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if not other areas.

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And what came out of that planning
process was that in order to restore the

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economic and social fabric and ecological
fabric of a city in these type of areas,

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you really need to go back and look at
the historic framework of this, of,

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of the,
of the land itself and the place over as

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far back as you go there.

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We went back close to 12,000 years.

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And what we do is we study the evolution
of that area,

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which brings us to a point of
understanding the unique history of that

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physical place and the cultures and
people who were there,

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which allows us talking to an
impoverished area,

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to tell a lot of entry stories that are
about the importance of that place and

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how many important people and,
and situations have been brought to life.

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And, and that it's not the place,
it's actually the system itself that

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changed and things need to be rechanged
so the area can be positive and

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productive again.

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And what came out of the master planning
process was two things, a blueprint,

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a physical blueprint for the regenerative
restoration and rebuilding of a city and

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all of its systems,
its ecosystems and it's human built

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infrastructure and life support systems.

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And secondly, the noise, that foundation,
which is now the City Craft Foundation,

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because we realize that the people
themselves who were there are not part of

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the solution,
not part of understanding this and

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actually building this place and
understanding the benefits of

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sustainability,
regenerative systems in their own lives.

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It will never hold.

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So the foundation was created to create
and address the institutional and social

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framework of a city,
to rebuild that in a way that can hold it.

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So if you look at City Craft Ventures at
the time was the for profit and the

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foundation nonprofit City Craft Ventures,
the planning and development organization

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to stand up the physical place in
partnership with the city and the

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community.

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And the foundation was the social vehicle
to rebuild the institutional framework

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that then led to us expanding beyond that
area and at the recast of numerous cities.

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And the next larger scale system was
Denver and in the,

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we were invited there to look at the
another areas in Denver and settled on

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the West Denver area around the Sun
Valley.

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And so that area we were working there
and developing in the doctor Barb Jackson,

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who is the head of the School of real
Estate and construction management at the

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Universe Universes Denver Daniels College
School of Business had met me and said,

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you need to be teaching here.

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And that's how I got to teach,
start teaching.

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And I, I told her, I said, well,
I don't have an advanced degree,

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since you have more advanced degrees and
than anybody else,

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because you've done more,
you need to be teaching here and I'll

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help you learn how to deal with the
syllabus and all that.

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And so as a result of that,
we started this city craft graduate

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program there.

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And following that,
about three years later, I started,

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I was asked to write a book with three
other professors from Regis University in

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Denver.

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And we published in 2019 the first
Regenerative Urban Development textbook

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with Rutledge Press that we're using
today and has been used in a lot of other

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places as well.

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And that's How I Met Brent.

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And then he was part of my class,
is one of my best students.

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He was my TA for two years and asked me
if I would consider coming to Lansing and

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integrating City Craft with his work and
make that part of his business and his

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family's work.

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And that's how I got there.

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And then just this thing has been going
growing for five or six years now.

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We've shifted our graduate program to
this to Michigan in terms of its focus

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that our students work to study and to
actually work on real projects in real

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places.

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And that's how we uncovered the Great
Lakes basin as the bio reason that we

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were in through that,
through this through the students and

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developed numerous programs and and
recommendations for healing,

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not just Southwest Lansing that that was
the end of the story.

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But we are always looking for once we
figured out that this made a lot of sense

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and a sense of the Great Lakes basin is
the third largest economy in the world.

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And so you could Brent could actually be
local and still be international and be

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national because within 450 miles to have
of last and you have the third largest

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economy in the world.

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And I felt very strongly that Lansing
itself could become the regenerative beta

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Research Center and,
and leader in the United States and how

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you turn the city into a regenerative hub
and help lead the effort within the Great

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Lakes Basin itself.

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Thank you.

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And Melissa,
now your background is coming from

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General Motors, is that right?

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Correct.

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And how did you get involved with City
Craft Foundation?

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I'm starting to understand the term,
the name now a little bit more city craft.

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It's making sense.

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So tell me about yourself.

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Well,
Ingham County Land Bank through their

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emerging developer program,
Roxanne was the one that told me to

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connect with Brent and to learn more
about development.

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And I went to Brent and what I told him
was my background from General Motors and

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what my skill set was.

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And what I asked him is what could I help
you with?

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And in turn,
I can learn more about development.

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The thing I did not realize is that City
Craft was working on a project for

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Southwest Lansing.

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And the reason why later finding out that
what's so exciting is I come from

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southwest Lansing.

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I grew up on railroad.

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I went to Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Grove,
Pleasant View School,

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and later in life I lived in Colonial
Village and my start there in my younger

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adulthood,
life was kind of not going in the

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direction.

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I wasn't financially sound or anything
like that,

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but the bank I was working for at the
time, Michigan National Bank,

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they taught me some financial tools and
how to use them,

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and it totally turned around my life.

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So when Brett told me what they were
doing for Southwest Lansing and then

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talking to John about his vision,
of course I was 10 toes deep into the

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vision.

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That's powerful.

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So City Craft has this track record then
of transforming deeply distressed urban

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communities,
but beginning with an asset based

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approach,
utilizing the inherent strengths in the

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neighborhoods,
leveraging what resources may be

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available, including the human capital,
from whether it's community organizations

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to the public school infrastructure.

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Can you talk a little bit about that and
what local engagement looks like using

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the example of Southwest Lansing?

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I have a long background since I was in
my mid teens working in very distressed

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urban areas as a social working community
organizer as well.

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And what I've learned over the years is
that people look at these areas as

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liabilities as opposed to assets.

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And that's the people as well as the
physical place and the and over time,

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those places are used as dumping grounds
by the public and private sector for the

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things nobody else wants,
which makes it even worse.

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And so because I come from a master
building background where we're taught

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that buildings and communities are
organic systems,

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we're really taught about how to look at
systems and what we,

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what I started to do because of my
experience in those areas,

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there was always all kinds of assets.

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The people were amazing.

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They just didn't have the resources.

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And many of them were in situations where
there were chains around themselves and

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power having chains around the area and
had no control.

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And So what we started to do was realize
if we could first understand the area

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itself and give the people a really good
sense of the story of the place and then

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start engaging with them.

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We have a community engagement process
that has four structures to it versus

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getting to know.

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And we not only tell them the story and
we work.

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We work neighborhood by neighborhood.

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We do not work at scale because what
we've learned in any neighborhood in this

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country, that mother was poor Ridge,
nobody knows each other.

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There's too much trans and see and
there's no real bonding going on.

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And the reason people come together is
because of what they hate,

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not because of what they love.

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And so we really spend the first stage of
them getting to identify what do they

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really like about their place,
what they like and what do they think is

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missing.

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And that we use unbiased questions in
every stage we go through and we kind of

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help them emerge each neighborhood by its
each, each neighborhood on its own,

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a common sense of vision,
a common set of values that they want to

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see their neighborhood lived by.

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And,
and then once we get to the third stage,

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we actually bring all that together and
to bring the people together so they can

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see they're only disagreeing about 10 or
15 or 20% and the 80% they agree on,

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which then builds trust.

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So you have to build trust and connection
at the neighborhood level,

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which then builds trust and connection at
the larger system scale level.

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Once you have that,
then you can move forward with the plan

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and the people themselves can start
living out the plan.

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Even for,
for physical investment of millions of

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dollars are being done.

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And we, we look at, we,
we focus as we're doing this on the

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professional side with a full scan of
every system in the social institutional

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framework, school systems, libraries,
police, prison systems, re entry systems,

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every aspect of that area to try and get
a handle on what's really going on and

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what's disconnected.

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And so the analogy I would give you is
it's,

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I think it's on our website now is the
human body analogy.

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The human body, Mary,
when you go to the doctor,

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whether you're sick or healthy,
the doctor is looking at you as a fully

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integrated Organism that they can assess
all of your systems.

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And so can the specialist.

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If you,
if you apply that analogy to the city and

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it's just any city and the way we operate
in this country,

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what you have to do is you have to take
the parts of the body.

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The heart would be over here that,
you know, the liver would be over there,

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the skeleton structure be someplace else,
the thermal envelope would be someplace

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else in a sense that the bodies laying
dormant on the ground, rotting away.

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And so everybody's trying to fix a
problem that can't be fixed because the

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system,
the organ is the organic system of the

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community is not connected.

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So our job is essentially to look at not
just connecting human beings to

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themselves.

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How do you actually assess the current
condition of that Organism?

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Where are all these parts and how do you
bring them back together and how do you

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connect them?

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So it is actually a living,
breathing Organism that feeds and

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supports each other.

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You're making me think of the idea of
connecting the dots,

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but more but further constellations and
holistic ecosystems, balancing the people,

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planet prosperity, triple bottom line,
so forth.

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Take me through the step by step.

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What is the Southwest Lansing
Regenerative Road Map initiative and how

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does the Lansing Growth Fund weave into
it?

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Let's start with the road map.

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When John talked about the assessment
that City Craft is doing,

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the road map is that plan that's going to
work through the engagement.

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So going through the seven steps of the
City Craft process,

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the first step is collecting the data and
getting all of the information.

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And so right now we've been working on
that.

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The next stage is working into the
community engagement to get those stories

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and the road map as this builds is going
to look at what's the next 10 years of

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growth potentially going to look like for
Southwest Lansing.

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This understanding of the initiatives
that are going on,

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building on the foundation of what's
there,

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and then putting together the structure
that can then work through building that

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large comprehensive plan that John was
talking about that touches all the

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regenerative platforms that allows for
the values of creating more in the future

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to be there than what we have today
through this process.

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So as we walk through the road map over
this next year,

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that's putting that kind of baseline
together to understand where we're at

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today and have that sense from the
community stories and looking at that

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larger system to say,
here are some of the metrics that we're

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going to be looking at that are important.

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Understanding the values of the five
capitals, protecting our ecosystem,

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building the social connections with
people,

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creating opportunities and pathways for
more opportunities for careers in the

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future and keeping wealth local and
growing businesses.

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So that's the the big view of the road
map.

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And if I could put it into a one liner,
that's not a one liner basically.

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We believe,
we believe in community ownership and we

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believe in creating value today that will
leave a gift for generations to come.

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So that's the end result of that road map.

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And Mary,
it's like what John said of the holistic

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view.

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If you were to take a General
practitioner,

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it is that road map comes in and it's
giving an examination like a yearly

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physical when you go to your General
practitioner and it's giving a

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examination that's looking at your
history of your body and then is looking

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at your current condition.

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And then at that point,
your General practitioner practitioner

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will make recommendations like they may
say you need to get with a a physical

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fitness coach because you need to lose a
few pounds.

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Or they may say we're seeing a rhythm in
your heart that we don't like.

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So they connect you with a cardiologist.

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And that's what that road map is doing is
identifying what the past condition was,

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what the current condition is,
and then making the connections to make

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health assessment of making that
community healthy again.

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Again,
it's creating value that will last for

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generations.

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What are the work groups doing?

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How are you implementing this and how can
citizens get involved?

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So the working groups are part,
if you get, I think Mary,

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you have a graphic of what we call the
regenerative platforms,

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the six regenerative platforms of
Citycraft.

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So essentially in the assessment process,
what we're trying to do is 1,

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we want to get an understanding of the
bio region that we're in this area is in,

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which is the Great Lakes bio region and
what the values of the Great Lakes

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basement contact is setting for that
region long term.

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We're then looking,
we look at all the scales all the way

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through to, but to keep this shorter,
we're looking at Southwest Lansing in the

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context of what is its current condition
and all elements of health in their

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buildings, their infrastructure,
their human beings, their natural system,

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all of that.

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And then relating that to the goals of
the bioregion.

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We're also conducting a survey of all the
stories that come out of that place.

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Once we get and, and the condition of,
once we get all of that together,

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we can now talk to people in the
neighborhoods about what those conditions

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are and they can tell us about their
neighborhood and what they want to see.

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So it's an exchange.

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And once we are that,
so the community engagement process is

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we're getting close to where the citizens
of Southwest Lansing can be involved.

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There's lots of citizens and
professionals and NGO people that are

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involved in our working groups.

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And you know,
it's sometimes more is better and more

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more isn't.

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But right now we are encouraging.

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We have, we have 4 working groups.

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I think it is we have one that's we need
to build a data infrastructure.

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So if you look at the one of the other
platforms is the data,

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data data ecosystem,
which is figuring out how do we actually

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put all this information together and how
do we put it into a data system that like

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Melissa said,
you can do an annual check up against

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your plan and events baseline condition
and see how you're doing to get to that

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new future.

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But we have to build the,
we have to get the information and how's

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that infrastructure somewhere where we
can actually work.

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That group is working on that.

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Then we have the human built and natural
capital working group was which is doing

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a complete assessment holistically
overtime of the evolution of this place

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physically and what all those elements
are and what their conditions including

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health.

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We have another working group,
but you are part of which is the the

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financial capital ecosystem group,
which is looking at how much capital is

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coming in,
how much money is coming into the system,

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how much money is being expended in the
system.

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Where is that money going?

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How much of is being exported,
which probably my guess would be close to

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80% is going outside the neighborhoods
and outside that area and maybe 60% gone

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nationally someplace else as opposed to
the money staying in the system and

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actually reinvesting in itself.

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And then the 4th area that we're doing is
a holistic health assessment.

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It is the first time we've actually done
this at this at this scale.

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So we're looking at the the human
physical health, the human mental health,

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the human intellectual health,
psychological health, social health,

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school system health,
building health throughout the area,

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ecosystem health,
all of those elements that impact the

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health of the systems and the people so
that we get a baseline condition for that.

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And our objective at the end of this year
is to be able,

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we're hoping we can actually,
as a result of that information,

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be able to design medical clinics or
doctor's offices in these neighborhoods

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that are specifically designed for the
condition of this community itself,

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not just a generic approach and working
with MSU and the different hospitals.

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And let's figure out how that could be
done.

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And through the Lansing Growth Fund,
we think we can actually fund those

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speaking along the lines of community
investiture,

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how can the community invest in itself
and the places where we live,

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work and play?

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So John had mentioned the Lansing Growth
Fund and this is a tool that we've been

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working on that's based on the idea of
community capital,

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that keeping investment local based on
the values of the community and how the

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community wants to grow.

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And the Lansing Growth Fund is starting
with a project at the corner of Holmes

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and Pleasant Grove,
which is a continuation of the 2016 SW

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Action Plan in Lansing.

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One of the last key objectives,
which is great because it's becoming the

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transition into this road map in the next
10 years of growth in Southwest Lansing

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and how it works is people will be able
to invest into the Lansing Growth Fund,

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which will be a mixture of real estate
and businesses that the community feels

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are important to invest in to help build
the community we're working through right

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now.

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The the regulations of it and getting it
set up, but it'll be,

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it'll have representation from the
community on the board and investors will

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have input into what are the
opportunities that they want to see come

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in Southwest Lansing and be able to use
this investment fund to make those a

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reality.

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And Mary,
I want to add into that when you talk

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about how can the community invest and
help themselves,

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I share with you about my background and
in my younger adulthood of the shakiness

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financially.

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At the time when I was working at
Michigan National Bank,

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they had a program for employees only and
our director had told me about it and it

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was a low entry program where I could
start investing.

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They were taking money out my paycheck.

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It made it the opportunity easy for me to
do even though I was a struggling mom.

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I was.

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I told Brenton the story about during
that time I was breastfeeding my son off

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of 1, breast pumping off the other,
hadn't ate in months, in weeks.

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And I was running back and forth.

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If you know Lansing from the Horrocks
area all the way down to what used to be

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called Capital Commons downtown.

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And I would take all my breaks and
lunches together and breastfeed my baby

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and then run back.

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So financially,
I needed something that would let me

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enter into healing my financial situation,
but it had to be a low entry point.

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And so when I learned about the Lansing
Growth Fund, it is exactly that tool.

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Because many times when we talk about
financial stuff,

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we'll say what it takes for a person to
turn that corner,

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but yet the the items that are being
offered to us is just quite isn't

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obtainable because of the lifestyles.

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So I'm appreciative of the Lansing Growth
Fund because it's something that is in

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reach for whoever.

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It doesn't matter what financial status
you're at.

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So I'm very passionate about it.

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As you can see,
I can go on and on because it talks to

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where I was and it's a equivalent to that
what Michigan National offered employees.

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But this is offered to the public and it
is obtainable to anyone,

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no matter where your financial status is.

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And that concludes the first of our
three-part series on the City Craft

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Foundation,
Lansing Growth Fund and the Southwest

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Lansing Regenerative Road map.

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Join us next month as we explore further
into sustainable circular redevelopment

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on Lansing South Side.