crowdsourcing a creative economy in Arlington
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Neil Takemoto
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Neil Takemoto's Groups
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Cozone at the Artisphere…
7 members
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Artisphere
23 members
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Coworking
29 members
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Outdoor Cafe Scene
5 members
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University Students
3 members
Neil Takemoto's Discussions
We need help finding a venue for March 5 event!
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jason Rylander Feb 18, 2009.
Creative Arlington Overview: Phase II
Started Feb 4, 2009
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- What is your interest in the Creative Arlington beta community?
- Help Arlington grow a creative economy.
- How do you or would like to use your imagination and original ideas to enrich the economy and culture in Arlington, and beyond?
- Crowdsourcing cool places for creatives.
- Website
- http://www.cooltownbeta.com
- Bio (html accepted)
- Neil Takemoto is the founding director of CoolTown Beta Communities, a crowdsource-based placemaking and economic development firm codeveloping natural cultural districts with creatives. His work over the last 14 years has been committed to the development of places with significant economic, environmental and social benefit, currently working in Syracuse, New Orleans and Washington DC.
Neil is the founder of CoolTown Studios, a ‘crowdsourcing cool places for creatives’ blog/news site that attracts 30,000 unique visitors a month. It has been featured in Architect Magazine and the ULI’s annual developers conference.
He is also the cofounder of CoolTown Investments, linking investors with developers of urban smart growth developments for the creative class. CoolTown Investments’ partner is a capital management company with a $150M resource seeking to invest $2-$10M in equity in redevelopment projects in second/third tier cities in the eastern half of the U.S.
With Andres Duany, Neil co-founded the National Town Builders Association in 1997, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field.
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Creative coworking space being crowdsourced in the Artisphere!
Posted on March 17, 2010 at 5:00pm
Coworking space in DC featured on local NBC and Fox News
Washington DC coworking space, Affinity Lab in Adams Morgan, was featured in the local NBC News story, Affinity Lab Helps Dreamers (above) on Monday, March 2, 2009, and the Fox News story, Despite Economy, Some Businesses… Continue
Posted on February 16, 2009 at 2:00pm
'The Economics of a Good Party'
How does art and culture translate into economic value? Elizabeth Currid, author of The Warhol Economy presents an invaluable scientific view on an industry regarded as anything but in her article, The Economics of a Good Party: Social Mechanics and the… Continue
Posted on February 3, 2009 at 1:30pm
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