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Neil Takemoto
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- What is your interest in joining the GreenDC social network?
- To help people crowdsource green places, events and scenes, such as the Elements green vegetarian restaurant.
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- 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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- http://www.cooltownbeta.com
- How are you going green? :)
- No car!
- What kinds of places/scenes/events does DC need to really go green?
- Crowdsourcing green places, like Elements and green housing in Columbia Heights and H Street.
- Who referred you? (Live Green, Green Drinks, name of person - this is how we give credit!)
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Neil Takemoto's Blog
Green Jobs Expo
The Green Jobs Expo will showcase the many pathways to green jobs and careers. Free and open to the public, the Expo is this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Posted on February 6, 2009 at 9:30am —
The first coworking space for green businesses? A model for DC?
There's no question what the first green business incubator is - it's the Environmental Business Cluster in San Jose in 1994, christened by then Vice President Al Gore and still going strong. However, as you can see by its website (and the fact it started in a subur… Continue Posted on December 5, 2008 at 12:00pm —
DC's first green condo crowdsourcing project announced!
Following the announcement of a green home crowdsourcing program in July 2008, Taurus Enterprise Group, led by president Gail Montpl… Continue
Posted on September 8, 2008 at 3:00pm —
First bike sharing program in the U.S. launches in DC!
For a city with such a reputation for bureaucracy, it's perhaps a sign of the new times that Washington DC is the first city in the U.S. to have a modern, city-wide bike sharing program, open for use as of August 13, 2008. It's the same system used in Barcelona, and inspired by the… Continue
Posted on August 20, 2008 at 10:41am —
Can DC follow NYC's street closing lead?
Thanks to Streetfilms!
August 9, 2008 will go down in history as the beginning of Manhattan's transformation in becoming a truly pedestrian-oriented city. Through their Summer Streets program, they held the first of three street closings to cars along seven miles through the heart of the city. How'd it go? Read the quotes belo… Continue
Posted on August 20, 2008 at 10:30am —
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