The more a project costs, the less profitable it will be. Or will it? This session explores a common belief that can diminish a project's returns, if we let it. Learn how to improve the viability of your projects by deploying value drivers that are often overlooked.

Presented by Jennifer Krouse

Do you want to learn more about how you can become a small real estate developer for a project in your neighborhood? Are you an advocate or local leader looking to encourage better buildings in your community?

Join us for a free virtual lecture by IncDev Faculty Neil Heller.

Major new employers like General Motors are creating new jobs in this local market, spurring developers to launch new housing developments, with the risk of collectively over-building. Meanwhile, the town is afraid of "apartments" and beginning to promote alternative formats. What are the possible implication of new job creation, and how does that translate into realistic market opportunities?

Presented by Sharon Woods

Do you want to learn more about how you can become a small real estate developer for a project in your neighborhood?  Are you an advocate or local leader looking to encourage better buildings in your community?

Join us for a lecture by Bruzenskey Bois, Faculty at IncDev Alliance. 

We will walk through the latest Incremental Housing Toolkits put together for Chattanooga thanks to generous support by the Lyndhurst Foundation.

Presented by Elizabeth Ward Williams

Following the One Day Workshop, Out of Hand Theater has partnered with elected officials and affordable housing advocates to develop AHA!: 3, 5-minute narrative vignettes to shed light on the urgent need for affordable housing in Metro Atlanta. The vignettes are designed to engage viewers' emotions through personal stories and represent a diversity of age, race, and reasons for needing affordable housing.

This Workshop on small scale real estate development is all about project formation. We take a big picture view of neighborhood-based development to help attendees analyze what makes a good project, how a building makes money, and how small developers interact with the broader ecosystem of professionals in the built environment.

Codes, markets, and financing can make small mixed-use buildings complicated. This session will explore strategies for creating successful projects that mix housing and commercial uses.

Presented by Richard Price

Actionable ways small towns can be proactive in their development. We'll discuss the hurdles as well as the opportunities from both the community stakeholder and the developers standpoints.

Presented by Jenifer Acosta

We'll walk through the background of Finley Street Cottages and how Atlanta's zoning ordinance was leverage to allow more attainable housing choices without subsidy.

Presented by Eric Kronberg

This Workshop on small scale real estate development is all about project formation. We take a big picture view of neighborhood-based development to help attendees analyze what makes a good project, how a building makes money, and how small developers interact with the broader ecosystem of professionals in the built environment.

In 2019, Durham North Carolina passed a novel zoning reform that permits homes on 2000 SH lots, less than 1/3rd the traditional minimum lot size. Houses can be no larger than 1200sf. Builders immediately shifted towards building these smaller, more affordable homes, in greater quantity. Despite Durham being a red hot market, it's one of the only cities in the America to bend the affordability curve and re-start start home markets. We will walk through the code reform, real world development examples, explain how the reform was done, and how you can copy it to your city.

Presented by Aaron Lubeck

Let's face it: Real estate's number one tool for calculating financial feasibility can be hard to digest. If you struggle to make meaning from the sea of numbers in a pro forma, this session is for you.

Presented by Jennifer Krouse

When small developers or people who want to support small development in their community get together there are a number of common topics that get hashed over and complained about. Things your place does, or doesn’t do, that make it a tougher climate for the small operator, and especially for the first time developer. So what’s the solution, since crying in our beer over them isn’t improving anything?

Presented by Ivy Vann

This topic focuses on the significance of fostering positive relationships with tenants in small-scale developments to minimize turnover, reduce vacancy rates, and enhance property value. Attendees will gain insights into proactive communication strategies, conflict resolution techniques, and tenant engagement initiatives.

Presented by Bruzenskey Bois

Real estate developers can accelerate projects and deliver lovable architecture at an economical price point with the help of stock plans (a/k/a "house plans"). But how is it done? Join us as we lead you through a sample project drawn from real life.

Presented by Jennifer Krouse

In this session we’ll start with the very basics: what do you need to know to start looking for a project. We’ll talk about likely rents; how to find out who owns a building; zoning codes and why they matter; who can tell you no and who can tell you yes. If you’ve been resisting the call to small development, this session’s for you.

Presented by Alli Thurmond Quinlan

This Workshop on small scale real estate development is all about project formation. We take a big picture view of neighborhood-based development to help attendees analyze what makes a good project, how a building makes money, and how small developers interact with the broader ecosystem of professionals in the built environment.

A crash course in winning hearts and minds towards the concrete steps your leaders have to make to allow you build solvent, livable, and lovable places. Join Strong Town’s Edward Erfurt in a rousing run through Strong Ethos, policy platforms, and most convincing arguments.

Presented by Edward Erfurt

People start to think about maybe buying a building for all sorts of reasons. Maybe your town is desperate for more housing and you think, well, I could create a triple out of that house. Maybe you know someone with a great idea for a small business but they can’t afford to buy a building and start a business and there’s nothing downtown that will work for them. Maybe you keep walking by an empty building and thinking somebody ought to do something with that place before it falls down. Maybe you’d like to create a permanent income stream for your household in case of income droughts.

Presented by Ivy Vann

This Workshop on small scale real estate development is all about project formation. We take a big picture view of neighborhood-based development to help attendees analyze what makes a good project, how a building makes money, and how small developers interact with the broader ecosystem of professionals in the built environment.

Do you want to learn more about how you can become a small real estate developer for a project in your neighborhood? Are you an advocate or local leader looking to encourage better buildings in your community?

Join us for a free virtual lecture by IDA Faculty.

Fire sprinklers have been required in multifamily housing since 2000, giving us plenty of data from the NFPA to assess how they've impact the health, safety, and welfare of housing occupants. Let's talk through relative fire danger and risk in multi family vs single family housing, how to improve safety without incredible cost, and what some municipalities are doing to find solutions to affordable housing without fire sprinklers.

Our one-day Workshops on small scale real estate development are all about project formation. We take a big picture view of neighborhood-based development to help attendees analyze what makes a good project, how a building makes money, and how small developers interact with the broader ecosystem of professionals in the built environment. By the end of the Workshop, aspiring developers will feel more prepared to take the first steps on their own project.

Join us with Urban Strategies | LandUseUSA for a quick refresher on the Target Market Analysis (TMA) approach to housing and retail studies, plus a 2023 example from Downtown Lansing, Michigan (30 minutes). Then, learn from Shophouse Studio on how to apply STEP Cards © and translate local opportunities into attainable building formats for small scale developers. We will show you how to STEP beyond the analytics with creative strategies for building small scale projects and achieving incremental success (30 minutes). This session will include time for questions and answers (30 minutes), plus TMA takeaways for participants who complete a survey afterwards.

It is with pleasure that we announce the Small Developer Seminar is now open to the public! Potential small developers, investment partners, or small development ecosystem champions should attend. Aspiring developers will feel more prepared to take the first steps on their own project. This Seminar meets the required prerequisite for the IDA Boot Camp. View event for details.