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Evanston business incubator seeks to open doors for Black entrepreneurs
By: Melissa Renee Perry WBEZChicago In 2018, cousins Jacqui White and Tosha Wilson had an idea to open a laundromat-meets-cafe business in Evanston’s historically Black fifth ward. They would name it The Laundry Cafe, TLC for short. White and Wilson envisioned TLC as...
Fix Development’s Solidarity Economy
BY ELLY FISHMAN Fast Company It was the call Juli Kaufmann had dreaded, and it came just one week before the activist-turned-real-estate-developer planned to break ground on her $10 million, 16,500-square-foot project. The building, called The Aux, was pitched as a...
Milwaukee Rotary Club: Juli Kaufmann – Fix Development
The story of Fix Development is about the belief, in the face of many industry naysayers, that commercial real estate projects with a triple bottom line- social, environmental and economic impacts- can be not only financially successful, but also generate the...