'I'm just super excited for there to be more conversation in the world about our built environment.'
My day job is real estate development.
So, I was like,"Well, why don't I sit on that side of the table?" But the only real estate developer in New York I saw doing projects that I thought were inspiring was Two Trees — they own most of DUMBO, the Domino Sugar Factory. And I just really loved that they actually built public schools, they built art festivals, they actually built art galleries, they had actual reasonable rents for creatives, and they cared about the types of apartments they built.
So, I was like,"I get that, I see that, I did a little bit of that at Two Trees, we can do so much more of that." So I started my own company called Built Interest. I actually started it in Berlin because I wanted to see something beyond New York. And at that time Brexit had just happened, so Berlin was the new capital of Europe, which is kind of a crazy thing to hear in the 21st century. So, I thought that would be interesting.
Right now I'm really focused on learning more about apartments that are designed to be shared. And it's threefold. One, it's an affordability issue. It's an access to a home issue, you know? The barrier to entry is too high. So when you put those three together — right now people call it co-living. Which I think as a term can evolve and change and become more nuanced and accurate. Right now in New York there are a lot of players trying to figure that out — and it's by no means a new concept.
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