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Podcast: Transforming Cities
Episode: Jonathan Berk of Patronicity
Description: On this episode I’m speaking with Jonathan Berk. Since 2016 he’s served as a Director at the Detroit-based placemaking startup Patronicity, and their new Placemaking Advisory firm, Bench Consulting, supporting hundreds of community-driven placemaking projects across the country. Jonathan is also the co-founder of Retail Reimagined, an organization leveraging creative collaborations and innovative solutions to bring a new vibrancy to vacant storefront spaces and main streets.
Jonathan is a placemaker and New Urbanist in every sense of the word with a voracious appetite for studying and learning about new methods of community and economic development from arou...