1:03 - His ambitions for Invest Detroit

2:05 - What he plans to do with the New Markets Tax Credits Invest Detroit was just awarded.

A breakdown of the episode:

5:45 - How the changing economic environment impacts his organization

7:45 - Why he’s concerned about the future of commercial real estate in the next few years

9:30 - Where the next wave of investor interest will be in Detroit

13:35 - How Invest Detroit is expanding in target neighborhoods

15:30 - When he would get involved on the developer side of commercial real estate

16:45 - Why Invest Detroit created the Ebiara fund

18:55 - What development tools does he wish were accessible in Michigan that aren’t yet

21:10 - Why he supports reform on tax policy

24:10 - How has development financing changed in the last decade

30:30 - His biggest failure in business and how he overcame it

1:00 - Why she doesn't have a cell phone

1:30 - Her latest vision for Midtown

4:30 - Challenges for the neighborhood and how to keep people in homes

9:45 - Why the pandemic didn't Midtown as bad as other areas

11:30 - Her desire to preserve buildings as part of redevelopment

16:05 - Balancing preservation with new construction

18:10 - How Cass Corridor became Midtown

21:55 - Her succession plan

22:30 - What's still on her bucket list

24:35 - Her biggest failure in business and how she overcame it.

1:20 - Housing shortage issues and questions of a new recession

2:45 - The state of the office market

4:05 - Converting office space into residential

7:00 - A glut of office space in the suburbs

8:05 - Rising rents

9:00 - An example from Calgary

11:05 - What happens when office leases start to come up

15:25 - The interview with Mason Ailstock begins