Speaker(s) / Instructor(s) Biography
Ilana Preuss is the Founder of
Recast City LLC, a consulting firm that works with real estate developers, city and other civic leaders to integrate space for small-scale producers into redevelopment projects and place-based economic development. She is passionate about making great places and sees that small-scale manufacturers are a missing piece in today’s real estate and economic development efforts.
With over 20 years of experience in community development, Ms. Preuss projects at Recast City span the country – from Washington, D.C. to Honolulu, HI. Through work with real estate developers, foundations, city planning and economic development offices, and mayors, the projects go from idea to plan to action to build great places with vibrant economies. Her forthcoming book, Recast Your City, will be released by Island Press in 2021. In 2017, Ms. Preuss co-authored,
Made in PLACE: Small-scale manufacturing and placemaking, in partnership with Smart Growth.