On August 23, 2018, I made the faithful decision to end my Urban Design Center consultancy practice of 28 years and emerge as a center for resilient innovation, development and enterprise. Efforts will manifest through collaborative investment strategies and pooled human capital structured to revitalize communities and build legacy wealth.Transformed through a tapestry of "Resilient Communities" podcast presentations and professional development forums paired with online and small group briefings, Urban Design Center will fuse collaborative energies, capacities and partnerships of vested concerns to construct visionary development projects and to propel enterprise ventures to maximum commercialization. We will create a network for the band of change makers working to preserve and advance the economic vitality of the places that create our legacies and blossom who we are, how we live and what we experience.The Time is Now.We hear the words:Gentrification - Displacement - Moved Out - Bought Out - Sold Out - Dilapidated - Blighted - TransitioningThese words can only become descriptors of our reality if we empower their benefactors with inaction and malign neglect. We can derail the trajectory of their impact by leveraging our common interest and redefining the narrative:Bought By Us, Envision By Us, Built By Us, Preserved By Us, Created By Us, Owned By Us It Will Be Our Legacy - Powered By YOU!Urban Design Center: Relaunching November 2018Join Us! Click below https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddg6Hgur53sQx5Bx7KbaS6m8GtSczKfHhqS8OO4h_0dfUhjg/viewform?usp=sf_linkSherri Franklin, CEOUrban Design Center