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In this UCLA Luskin Lecture, experts in housing and real estate discuss what they and others are doing to address the challenges of limited wealth, investment, and ownership in Black communities, and to improve housing opportunities in those neighborhoods.

This December will mark NEOO Partners Inc.’s five-year anniversary, something the founders—D’Angelos Svenkeson and Denetrick Powers—could not have envisioned when they first started.

In this episode, D’Angelos Svenkeson, CEO of NEOO Partners Inc., talks to F&C reporter Brian Johnson. Svenkeson talks about his real estate journey, as well as challenges and opportunities in the larger Minneapolis-St. Paul real estate market.

“My team affectionately calls me ‘chief risk taker’ because I will say yes to most opportunities that have hair on them. They’re complicated. They’re nuanced. They have a racial tinge to it to where people have very hard conversations to have. And I’m like, so what? We’re here to solve hard problems,”

With a passion for urban planning and a commitment to empowering small black businesses, Svenkeson has made a significant impact in the commercial real estate industry.

A Win in Rochester

Mayor Emily Larson announced a partnership with the Duluth Library Foundation on a process for a community-informed predesign for conversion of the Downtown Library to a multi-purpose, regional community service center.

North Minneapolis is losing Aldi and Walgreens for very different reasons, but no matter the cause, the community needs retailers to return.

Changing the Landscape

Georgia and Cerresso Fort are staples of St. Paul’s East Side Community; a power couple who are considered trailblazers in their respective fields.

After two years of working out of coffeeshops, in early 2020 prospects were looking up for D’Angelos Svenkeson and his startup commercial real estate and planning firm, NEOO Partners, just before they got terrible.