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Gentrification, affordable housing and homelessness in Vancouver's DTES
Vancouver 'micro-lofts' billed as smallest in Canada
A Vancouver developer has unveiled 30 "micro-lofts," which are under 300 square feet in size and are touted as the smallest self-contained furnished rental apartments in Canada.
They are in a newly renovated building at 18 West Hastings Street, across from Save-On Meats in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and were displayed Monday. The suites, which range in size from 226 to 291 square feet, go for an average of $850 per month, including cable and internet.
"I was looking for an affordable living space ... and the suite was perfect," said Lia Cosco, one of the building's tenants. "The unique allocation of space and the design concepts make the small space very inviting and comfortable to live in."
While the suites may seem microscopic to some, the developer says the units maximize the square footage by using built-in pull-down wall beds, folding tables and compact appliances....
The city, along with developers Reliance Properties and ITC Construction Group, are billing the suites as "an affordable and much needed non-subsidized rental housing opportunity in downtown Vancouver."
However, that description doesn't sit well with a handful of protesters who stormed the unveiling on Monday.
"I don't understand how this is part of an affordable housing strategy," said demonstrator Ivan Drury. "This is not an affordable housing strategy. This is a homelessness strategy."
Context: 18 West Hastings used to be the Burns Block hotel, which had a slate of single-resident occupancy units (SROs) for a fraction of the current rent. The hotel was shut down in 2006 for building code violations (a tried and true gentrification strategy--neglect, foreclose, rebuild).
Welfare rates in BC are $610 a month, with $375 allocated for housing (even though most SROs are $425 or more).
Here is Carnegie Community Action Plan's (CCAP) recent report on gentrification and affordable housing:
UPSCALE: The downside of gentrification (2011 CCAP SRO hotel report)
Hotel rooms that used to be the housing of last resort for low income people, are being upgraded and rented to students and young workers at rents that low income residents can't afford. The annual survey of privately owned DTES hotels found that only 7% of rooms (235) are in buildings where all rents are $375 or lower, down from 12% in 2010 and 29% in 2009.
At least 700 people are literally homeless and living in DTES shelters, not counting people living on the streets or couch surfing says the report, released today. Thousands more live in about 3,500 privately owned SRO rooms. Many of these have deplorable conditions with poor management, rodents, cockroaches, bedbugs, and danger, especially for women, transgender people and people with health issues. Another 1,500 people live in government or non-profit owned SROs that are usually cleaner and better managed but are still tiny and don't have private bathrooms or kitchens or meet modern earthquake standards.
I should have voted for Sandy Garossino. If she runs again I will. I'd suggest people read this to understand why: Unaffordable (That's What You Are).
So yeah, I'm not opposed to the 'micro-lofts' per se. On average most people have too much house. Personally, I can't see myself living in a place less than 400 square feet, but to each their own and I kind of like the idea of something that would discourage consumption for the sake of consumption.
I suppose my objection to these places are that they're somehow billed as "affordable." 850$/month, considering the square footage, is not affordable. Granted that includes internet and cable, but even so that's still about $700-ish/month.
If the poverty-line wages for a single person in the region are about 21K/year, this is still well over the suggested "spend a third of your income on rent" advice. That of course doesn't even factor marginalized populations into the mix. But frankly, I feel as if the way things have gotten even middle and working class people are marginalized in this market.
What do developers expect? The average person to go into debt just to finance day-to-day living expenses? The real estate bubble, or better yet pyramid scheme that is Vancouver's real estate market, is not sustainable if Vancouver intends to stay a place where residents actually live (and contribute to society not just a speculative market for global capital looking for something "safe").
I voted for Sandy. Too bad she didn't get in.
Anyways, yeah, in many other neighborhoods in Vancouver, this would be a positive step, but not there. Rich people are often more willing to experiment on "other people's" turf which they consider to be a throwaway anyways..
Yeah, VK, part of the worst and most insidious aspect of this plan is that $850 is still too high for a single-occupant apartment on average or below-avergae wages--but it's pretty damn good for Vancouver. So this pits justly indignant average wage-earners against the low-income residents of the DTES who are normally fighting high-income people and developers. It's a great way to align the city against its poor (as if there's not enough of that going on already).
I saw a CBC vignette on this a couple of days ago and they ended with a quote from a micro-loft resident: "This isn't just a low-income problem, it's an average income problem." Then the voice over said: "And that's the message that gets lost in this protest [against the lofts]". So, CBC, let me get this straight: the low-income people should think of the middle-incomes' problems and weigh their protest accordingly? Why not phrase the story as low-income and middle-income people sharing a common interest and grudge against the developers and city hall? Well--I think we know the answer to that...[/cynicism]
Moving on up: Gentrification in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Gentrification is the social, economic, and cultural transformation of a predominantly low-income neighbourhood through the deliberate influx of upscale residential and commercial development. Encouraged by municipal development policies, economic incentives for investors, and the mythical pull of the creative city, urban land is purchased and developed at low cost for middle-class buyers. As urban theorist Neil Smith writes, "As a generalized urban strategy, gentrification weaves together the interests of city managers, developers and landlords, corporate employers and cultural and educational institutions."...
The processes of neo-liberal urbanism that fuel this kind of gentrification are rooted in the colonial doctrines of discovery and terra nullius, as well as more modernized forms of transnational globalization. As Smith further articulates, "Gentrification has become a strategy within globalization itself; the effort to create a global city is the effort to attract capital and tourists, and gentrification is a central means for doing so."...
Many Downtown Eastside residents describe the impacts of gentrification as deeply traumatic. According to a recent Carnegie Community Action Project report, "Upscale: the Downside of Gentrification," affordable single-room occupancies (SRO) are increasingly scarce. More than half of SROs now rent higher than a person on welfare, disability or pension can afford. New retail shops and restaurants are zones of exclusion, offering goods and services beyond the means of the predominantly low-income residents. Public space has become more uncomfortable and hostile with increasing policing and private security surveillance, as well as constant reports by low-income residents of feeling judged by many of the new owners and consumers in the neighbourhood. As one DTES resident told Save-On-Meats owner Marc Brand in a meeting, "I was treated like a piece of meat in your restaurant."
In cities like Vancouver that purport to be progressive, the violence of gentrification is masked behind a three-fold ideological discourse aimed at giving it an air of reasonableness. First is "urban renewal." This presumes that the downtrodden ghetto will be uplifted and revitalized through social entrepreneurship and trickle-down investment, a now widely discreditedtheory at the global level. Second is the language of "affordability." When peddled by developers such as Marc Williams, Jon Stovell, Robert Fung, and Westbank, it does not mean affordable for current residents. Rather, the affordability is pitched to higher-income buyers and customers such as young artists, students, and professionals, the canaries for whether a neighbourhood will successfully be gentrified.
The third is "social mix." While it sounds inclusive, in reality it means that people with higher-incomes are at liberty to utilize their social capital to alter the demographics of a low-income community. On the one hand, low-income services such as shelters and food banks are systematically expunged from higher income neighbourhoods (why not enforce social mix in rich areas like Shaughnessy?). On the other hand, space in low-income neighbourhoods that could be used for community-based actualization is appropriated by those with greater power and wealth. As geographer Loretta Lees writes, "The rhetoric of 'social mix' hides a gentrification strategy and in that a hidden social cleansing agenda... Over the longer term poor people suffer more from the loss of benefits of living in a poor neighbourhood, than they gain from living in a more affluent one."
Amazing, comprehensive article by Harsha Walia and Dave Diewert. Anyone wanting to know about the effects of gentrification should read this. Perhaps Thomas Mulcair should have given it a read before his housing-plan policy announcement in Woodwards.
On the western edge of the DTES is the massive mixed development at the old Woodward's site/squat with over 500 condos, SFU campus with an arts centre funded by notorious mining giant Goldcorp, and retail stores. This has set off a tidal wave of gentrification within a few blocks, with four new condo developments (Paris Annex, Paris Block, 60 W. Cordova, 21 Doors) and countless restaurants and bars, including those owned by barons Sean Heather (Irish Heather, Salty Tongue, Shebeen, Penn Bakeshop, Everything Café, Fetch Kiosk, Bitter Tasting Room, Judas Goat) and Marc Brand (Diamond, Sharks and Hammers, Boneta, Sea Monstr Sushi, Save on Meats), overpriced coffee shops, and designer stores. In symbiotic fashion, retail stores and cultural sites proliferate alongside new housing, rendering the area more welcoming and familiar for wealthier consumers.
Proposals to build free or low-cost homeless housing said to be 'stalled' by the province. Last of three parts.
Container housing manufacturer MC Quarters offered to build this 43-suite supportive housing complex on a city-owned site at the corner of Princess Avenue and Powell Street. The Vancouver-based company offered to donate the cost of the container-based housing units, and help raise the estimated $1.6 million required for on-site construction.
Last summer, Vancouver City Council invited several B.C.-based companies to submit ideas about how modular housing might be employed to house the homeless.
Three container-based proposals were among the five submitted. One firm offered to build a 43-suite supportive housing complex at no cost to taxpayers. Another offered to lease dormitory-style rooms for only $350 a month. Yet another offered to build a similar project from scratch using local labour at its Coquitlam factory....
eta: this was an opportunity to do something that was needed and didn't reward the developers. both the city and the province fucked it up royally and blamed each other. they are both negligent to the highest order.
..........Downtown Eastside Goes Up Against City Hall Face to Face on April 17
The Drill
In the semblance of procedure that the City of Vancouver throws up as routine barrier to recalcitrant residents, there may be three opportunities for ordinary people to convey their views on a particular development proposal.
1 At the very beginning, when a developer sponsors an "open house" and gathers opinion.
2 At a public hearing before Council, but only if the development seeks change in zoning.
3 At the very end, when prepared plans go to the Development Permit Board for signoff.
All of these pro forma "opportunities" are essentially meaningless. Sometimes, desperate residents can make a point that magically becomes incorporated into a plan. Why anything happens is never clear. The few changes ever achieved amount to tweaks applied to the determinative designs that emanate from backroom collaboration between planning staff and developers....
Carrall and Hastings, just shy of Pigeon Park, in the heart of Vancouver's grim Downtown Eastside. I'm walking home from Gastown with my two young boys, aged six and three. As we approach, a rough looking woman makes a clumsy attempt to hide her crack pipe.
"Kids on the street," she yells up and down the block, "Kids on the street!"
A few of the other dodgy characters try to hide their drugs, too, or shuffle a few steps into the alley until we pass. I smile and thank her. She smiles back, dirty and toothless and old before her time, but it's clear that she's happy to see the children, and she tells me my kids are cute. My boys, as usual, fail to notice most of this: the drugs, the mental illness, the human wreckage all around them. This is probably for the best, growing up, as they are, next to the worst neighbourhood in Canada.
For the past six years, our family has lived just around the corner from the worst stretch of Vancouver's notorious East Hastings Street, near dismal Pigeon Park. Curiously, we chose to move here while my wife was expecting, about nine years ago. We had found a condo that we could actually afford, so we purchased a unit pre-construction, gambling that the neighbourhood would improve significantly by the time our building was completed. It didn't. We moved in anyway, hopeful that change was just around the corner. It wasn't, although the area would improve, eventually. But first, we would spend a few years raising our children in what could generously be described as a disturbing new community.
Main and 14th Ave. Otherwise known as Mount Pleasant, in the heart of Vancouver's newly affluent east side. I'm walking home from the Library with my two sons Tylerdurden and Dolemite, aged 6 and 3. As we approach, a yuppie makes an awkward attempt to parallel park his orange SUV with "HIS" on the personalized license plate. Across the street is an identical orange SUV with the license plate reading "HERS". All the while he is listening to Maroon 5 at full volume.
I hope my kids don't see, but they can certainly hear "She Will Be Loved".
For the past 6 years our family has lived in an over-priced one-bedroom apartment in the midst of condos that seem to be springing up like toxic mushrooms. The condos are all themed with bland names like "DoMAIN" and "DWELL" and my favorite "SOMA", presumably named after Brave New World's drug that dumbed-down the sexless, self-hypnotized masses.
Another of these condo units has sprung up, almost overnight. I distract my kids by pointing at a huge piece of dog shit, hoping they'll remember that instead of the flake-itorium on the corner. If there's one thing I can count on, it's dog shit on the sidewalk. At least the yuppies haven't taken that away. As long as there's dog shit on the sidewalk, I know I'm in East Van. I imagine in the future they'll have shit-free dogs, but not yet. Not yet.
Once, I watched two yoga enthusiasts comparing apple iphones in front of the playground where my kids eat their liverwurst sandwiches! I threw their lunch bags over their heads, raced home and forced them to watch "Manufacturing Consent", but the damage had been done.
Sooner or later these ipeople will be crushed by their immense debt load and wind up right back in the same apartments they presently disdain. The global economy will collapse and we'll all be back to wearing barrels as clothing and balancing on stacks of chairs for entertainment. As a life-long broke person, my life will be pretty much unaffected. My lower-class kids will be well-prepared when Mount Pleasant returns to its original working/lower-class roots. I'm betting on anti-gentrification. Hoping. Praying. Pleading.
thx Catchfire for my morning belly laugh.
Incredible graphic by Joel Marion:
Interesting, but what does it mean?
To own or rent?
Is it a metro average?
And does the percentage of 40 hour work week to own refer to ones monthly pay cheque or one of their weekly paycheques required?
And what's the difference between the two bars supposed to mean?
Love the satire though.
and though i guess the gatineau could end up being bizarrely representative of quebec with ultra-expensive ottawa burbs and the rural and all that, but i still don't see why you'd compare vancouver/calgary/toronto/halifax/gatineau, just seems weird.
that said, i'm weirdly proud at how relatively affordable montreal is, definitely the result of a pretty great rent control regime.
BC Liberals and Bob Rennie tighten grip on housing construction in Vancouver
This past Friday afternoon it was announced that real-estate tycoon Bob Rennie and former public servant Judy Rogers would be appointed as Commissioners of BC Housing. Some journalists noted that the appointment of Rennie was patronage for his support of Christy Clark in her leadership bid. Since the early rise of John Cummins and the B.C. Conservatives, Rennie has also been a proponent of a united right wing. He has contributed heavily to BC Liberal campaigns and often boasts of maintaining close contact with Rich Coleman and other higher ups in the current government.
The appointment of Judy Rogers also appears to be patronage for her mishandling of the Olympic Village project. It was under her oversight that the intended investment in social housing became instead a luxury development. Under her leadership as former City Manager, the developer Millennium was selected for the project, and for all practical purposes given free reign to access city finances. While for most Vancouverites this has been a catastrophe, it would be disingenuous to say it wasn't what the higher ups in the BC Liberal party wanted the whole time.
The appointments are a sign of where the BC Liberals and Bob Rennie would like housing in this province to go. Rogers and Rennie both sit on Streetohome, which is a private funder of social housing. While Vision Vancouver, in its pre-majority incarnation denounced the creation of Streetohome, the initiative now provides them with a convenient shift in responsibility: the private market can be responsible for housing. This shift has been backed up by the neoliberal rhetoric put forward by federal, provincial, and local governments, passing the buck from tier to tier and finally into the hands of Vancouver's most wealthy.
I thought the laneway homes were a good idea until I saw the cost. They want anywhere from $160K to $225K for a 750 square foot prefab laneway home on a postage stamp size lot in Vancouver. That's ridiculous.
Not by Vancouver standards (which, I recognize, are somewhat ridiculous). A comparable-sized new condo downtown (so no yard) goes for almost double that.
Here's a photo of one from the City's website. It hardly seems like a hovel to me, and personally I'd jump at the chance to buy it for $200K. Unfortunately it's still out of reach of the vast majority of people in Vancouver.
Rather than focusing on housing prices, I personally believe the priority should be to build more affordable rental housing.
This thread would work better as an RSS feed of the excellent Mainlander.
BC Housing subsidizes Pantages Condo project
Should BC Housing subsidize a Downtown Eastside (DTES) condo developer when our neighbourhood has 850 homeless people and 3500 living in crummy hotel rooms that need to be replaced? Is Condo King Bob Rennie, also on the Board of BC Housing, behind a sweet deal that will probably increase property values two blocks away from his own office?
These are two questions that shocked Downtown Eastsiders are asking after learning that BC Housing plans to loan up to $23 million to condo developer Marc Williams. Williams plans to build 79 condo units plus 18 social housing units (only 9 will rent at welfare rates) at the site of the old Pantages Theatre, 138 E. Hastings. He calls the project Sequel 138. According to the Vancouver Province, the loans will be at 1.29 % interest, much lower than the going rate from a bank.
Over 40 organizations, housing providers, artists, and social workers have joined 2200 DTES residents in signing a Community Resolution opposing condos at the old Pantages Theatre site, stating, "We would not want to be complicit in a project that will further displace, impoverish, and police residents of the Downtown Eastside and make people feel more unwelcome in their own neighbourhood."
The groups want the city to buy the Pantages site and use it for resident controlled social housing that people on welfare can afford.
4 years ago today Mayor Gregor said he wanted bottom-up planning, grassroots voice at City Hall. Then, the opposite happened.
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That's what the Mayor said to about 400 community representatives, thanking them for believing that Vision Vancouver would repeal the EcoDensity policies brought in by the Non-Partisan Association, and instead support CityPlan.
Four years later, many people know the opposite is what happened. The actions and voting of Mayor Robertson's Council majority since 2008 have betrayed the public trust, broken the social contract. That's what people are saying now. The rest of the story many know by now — the STIR program, Interim Rezoning Policy, Transportation 2040 — these are just the tip of the iceberg....
Dec 11 march to block condos from 100-block E Hastings, defend DTES low-income communities
Tuesday December 11, 2012
Rally & march meeting 2 pm
In front of Pantages demolition site at blue wall (about 138 E Hastings)
..the project
BC Housing subsidizes Pantages Condo project
Should BC Housing subsidize a Downtown Eastside (DTES) condo developer when our neighbourhood has 850 homeless people and 3500 living in crummy hotel rooms that need to be replaced? Is Condo King Bob Rennie, also on the Board of BC Housing, behind a sweet deal that will probably increase property values two blocks away from his own office?
These are two questions that shocked Downtown Eastsiders are asking after learning that BC Housing plans to loan up to $23 million to condo developer Marc Williams. Williams plans to build 79 condo units plus 18 social housing units (only 9 will rent at welfare rates) at the site of the old Pantages Theatre, 138 E. Hastings. He calls the project Sequel 138. According to The Province, the loans will be at 1.29 % interest, much lower than the going rate from a bank.....
..tuesday dec 11, we gather
..a 100 – 150 of us gather at the proposed condo site. people are outraged to find that bc housing is bailing out this project to the tune of almost 30 million dollars while thousands with marginal income are on a waiting list for social housing.
..we sign pledges that are posted up on the the wooden wall that separates us from the construction site. the pledges read that we will do all we can to prevent this project from happening.
On the move:
..so we begin out 1.5 hours trek visiting places of interest in the down town east side (dtes). there is much vocal support from the residents along the way. they also participate in our chants including "not for sale" "whose streets" and others.
1st stop:
..our 1st stop pidgin park. i check out some signs.
..there's vision the so called left council who are making this mass gentrification possible and providing it legitimacy.
Van City Savings:
..there's van city the credit union that will make the first $5000 available to the condo mortgage holders of this project. also providing legitimacy to gentrification.
Again we move along.
Next stop:
..the next stop is a newly built art gallery that is housed in a rennie building. there is no connection on any level between the artwork and the dtes residents. this is art for current and future gentrification projects.
..speakers speak and we hear: rennie owns several pieces of property in the dtes that are slated for other gentrification projects. he also (scandalous and disgusting) sits on the executive board of bc housing that is bailing out the sequel 138 project. no conflict of interest here..move along.
..we also learn that a condo project partner is the bc government. no conflict of interest here..move along.
..a resident of the dtes speaks. he has been on the bc housing list for 5 years, lives in a one room sro overlooking the condo construction site. he has had four heart attacks in the last 4 years including bypass surgery.
..as we move on we see "progress" in action.
Comrade down:
..the dtes resident who spoke at the rennie building has collapsed. we stop to wait for him. different speakers speak. we make way as an ambulance arrives and takes our comrade away. we wish him well.
Final stop:
..our final stop a bc housing office.
..a number of us enter while others remain outside with the banner chanting and educating passers by on why we are here. the office manager comes out and invites "our leader" into the back for a conversation. we respond with singing and chants. we remain for approx 30 minutes and move outside. we have a moment of silence for our fallen sisters and brothers. we name their names which are many. we end with promises to meet again soon.
I hope they have some success. It has been very difficult here; the sell-off of the former Institute for the Deaf brought together the strings of Church abuse of vulnerable children, corruption and collusion (Charbonneau Commission) and the little fiefs of borough mayors who have every interest in increasing the tax base by expelling the working-class people who have lived in my area (Villeray and Petite-Patrie) for generations.
Fantastic report, epaulo13! Thank you! Hope to see you at further actions as we fight this criminal bullshit.
..my pleasure catchfire! i will be there in future actions..i've pledged it.
..there will be a protest every saturday from 12 to 1pm at the condo sales office. not sure where it is but will post the address when i find out.
eta: here it is!
Sequel 138
Presentation Centre
International Village Mall ( Formerly Tinseltown )
Second Floor
2097 - 88 West Pender
Vancouver, BC, Canada
I hope they have some success. It has been very difficult here; the sell-off of the former Institute for the Deaf brought together the strings of Church abuse of vulnerable children, corruption and collusion (Charbonneau Commission) and the little fiefs of borough mayors who have every interest in increasing the tax base by expelling the working-class people who have lived in my area (Villeray and Petite-Patrie) for generations.
..there has been succeses here though it is difficult to tell as nobody announces that they have suffered a set back. one such that was spoken of was an alley way that was meant to provide high end boutiques once the residents were removed. the project failed after much protest. it's a tough road though as the masks are off and gentrification has become an open plan. thing about it is there is nowhere for the current residents to go where they can participate in the alternative economy that has been built over the years in order to survive.
Ending the False Debate about Save-On-Meats
Currently there is a debate raging about the pros and cons of Save-on-Meats in the Downtown Eastside. The latest is a polarizing sandwich token program to help feed the poor, in which restaurant customers can purchase tokens from Save-on-Meats and donate them to people in the neighborhood. Critiques have been made here, here, and here, as well as at The Mainlander, with Peter Driftmier's "Beggars Can't be Choosers" (Peter used to be a sandwich maker at Save-on-Meats)....
As with so many other gentrification projects, Mark Brand's numerous upscale Gastown enterprises have come under attack from the neighborhood. Anyone reading The Province or listening to the debates would nonetheless be surprised to know that Brand owns multiple upscale businesses in the DTES — six to be precise. In light of the problem, the underlying conflict about Save-on-Meats is clearly not about the intentions of Mark Brand, the nutritional value of his food, or the latest Oprah appearance. The conflict is about gentrification.
I've been involved in many battles against gentrification here, but I do have a question for Vancouver activists. We have to protect the rights of current Downtown Eastside residents to continue to live in their community - it is extremely important for poor people to maintain contacts and access to services.
But this does appear as an extremely broken community - yes, I'm looking at it from afar and have only the most cursory direct knowledge of it. The social problems are much graver than in the old working-class areas where we have waged housing fights. How can people in the neighbourhood be helped to get their lives in order and to be able to support themselves? (of course not all people can support themselves in any area).
I know that safe and secure housing is an important piece in the puzzle, but there are others. Just asking; not judging anyone.
In Vancouver the "NDP" supporters split into Vision Vancouver, Gregor's centrist developer backed party and the more left wing COPE. COPE and Vision both supported Gregor in his first bid for Mayor.
In Burnaby we have the most successful left of centre party in Canadian municipal politics The Burnaby Citizens Association is not affiliated directly with the NDP but to buy a membership in the BCA you must already be a member of the NDP. Their take on homelessness is not great because as far as they are concerned housing is a joint provincial and federal responsibility and not a municipal one. They are willing to expedite projects but will not budget any real resources since they consider it senior government downloading.
But this does appear as an extremely broken community - yes, I'm looking at it from afar and have only the most cursory direct knowledge of it. The social problems are much graver than in the old working-class areas where we have waged housing fights. How can people in the neighbourhood be helped to get their lives in order and to be able to support themselves? (of course not all people can support themselves in any area).
lagatta, one of the worst crimes of local and national media when reporting on the DTES is the incessant, even pathological demonization of the neighnourhood. No one -- and i mean no one -- in the MSM is able to utter the words "Vancouver's Downtown Eastside," without also uttering "poorest postal code in Canada": a statement that is not only factually incorrect, but chooses to highlight one aspect of the rich and diverse picture. I've been working with DTES people for about four years now, and I have never seen a more dedicated and vibrant community -- dedicated to fighting gentrification, police brutality, and systemic bias (e.g. Missing and Murdered Women Commission). There is also a large artist community, ad hoc support network and collective feeling.
None of this is ever mentioned in MSM reports on the DTES. Even the brief times something comes up -- for example InSite -- it's never mentioned that this was solely the result of a long and bitter struggle on the part of DTES residents. Politicians and academics get credit. Not to mention that even this feelgood story fits into the dominant narrative that the DTES is full of drug addicts and prostitutes.
Finally, even if the community is broken (which I don't accept), any damage is part of a sustained and psychopathic campaign by developers, shiteating politicians and capitalists to take land away from the people who live there and turn it into profit or vacation spots for the entitled rich. This fact alone is reason to step in and protect this communty from these -- pardon me -- fucking pigs.


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Medford Jazz Festival to re-brand?
The annual Medford Jazz Festival, which takes place this weekend, might be undergoing a name change in the not-too-distant future.
Organizers feel there may be a perception problem with the three day musical event, since many who attend are from out of town, and not so many young people seem to be attending.
Festival Director Dennis Ramsden says the festival might be better called a music festival instead of a jazz festival, since it really embraces blues, rockabilly, 1950s rock, western swing and even zydeco music.
A broader title to the festival might lead to a broader aged audience, and more from its home town

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"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. "
Moonlighting with the Boss
What does Business Jet Traveler editor Jeff Burger do in his spare time? Occasionally, he eats and sleeps, but mostly these days he works on book projects.
Chicago Review Press has just published Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters, which Burger edited. The book contains dozens of interviews, starting with ones from 1973, when the singer was earning $75 a week, and it follows him until 2012, when he had achieved vast wealth and worldwide fame. Some of the material hasn't previously appeared in print and some has never previously appeared in any form. Interviewers include such well-known figures as TV's Charlie Rose, Ted Koppel and Brian Williams; novelist Nick Hornby; and actor Ed Norton. There's also a piece by Burger, who talked with Springsteen when the singer was 24. In addition, the book contains the performer's best speeches at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, political rallies and elsewhere, plus photos by Frank Stefanko, who produced the covers for Springsteen's The River and Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Burger's next book will be Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, which Chicago Review Press will publish in April of 2014, the year the iconic singer/songwriter turns 80. Featuring eight pages of rarely seen photos, a foreword by Suzanne Vega and lots of previously unavailable material, this book will contain more than 50 conversations spanning nearly half a century.
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Tripartite Committees
Barnard Library and Academic Information Services Committee
Mission: The role of the Barnard Library and Academic Information Service Committee (BLAIS) is, "to assist in the planning of issues relating to the Library, academic computing, and information technology" at Barnard College (A Faculty Guide to Barnard College). In recent years, the committee has considered issues such as: the multiple uses of Courseworks, the pros and cons of an online course catalog versus a paper version, changes and modifications to eBear, the use of laptops in the classroom, and the L- course registration process.
Meetings: The committee meets three times each semester (once in October, November, and December during the Fall Semester, and once in February, March, and April during the Spring Semester).
Membership: The committee consists of a chair, the Dean of Library and Academic Information Services, and one faculty member from each of the four faculty voting groups in addition to two faculty members "at-large."
The Dean of the College, the Associate Provost, the Director of Academic Technologies, and the Director of Management Information and Network Services sit on the committee.
Four students sit on BLAIS -- the Representative to the Engineering Student Council, who is elected by the members of SGA, and three appointed students, who serve one- year terms.
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Committee on Instruction (COI)
Mission: According to the Faculty Guide to Barnard College, the Committee on Instruction (COI) is, "The College's principal formulator of educational policy." In recent years, the COI has considered matters ranging from major modifications to the curriculum, such as changing General Education Requirements, to the application of the Barnard Honor Code in the classroom, to whether or not to grant a GER designation request for a particular course.
Meetings: This committee meets every other week.
Members: The committee is chaired by Patricia Denison, the Associate Provost. In addition to the chair, the committee consists of two faculty members from each of the four faculty voting groups, The Dean of the College, the Dean of Students, and the Registrar. The Dean of Library and Information Services and a representative from Development also attend.
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Committee on Inclusion and Equity
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Meetings: The committee meets weekly.
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Food Advisory Board (FAB)
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We welcome students of all backgrounds to take our courses and participate in our programs. Our introductory courses are ideal for students with little or no background in Jewish Studies and we also offer intermediate and advanced classes. Jewish Studies courses offer students the opportunity to explore Jewish history, literature, texts, and traditions and the ways that they have evolved in the context of various civilizations. Take our courses as electives in order to deepen your understanding and investigate your interests, or become a major or minor (in any one of four different Jewish Studies tracks) and acquire a thorough knowledge of your field of Jewish interest.
Our courses fulfill General Requirements for the College and we offer language programs in Hebrew and Yiddish that satisfy the language requirement. Consult our list of courses and you will find a class for you!
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For more than 25 years, singers Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have enchanted fans as folk-rock duo the Indigo Girls. On January 16, they will perform at the Kravis Center, accompanied by a full orchestra. We chatted with Ray about the show and her life as a musician.
PBI.com: During this tour you'll be performing at the Kravis Center with a full symphony orchestra. What brought about that decision and what can fans expect?
Ray: We've always wanted to try it, and a couple years ago we got hooked up with this agency that specializes in pop musicians playing with orchestras. They helped us find arrangers to create scores and helped us get gigs. It's just another dimension, it's another way of playing the songs and it opens up a whole new world of listening. For us, it's a total challenge and really, really, really satisfying. So far, the audiences have seemed to really respond to it.
|Amy Ray (left) and Emily Saliers formed the Indigo Girls while still in high school.
How does it feel to perform your songs with a full orchestra?
It's like being in the middle of a storm, but you're not going to be hurt. It's so dramatic, and there's so much information happening. Emotionally, it's pretty overwhelming, and I think it's physically overwhelming because your brain is just being hit with all this musical input. It's quite challenging at first, and then once we learn how to stand our ground and feel stable in the midst of all that, we really are set free by it in some ways.
When did you start writing music?
I started writing songs in elementary school, like in the '70s, but they were bad. I think I started writing pretty seriously around my freshman year of college, like around '83. I really started to [reach] out to songwriters and seek out information about songwriting and really learn about it. I guess about 10 years ago, or maybe 13 years ago, I really discovered the process of how I wanted to work. It took a lot of time, and we did a lot of records before I got to that place. As a writer, I was kind of a late bloomer.
What differentiates the music you write that gets recorded for Indigo Girls versus the songs that end up as solo endeavors?
I don't know, just the feeling I have when I'm starting a song. I can kind of feel that it's going to be an Indigo song because it's got this certain space in it that I know Emily's going to inhabit. Maybe I'm thinking about harmonies more. I'll start writing a song and I'll automatically think in terms of two parts—then I know it's an Indigo Girls song. I'm so used to arranging with Emily now, in a way it inspires the song when I think about what she would do and the guitar parts she could play and all that kind of stuff. She's different, she doesn't think about me when she's writing. Not in a bad way—she just writes. And later on, I learn my way into it. But usually, at this point, I can kind of tell her what I want her to do already, like I already have it mapped out in my head while I'm writing.
You were raised in a conservative Christian family. What role do you think religion and spirituality plays in your life today?
Well, it's very important. It's like the fabric of everything I am. I lean on my spiritualtiy for strength—I don't even know how to describe it, it's fluid. And it helps inspire me for human rights issues. Sometimes, if I'm choosing between having time to watch TV or instead read a book about the Civil Rights Movement, the spirituality part of me is the part that says read the book. You need to learn, you need to have knowledge about this world and the things that you can do to add to it, and knowledge is power and all that jazz. I think it helps energize me and it helps me make choices that I feel good about later. It definitely informs my life still. I'm richer for it, for sure.
You've been touring for some 25 years. How has your stage presence evolved over the years?
(Laughs) I don't know. I have no idea because it's probably not that different, honestly. There have always been certain shows that I get more nervous about and other shows I feel not nervous. I always feel nervous at a symphony show. So, for the first 30 minutes I'm super nervous and then I relax and my stage presence is better. But I don't know, I think maybe—hopefully—I'm more humble than I used to be.
Is performing something you've always enjoyed?
I've always enjoyed it, but it never feels like performing; it feels like communing with song and the audience. Because [Emily and I] grew up playing in our English class and at camp and in more of an environment where you all were together, we didn't really see the stage as a separate entity from the rest of the room. So, that's kind of a blessing in a way, where we've just been able to be part of the experience in a way that brings everyone into it instead of this real division, because we're not pop stars...That's just not who we are.


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Four women: one incredible journey. Diana Martinez, Monica Pacheco, Jacqueline Perez, and Jessica Rodriguez attended the third Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas Trade Ministerial, March 2-3, 2010. These four impressive women participated in the Pathways Women Entrepreneurs Conference in October 2009 and, based on their extraordinary success stories, were sponsored by the U.S. Department of State to attend the Trade Ministerial. Read more about the four women and their success stories here.
Having met Diana, Monica, Jacqueline, and Jessica at the October 2009 conference, I have kept in touch with them as their journeys have progressed. I had the opportunity to ask them about their experiences at the Pathways Trade Ministerial earlier this month. Their excitement, gratitude, and determination to move forward are evident.
At the Trade Ministerial, the four Pathways women entrepreneurs led two workshops, sharing their success stories with the other women entrepreneurs in attendance and encouraging them to follow their dreams and make a difference in their communities. The four women each highlighted how participating in the October 2009 conference inspired them to look at their business plans from a new perspective and make the changes that have since catapulted their businesses to new heights of success. From marketing to supply chain management, networking to business reorganization, the four Pathways entrepreneurs had a wealth of information and experience to share with their captive audience. Jessica Rodriguez expressed, "It was amazing for me to have the opportunity to share my experiences with other women in Costa Rica, to tell them that any of us can be successful businesswomen and that they need only to make the decision to be one, to find their passion, and to believe strongly in it and focus on it."
Diana, Monica, Jacqueline, and Jessica also participated in a videoconference with Haitian women entrepreneurs that was held during the Trade Ministerial. Each of the women described the videoconference as a moving experience that touched them deeply. Diana Martinez noted, "The women entrepreneurs of Haiti took a hard hit, but the amazing part of all this is that all they can think about is how they can get back on their feet. The thing that struck me the most was the fact that none of them asked for donations… they only asked for micro-credits in order to pay for their debts. Such courage deserves my admiration and my respect. It has been years since I've learned a lesson so big, and this time it came from the women of the streets of Port du Prince."
The Pathways women also took part in an exposition at the Trade Ministerial, and Secretary Clinton visited each of their booths to learn about their products. Both Diana and Monica shared with me how nervous they felt before meeting the Secretary, but that she was so kind and comforting that discussing their businesses with her was both exciting and relaxing. "Meeting Secretary Clinton," Jacqueline said, "made me feel like more than a mere statistic, that I am not alone, but rather I am a member of a truly large network, a network that includes Hillary Clinton!"
Amazing things happen when you get a group of highly motivated women together who are passionate about making a difference, both in their communities and in the lives of women. The Pathways to Prosperity Initiative and the international network of women entrepreneurs launched by the October 2009 Women Entrepreneurs Conference is giving women exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth. At the conclusion of the Trade Ministerial, Monica Pacheco reflected:
"Thank you to Pathways as a whole for the amazing opportunity to share our stories, to meet new people, to inspire and be inspired, to learn, to advance and represent all the women involved. After this whirlwind of a few days [at the Trade Ministerial]… we came to the realization that we had done it together. We are a team and we function together as a team as we carry, strengthen, and support each other. That was the message we took to all the women we met. So to all those of you who were with us in spirit, in thought, in solidarity, whose ideas we borrowed from and who have been waiting to hear of our news, to you: PURA VIDA always."


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Loo's generic thin formulation has a thickness factor of 0.09, which I've always thought is just a *bit* too thick for a midwestern-style thin crust pie. For me, a TF of 0.07-0.08 is just about perfect. Check out the photos in the first post of this thread: http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6368.0.html especially the last photo, it's a fairly thick pie!
Hey steelplayer, there is a list of Midwestern-style thin formulations at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,16422.0.html. Loo's formulation is good, but it was posted 5 years ago and quite a bit has been done since then. I would recommend you try Garvey's formulation, or Pete-zza's Vito and Nick's clone. There has also been quite a lot of progress with the HRI clone, but this is a rather unique style of pizza and isn't quite typical of Midwestern thin crust IMO.


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Microsoft may be revealing the second generation of its Surface tablets during its developers' conference next month, according to a printed report.
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Prep Roundup (5-13-13)
FLINT-The Alpena softball team participated in a tournament in the Flint Kearsley Tournament on Saturday, winning two games and losing one while the last was cancelled due to weather.
There were 12 teams at the tournament and the first two games were done in pool play. The teams were then re-seeded according to their performance for the third and fourth games.
Alpena lost 8-4 against Fenton in their first game. Alex Peters was the losing pitcher. Logan Myers led the team with two hits.
Alpena then won the second game against Imlay City, 3-2 in eight innings. Corinn Gehrke pitched the whole game, giving up nine hits and striking out 10.
As a team, Alpena picked up seven hits with Peters and Kendra Lay grabbing two hits a piece.
The third game against Rapid River saw Alpena winning 6-0. Peters was the winning pitcher, giving up only one hit and striking out eight.
Shannon Kapala picked up two hits.
Alpena is now 13-7 overall and 7-0 in the Big North. They host Cadillac on Tuesday in Big North action.
Posen 11, Oscoda 0, Posen 3, Mio 1 (1 inning)
POSEN-The Stan Wozniak Insurance softball invitational was on Saturday. Mio beat Superior Central 6-3 while Posen beat Oscoda in five innings, 11-0. The winning pitcher was Ashley Meyers 5 who pitched five innings, gave up one hit, one walk and struck out nine.
She also picked up a solo home run in the third. A nine run fifth inning was highlighted by Abbie Delekta hitting a Grand Slam. Deletka went 4-for-4 and picked up four RBI's. Taylor Chojnacki was 2-for-3 with two RBI's while Bev Bednarski was 2-for-3 with one RBI.
Superior Central won the consolation game against Oscoda 12-2. At the end of the first inning in the championship game, Posen was up 3-1 against Mio until the game was suspended due to rain. The game will be replayed on the 20th in Posen.
Posen is now 15-4 overall and 10-0 in the North Star League. They travel to Atlanta on Monday.
Alcona 17, Hale 8,
Alcona 17, AuGres 2
LINCOLN-The Alcona softball team swept their opponents at the Alcona invitational on Saturday, outscoring them by a combined 34-10. Kendra Cole pitched all four innings of the first game and gave up only one hit.
She also went 2-for-4 with a solo home run while Alissa Terpstra went 3-for-4 and picked up a two run homer.
Alcona faced AuGres in the championship game and came up with an even bigger win. Cole was once again the winning pitcher, pitching for four innings and giving up only one hit and striking out four.
She was 3-for-3 with three runs scored. Sam Schopfer was 4-for-4 with three runs scored and one RBI. Cassie Carpenter was 3-for-3, scoring three runs. Marisa Hirschfelt went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and one RBI.
LINCOLN-Alcona golf finished 4th out of 14 teams at the 45th parallel golf tournament held at the Loon Golf Club Sunday. Josh Mead tied for 9th overall with an 83. Walker Kelly shot a 84 while Lucas Weichel shot 86. Finally, Spencer Winningham came in with 91 and Dustin Yokom had 103.
Alpena 448, first in large school division
Alcona 101.5, third in small school division
OGEMAW HEIGHTS- The Alpena girls track team took first place in the Ogemaw-Heights Falcon Invitational on Friday. They beat out four other teams in the large schools division to win.
Christina Kollien picked up a second place win in the 100 dash (13.35) and first place wins in 100 hurdles (15.69) and 300 hurdles (47.98). Jenna Talbot won third place in the 300 hurdles (53.27).
Elaine Lowe snagged a first place finish in both the 1,600 run (5:42.7) and the 3,200 (11:59.1). She also snagged second in the 400 dash (1:06.83). Racheal McDonald picked up second in the 1,600 run (5:49).
The 1,600 relay team (Kollien, McDonald, Talbot and Mikayla Oliver) picked up third place (4:47). The 3,200 relay team (McDonald, Oliver, Lowe and Brooke Burrone) also got third (11:27).
In the field events, Stephanie McNeil got third in shot put (27'11"). Emily Ferguson picked up a first place discus throw (107'1″). Sara Swider snagged second in the high jump (4'9″) and in the long jump (14'6″). Taylor Genschaw picked up first in the long (15'1/2″).
The Alcona girls team also competed in the Falcon Invitational for small schools division. They won third place with a score of 101.5.
Individual winners for Alcona include a second place win for Karina Cole in the 1,600 run (6:05). Cole also picked up bronze in the 800 run (2:33). Megan Quick had a big day, picking up a first place finish in the 400 dash (1:02) and in the 800 run (2:31). Torie Harmon tied for third in the high jump (4'4″). Sydney Pierce won third place in the 300 hurdles (58.96). Miranda Schalk picked up third in the 200 dash (30.79).
The Alcona 3,200 relay team came in first place with a time of 11:06, nearly two and a half minutes ahead of their nearest competitior. The 1,600 relay team was also able to pick up first (4:31).


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Michael Gregory is Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches and practices law as part of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI). TLPI is a partnership between Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Advocates for Children. TLPI's mission is to ensure that children traumatized by exposure to violence succeed in school. Prof. Gregory is a co-author of both volumes of TLPI's landmark report Helping Traumatized Children Learn, and is also a co-author of Educational Rights of Children Affected by Homelessness and/or Domestic Violence, a manual for child advocates. At HLS, Prof. Gregory co-teaches the Education Law Clinic with Susan Cole, in which law students represent individual families of traumatized children in the special education system and engage in systemic advocacy in education reform at the state level. In conjunction with the clinic, he co-teaches with Ms. Cole the seminars "Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk" and "Legislative Lawyering in Education Law." Prof. Gregory has also taught Education Law and Policy and Education Reform Movements.
Prof. Gregory received his JD from Harvard Law School in 2004, graduating cum laude. He also graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in American Civilization from Brown University in 1998, and received a Master of Arts in Teaching, also from Brown University, in 1999. He was the recipient of a Skadden Fellowship in 2004.
Areas of Interest
- Education Law and Policy
- Education Law and Policy: Special Education
- Children and the Law
- Law and Social Change: Education Reform
- Clinical Legal Education
- Children and the Law: Children's Mental Health
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The global effort for sustainability will be won, or lost, in the world's cities, where urban design may influence over 70 percent of people's Ecological Footprint and 80 percent of the world's population is expected to live by 2050. High-Footprint cities can reduce this demand on nature greatly with existing technology. Many of these savings also cut costs and make cities more livable. Since urban infrastructure is long-lasting and influences resource needs for decades to come, infrastructure decisions make or break a city's future. Which ones are building opportunities for resource-efficient and more competitive lifestyles? Which cities are building future resource traps?
What's in it for local governments?
Local governments succeed by helping all their residents live fulfilling lives, both today and in the future. The availability of natural capital, nature's ability to renew and provide resources and services, is not the only ingredient in this vision. However, without natural capital – healthy food, energy for mobility and heat, fiber for paper, clothing and shelter, fresh air and clean water – such a vision is impossible. Thus, providing current and future human well-being depends on protecting natural capital from systematic overuse; otherwise, nature will no longer be able to secure society with these basic services.
Ecological Footprint accounts allow governments to track a city or region's demand on natural capital, and to compare this demand with the amount of natural capital actually available. The accounts also give governments the ability to answer more specific questions about the distribution of these demands within their economy. In other words, Ecological Footprint Accounting gives policy makers information about their region's resource metabolism.
To learn more about cities that have calculated their Ecological Footprint, read our case story on Calgary, Canada.
For example, Footprint accounts reveal the ecological demand associated with residential consumption, the production of value-added products, and the generation of exports. They also help assess the ecological capacity embodied in the imports upon which a region depends. This can shed light on the region's constraints or future liabilities in comparison with other regions of the world, and identify opportunities to defend or improve the local quality of life. Footprint accounts help governments become more specific about sustainability in a number of ways. The accounts provide a common language and a clearly defined methodology that can be used to support staff training and to communicate about sustainability issues with other levels of government or with the public.
Footprint accounts add value to existing data sets on production, trade and environmental performance by providing a comprehensive way to interpret them. For instance, the accounts can help guide "environmental management systems" by offering a framework for gathering and organizing data, setting targets and tracking progress. The accounts can also serve as environmental reporting requirements, and inform strategic decision-making for regional economic development.
Without regional resource accounting, governments can easily overlook or fail to realize the extent of these kinds of opportunities and threats. The Ecological Footprint, a comprehensive, science-based resource accounting system that compares people's use of nature with nature's ability to regenerate, helps eliminate this blind spot.
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Most successful business owners have been approached about selling their business at least once. Yet, to maximize shareholder value, selling to the unsolicited bidder usually will not yield the highest price. After years of building a successful business it seems unwise not to invest the time and effort to discover what the full range of options are to maximize shareholder value. You will only sell your business once so it is important that you do it right. Bank of North Carolina's experienced Corporate Finance Advisors use a disciplined approach to selling businesses which results in maximizing shareholder value.
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If a sell transaction is the decision, BNC Corporate Finance Advisors will put together a comprehensive information memorandum that puts the company's information in a factual but favorable light. An exhaustive list of potential buyers is presented to the seller for permission to contact on a confidential basis. The potential buyers are only permitted to see high level information without disclosing the business name to determine if they are interested enough to sign a confidentiality agreement.
After signing such an agreement, interested parties are sent the entire information memorandum. All parties receiving the memorandum are given a period of time to review the material, ask questions, and submit a letter of intent indicating their offer for the business. After reviewing the information, asking for clarification, and analyzing the numbers, the offers are presented to the seller. Through additional negotiations with the top bidders the seller selects on an offer that provides for not only the highest price but the best terms and conditions for the seller. Once a letter of intent is signed with the chosen buyer, due diligence is completed and a Purchase Agreement is negotiated and signed. BNC professionals coordinate the closing process including the attorney, accountant, consultants and regulatory issues to ensure a successful sale. The whole process can take 60 to 180 days from start to finish.
Often business owners find themselves in a position such that it is better to grow the business through acquiring than grow internally. In these situations it is important to have a well-defined strategy for these target acquisitions. Since most business owners are not experts in mergers and acquisitions, it is important to hire professionals that can avoid the pitfalls that exist in this process. It is difficult for the business owner to be as tough a negotiator as is warranted knowing that the existing owner's cooperation is necessary to a smooth transition.
Therefore, it is often preferable to have an outside investment banker play that role. In addition, in an industry with few competitors, it is important to keep confidentiality about who is an acquirer. The investment banker can find potential sellers without disclosing who the buyer is until confidentiality agreements are signed and there is strong indication that the company might sell.
BNC Corporate Finance Advisors will work closely with you to assess your ability to acquire companies and develop a plan to pursue targets. Once a plan is agreed upon, we will contact targets on a confidential basis to promote a compelling rationale for a transaction. After finding a willing target we will evaluate the business value, synergies, and risks, helping you structure the transaction. We will also help determine the best source of financing for the transaction.
The difference between any acquisition of a business and a leverage buyout is that the buyers are existing employees of the company. The buyers, having a vast knowledge of the business, will now have a greater investment opportunity in the business which can lead to greater returns. Management teams often do not have the capital to buy the business outright. BNC Corporate Finance Advisors are able to assist in finding the appropriate financing options and structuring the transaction.
Sometime business owners find that they aren't ready to sell but they would like to take some money out of their business to diversify their equity holdings. A leveraged recapitalization allows the owner to repurchase shares of the company in exchange for leveraging the company with some form of debt. Such a restructure can provide liquidity for shareholders and it can also allow other existing shareholders to exit the investment completely.
In other cases, a minority investor may want to gain control of a company through a leveraged buyout. A leveraged buyout allows an investor to buy more shares of a company and gain a majority stake in that business with debt on the company's balance sheet. The investor would now have majority control of the business.
As a bank, the professionals of Bank of North Carolina are uniquely qualified to understand the debt markets and the structural requirements to ensure a successful placement. Senior debt transactions can be structured with the bank and/or syndicated with a network of banks to accomplish any size facility.
Often a company has growth opportunities that exceed its senior debt capacity, but that will provide excellent long-term cash flow and shareholder value, or a business owner may want to diversify the concentrated risk of stock in the private company with a partial liquidity transaction. Both of these needs can be met with subordinated debt.
Subordinated debentures, or mezzanine debt as it is sometimes called, are typically subordinated to senior debt with interest only payments at higher interest rates and with warrants attached. There are numerous sub-debt funds that seek to fund companies in certain industries. BNC Corporate Finance Advisors will prepare a detailed information memorandum, identify the appropriate mezzanine funds, solicit their interest in the transaction, and negotiate with each party to find the most suitable lender. Once a commitment letter with a mezzanine fund has been signed, BNC professionals will handle the coordination of closing and seek to resolve issues as they may arise.
The true value of any business is the price a willing buyer and a willing seller agree to, provided that neither party is under any compulsory need to do so. This is why the highest value for a business can be obtained through the process of creating an auction with multiple interested parties. In order to know beforehand that you are in the right range of values when pursuing a sell or purchase, a formal business valuation can frame the expectations. Each industry has its own multiples or norms for calculating value although there are numerous factors that need to be taken into consideration. Historical performance, growth opportunities, market position, industry risks, management quality, and owner compensation are a few of the factors that need to be taken into consideration in valuing a business.
BNC Corporate Finance Advisors have valued numerous businesses in many different industries and are fully qualified to provide business valuations. They combine a strong understanding of financial theory, in-depth industry knowledge, experience in capital markets, and the ability to identify and quantify significant off-balance sheet assets and liabilities. These abilities help ensure that you get an expert valuation whether it is for a sale, purchase, buy-sell agreement, or recapitalization.
Through relationships with direct CMBS lenders and insurance companies, BNC Corporate Finance Advisors can provide access to the permanent commercial real estate market. BNC professionals are experienced in financing and refinancing through placement to the CMBS market. The attraction of the permanent market for commercial mortgages is the non-recourse feature plus long-term amortization.
Donald R. Draughon, Jr. – Executive Vice President
Mr. Draughon has been in investment banking for over 20 years. Previous to Bank of North Carolina, Mr. Draughon founded and lead KeySource Commercial Bank as President and CEO. Prior to KeySource, Mr. Draughon was Managing Director / Senior Vice President for Anderson & Strudwick, Inc., a full service brokerage firm headquartered in Richmond, VA. Mr. Draughon also previously served on the Board of Directors for Smith River Community Bank in Martinsville, VA and Millennia Community Bank in Greenville, NC. Prior to Anderson & Strudwick, Mr. Draughon was the Chairman and CEO of Convenience USA, Inc., an operator of over 250 convenience stores, from 1998 to 2002. During the mid-1990s, Mr. Draughon was a Managing Director with the investment banking firm of Baxter Fentriss. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Draughon was Senior Financial Analyst for Montrose Capital, a merchant banking group. Mr. Draughon began his career in banking with Wachovia Bank from 1984 to 1989 as an Assistant Vice President in the Corporate Finance Group. Mr. Draughon received an MBA from Wake Forest University's Babcock School of Management in 1984 and a BA from Brigham Young University in 1982.
W. John Fedora – Managing Director
Mr. Fedora, Managing Director with Bank of North Carolina, has been providing investment banking services to middle-market companies for over 20 years. For the fifteen years prior to joining Bank of North Carolina, he was a Managing Director with Ironwood Partners and had previously held the same position with Matrix Capital Markets Group. Mr. Fedora co-founded and served as Vice President, Treasurer, and a principal owner of a wholesale upholstery fabric company. He was the Regional Manager for North and South Carolina with the Commercial Finance Division of Textron Financial Corporation, specializing in equipment financing and tax-oriented leasing. Mr. Fedora was Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of Carolina Medicorp, Inc. of Winston-Salem, NC and Forsyth Medical Center, its tertiary care, flagship hospital. He served on the merger committee that led to the creation of Novant Health, Inc., a multibillion dollar healthcare corporation formed by the merger of Carolina Medicorp and Presbyterian Healthcare of Charlotte, NC. Mr. Fedora has an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar, and a BA from Wake Forest University.
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Mr. Ricks is responsible for conducting company and industry analysis, doing buyer research, and preparing memorandums for the sale of companies and private placements. He began his career at the Royal Bank of Scotland where he helped streamline their global foreign exchange process. He had college internships as a bond analyst at Beneficial Financial in Salt Lake City, UT, an accounting analyst at Aramark in Page, AZ, and a systems analyst at KeySource Commercial Bank. He received a BS degree in Business with an emphasis in Finance from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He is skilled in financial analysis and is fluent in Spanish.


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