The Place for the "Band of Disruptive Catalyst" Changing the World!

CEO, Sherri Franklin
On August 23, 2018, I made the faithful decision to transform my Urban Design Center consultancy practice of 28 years and emerge as a center for resilient innovation, development and enterprise. Transformed through a tapestry of “Resilient Communities” podcast presentations and educational workshops 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.
Our efforts will manifest through collective investment strategies and pooled human capital structured to revitalize communities and build legacy wealth. We will build a network for the bands of disruptive catalyst 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. We know the words:
Gentrification! Displacement! Moved Out! Bought Out! Sold Out! Dilapidated! Blighted! Transitioning!
These 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 ...
Envisioned By Us, Created By Us! Bought By Us, Owned by Us! Built By Us, Preserved By Us!