Posts tagged Durham
Tiffany Elder

Tiffany Elder is a Durham-based licensed general contractor, Realtor, and real estate investor/developer. She is Owner of Paradigm Construction (design-build construction firm), and Paradigm Properties (real estate brokerage firm).

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Tiffany launched her professional career as a software engineer. She moved to North Carolina to acquire a Master of Business Administration, with a focus in Sustainable Enterprise, from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and fell in love with the Triangle. Today, Tiffany enjoys renovating historic structures, and building new residential and commercial spaces in the Raleigh-Durham area. She currently facilitates multiple Durham-based and online real estate ownership and investing seminars, with the goal of empowering both novice and experienced residents to participate in, and benefit from growth in their local real estate markets.

Tiffany’s community activities include serving as Co-Chair of Durham’s 95MM Affordable Housing Bond Implementation Committee; Also as Past Chair of the Steering Committee for Durham’s inaugural 2MM Participatory Budgeting Process. Tiffany also chairs The Collective, a Durham-based consortium of minority real estate professionals, including developers, contractors, lenders, attorneys, housing providers, and others, who support the full life cycle of real estate, and who are committed to ensuring minority participation in local real estate activities.

Learn more at tiffanyelder.com

Areas of expertise: adaptive reuse, historic tax credits, infill, mixed-use, faith-based development

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Aaron Lubeck

Aaron Lubeck is a designer + builder practicing in Durham, North Carolina. A former resident of seven college towns, he specializes in complex neighborhood infill projects, zoning codes, and incremental development.

Aaron is the author of Green Restorations: Sustainable Building in Historic Homes (New Society), and a former lecturer at Duke University’s Nicholas School for the Environment.

"Aaron is an excellent speaker. He forces attendees to think as he explores new frontiers for urbanism and community design." - Bob Chapman, New Urbanist developer.

As President of Trinity Design | Build, he presided over multiple ambitious sustainable retrofits, including the first privately-developed LEED Platinum building in North Carolina. When not sketching site plans on his iPad, he can be seen lobbying for bicycle boulevards, tossing frisbees to his poorly-behaved golden retriever, and singing songs from North Carolina in his cover band. FInd him at:
www.southernurbanism.org
www.faith-housing.org
www.rocketshopnc.com

Areas of expertise: green building, faith-based housing, neighborhood infill

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