CreativesDC

Building an enthusiastic creative community in DC

Neil Takemoto
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Left Bank for Creatives

Once this group hits 100 members, the owners will meet with the group to discuss better accommodating coworking creatives in the evenings, even opening for lunch starting with one day a week. Did you know they have wi-fi and a conference room?!
May 11, 2011
Neil Takemoto and Fred Joiner are now friends
Dec 13, 2010

Profile Information

What is your interest in the CreativesDC beta community?
To crowdsource cool places, events and scenes where we can all meet other creatives.
How are you using your imagination and original ideas to enrich our economy and culture in DC, and beyond? Or, how would you like it to?
Crowdsourcing the development of places that creatives truly want to be in.
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Neil Takemoto is the founding director of CoolTown Beta Communities, a crowdsource-based placemaking and economic development firm codeveloping natural cultural districts with creatives. His work over the last 14 years has been committed to the development of places with significant economic, environmental and social benefit, currently working in Syracuse, New Orleans and Washington DC.

Neil is the founder of CoolTown Studios, a ‘crowdsourcing cool places for creatives’ blog/news site that attracts 40,000 unique visitors a month. It has been featured in Architect Magazine and the ULI’s annual developers conference.

He is also the cofounder of Bubbly, a crowdsourcing web application, and Mobfuse, a crowdsourcing consulting firm.

With Andres Duany, Neil co-founded the National Town Builders Association in 1997, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field.
Email
heyneil@cooltownstudios.com
Website
http://www.creativecrowdsource.com
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Neil Takemoto's Blog

Crowdsource a live music nightclub

Crowdsource a triple-bottom-line live music nightclub with Gaia...


Posted on February 3, 2010 at 3:00pm

Crowdsourcing a creative destination in DC





Pictures and music are worth more than text, so here's a deck (generic name for a Powerpoint) sponsored by Washington DC developers (Red Dove, website coming and Gragg & Associates) to crowdsource an urban destination for… Continue

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 5:49pm

CreativesParis?

Latin Quarter, Paris

I'll be in Paris on July 4-13 to study the kinds of places, scenes and events that could inspire us here in DC. If anyone has suggestions of people I could meet that would help my mission, perhaps even establish a sister community to CreativesDC, please let me know!





Here's a little story on Paris' drive to attract creatives...



Did you know Paris, unlike New York, London and Tokyo, is not a 24/7 city? Most restaurants… Continue

Posted on June 24, 2009 at 3:30pm — 5 Comments

Affinity Lab in Adams Morgan on Fox News, Express

The Lab was featured in the Fox News story, Despite Economy, Some Businesses Succeed, on Friday, February 13, 2009 at 6 pm. It was also very prominently featured in the Washington Post Express, Natural Affinities: Thinking Outside the Cubicle, on February 11,… Continue

Posted on February 17, 2009 at 12:30pm

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