Management

Neil Takemoto is the founder and CEO of Cooltown Beta Communities. His work over the last 19 years has been committed to the crowdsourced placemaking of destinations with significant economic, environmental and social benefit. He is currently a co-principal in Crowdsourced Placemakers, a firm that is managing the crowdsourced placemaking program for four projects: a 17-acre transit oriented development in Bristol, Connecticut; an urban revitalization initiative in Hempstead and Huntington Station, both in Long Island, and a new development in Nashua, New Hampshire. You can watch his TEDx presentation on crowdsourced placemaking here.

Neil is the founder of Cooltown Studios, a crowdsourced placemaking 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.

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.