About Community Asset Brokers
The Twin Cities Metro is a labyrinth of rules and regulations designed to balance development goals with the comprehensive plans and expectations of the communities in which projects are proposed. The system is rarely as clear or inviting as it appears on paper.
Community Asset Brokers was created to help for-profit and nonprofit commercial and residential developers understand and navigate the community, city, and county procedures that can shape a project's outcome.
What We Do
The procedures of local government and their departments can be confusing and burdensome. Adding the layer of community notification can send businesses into unfamiliar territory without direct assistance.
We bridge the gap between community planning expectations and business realities.
Our work focuses on helping clients anticipate community concerns, understand the approval process, organize outreach, and navigate the relationships surrounding zoning, licensing, permitting, and development.
Our Approach
Community Asset Brokers works early in the development process whenever possible. Early engagement provides more opportunity to identify potential conflicts, understand neighborhood expectations, and shape a strategy before a project reaches a formal hearing or approval stage.
We combine practical knowledge of government process with direct community engagement so that clients can make informed decisions about timing, outreach, approvals, and risk.
Community support is not separate from the development process. It is one of the factors that can determine whether a project advances, stalls, or becomes unnecessarily adversarial.
Our Team
Tait A. Danielson
Tait Danielson brings more than 15 years of experience working at the intersection of neighborhoods, local government, community development, nonprofit leadership, public policy, and organizational strategy.
His background includes leadership of neighborhood and district organizations, community advocacy, development and fundraising work, grant and loan appropriation, city planning, stakeholder engagement, and process negotiation.
That experience allows Community Asset Brokers to understand projects from both sides of the table: the goals of developers and businesses, and the expectations of residents, neighborhood organizations, public officials, and local government.
Service Area
We Serve the Entire Seven-County Twin Cities Metro
Community Asset Brokers works with projects throughout Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the surrounding Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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