Dan Carmody

About Dan Carmody

More than 45 years experience in place making, local economic development and local food systems with a rich and broad array of experience around North America. From ten years in the trenches as a tavern keeper thru twenty years of place making in the second tier industrial cities of the Midwest (Rock Island and Fort Wayne) to operating the largest public market in the city typically selected as the poster child for the post carbon era (Detroit). Current passions include merging place-based and sectoral-based economic development to foster the regeneration of one of Detroit\'s most venerated places to inspire new templates and narratives to re-purpose vacant urban land and resurrect regional food systems. I have spent my working life seeking clues to regenerate economies left behind by globalization in developed countries be they small towns or urban centers. Spreading wealth more broadly- geographically and demographically -is the most important goal of local economic development today. Specialties include: Local economic strategic planning, tactical place making, nurturing regional food systems, community-based development, pioneering new real estate markets, arts & entertainment district development, entrepreneurial non-profit management.

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Eastern Market Partnership

   Nov 2007 — Present · Detroit, MI, US

   Over the last fifteen + years I have had the pleasure and privilege of leading the non-profit responsible for shepherding a 127-year-old, public market to nourish a healthier, wealthier, and happier Detroit. EMC operates one of the largest public market in the United States, oversees a program of capital investments to rebuild the market, serves as the economic development organization to nurture and expand the Eastern Market District, manages a host of food access programs to improve Detroit diets, and builds an eco-system to support Detroit food entrepreneurs.EMC has positioned Eastern Market as an national thought leader in developing new templates for how to re-purpose urban vacant land and resurrect regional food systems after large scale consolidation in the food sector. Moreover, EMC is leveraging the thriving Eastern Market District to foster regeneration of nearby neighborhoods.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  BURP, Urban and Regional Planning

  1973 — 1977

• The University of Manchester

  Town and Country Planning

  1975 — 1976

• SPNM: Special Projects in Non Profit Managment

  Harvard University Certificate Program, July 2014