Build Better Places
Build Better Places, Single Stair North CarolinaDocumenting my journey to build human-scale housing in the United States.
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What I learned trying to turn a strip mall into a place worth walking to
Not far from my house in Apex, North Carolina there’s an old shopping center that sits in the middle of a triangular piece of land. It has a grocery store, a karate school, a nail salon, a thrift shop and a pizza place. The parking lot is v...
The Case for Large Parcel Infill
In May, I attended the Congress for the New Urbanism in Northwest Arkansas. I expected to hear a lot about walkability, street design, mixed-use buildings, and the failures of sprawl. I heard that and more from the professionals from the “b...
How to Build a Housing Movement
A Single Stair house design from NC State Architecture student Aiden Staub
In 2025 I started a grassroots effort to support Single-Stair building code legislation in North Carolina. At first glance, this might seem like an oddly specific c...
The Smart Money Builds Places
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a developer that came to me with an interesting question: what to do with a nearly 2000 acre area of land outside of a major urban center in the US? Given its immense size and relatively low existin...
Vibe Shift Part 3: What Kind of Housing Will America Need by 2050?
In the first two pieces of this series, I explored how American communities were shaped by a postwar logic that made sense in its time but no longer explains the world we are entering. In Part 1, I argued that the postwar suburban model mad...
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Build Better Places is exploring how to develop human-scale communities in today’s real estate landscape. For investors, builders, and urbanists who want real solutions, not just ideas. Let’s build better places—one step at a time.
North Carolina needs more walkable neighborhoods and better family-sized housing options. Single-stair apartments help make that possible, and we’re working to legalize them statewide. Created in partnership with @CITYBUILDERNC
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