Ilana Preuss

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Ilana Preuss is the founder of Recast City LLC with more than 20 years of experience in community development. She's an experienced speaker, see her TEDx presentation, “The Economic Power of Great Places." She serves on the board of directors for the national nonprofit, Incremental Development Alliance.

The Value of Home-Based Businesses to Economic Recovery

The challenge of America’s economic recovery, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, is to spread it to every community – and especially those that have been historically excluded. The key to meeting that challenge...

byIlana Preuss

May 18, 2022

Small-Scale Manufacturing is the Secret Sauce to Revive Downtowns

Excerpt from Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing by Ilana Preuss. Copyright © 2021 Ilana Preuss. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. The Secret Sauce: Small-Scale Manufacturing...

byIlana Preuss

November 16, 2021