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Detroit, MI 48211

LOVELAND Technologies

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Jerry Paffendorf

Jerry Paffendorf is the founder of LOVELAND Technologies, a software start-up based in Detroit.

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Buy real land in Detroit for $1 a square inch and join a network of inchvestors in the new 50,000 square inch Hello World microhood. This season LOVELAND Technologies is building a virtual Bridge To Everywhere and supporting other cool projects in Detroit.
 

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Where the auction is: Q&A with surreal estate innovator Jerry Paffendorf

Jon Zemke / Model D Friday, October 28, 2011
Jerry Paffendorf is an idea man. Not the typical idea man with grand ambitions and little execution who thinks his ideas would be great for other people. Paffendorf actually turns his dreams into reality. Jon Zemke asks all the right questions.read on…

Revivalist Detroit, says NY Times: from Slows to skatepark

Friday, October 22, 2010
You know Detroit's Slows has arrived when The New York Times writes about not only the world-famous restaurant's food but the impact it's having on revitalizing the Motor City. Also, check out the second piece about urban farming and how Detroit sets the standard when it comes to this new, innovative way to handle land use.Excerpt:HOW much good can a restaurant do?In this city, a much-heralded emblem of industrial-age decline, and home to a cripplingly bad economy, a troubled school system, racial segregation and sometimes unheeded crime, there is one place where most everyone — black, white, poor, rich, urban, not — will invariably recommend you eat: Slows Bar B Q. Slows opened in 2005 at the edge of downtown Detroit, in Corktown, across from the long-abandoned central train station, itself a symbol of widespread blight. Hidden behind a stylish wooden door with no discernible handle, it has become a beacon, drawing longtime Detroiters, newly arrived young people and scores of suburbanites, who wait for hours to sample the pulled pork and dry-smoked ribs and coo over the upcycled design. The restaurant and its sleek décor were dreamed up by one of Slows' owners, Phillip Cooley, who has emerged as a de facto spokesman for the now-hip revitalization of this city. "Before Slows was built, generally speaking people came into the city for hockey games, ball games and to see the 'Sesame Street Spectacular,'" said Toby Barlow, Detroit's other de facto spokesperson. Mr. Cooley, he said, has "validated the idea that people will come into the city."Read the rest of the story here and another one on how Detroit sets the benchmark in urban farming here.read on…

Loving Detroit by the inch; welcome to the microhood

Friday, October 22, 2010
The people at Xconomy take a close look at Detroit's Loveland project and the ties its founders have to San Francisco's Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem. It's one of the more revealing pieces on this well-known story, even if it does call Detroit's most photographed ruin the "Michigan Central Railroad station."Excerpt:It would be easy to dismiss Jerry Paffendorf and his friends as a bunch of art-nerd carpetbaggers from San Francisco who see Detroit as the latest canvas for their airy-fairy ideas about virtual communities and social entrepreneurship.In fact, that's how some locals reacted when reports surfaced in The Detroit News last year that Paffendorf had bought an abandoned lot on the city's east side for $500, renamed it Plymouth, and announced plans to resell it, one square inch at a time, on the Internet. "People brought up stuff like, 'Who does this hipster f*ggot think he is, moving in from San Francisco with stupid Internet ideas,' or 'It's illegal to represent that you are offering land for sale if it's not real,'" Paffendorf says. "And there was some skepticism that I would want to stay in the city."Read the rest of the story here.read on…
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