Lee Brandt 🐔

🚀 Launching the next generation of community leaders one 🐔 sandwich at a time. 🚛♻️Former Titan of Trash, part-time Operatic Tenor, After-Hours Entrepreneur.

[John Monroe @MinisterofD]

Live look at downtown Knoxville post-earthquake

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

This should be a national scandal: Today, the LA County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution asking the state to suspend various legal protections for property owners in burned areas—their right to build a duplex or ADU, to reasonable permit timelines, and more.

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

Montana's winning housing reform strategy…

Make it easier to build here... to protect there.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Each and every fresh snow reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets and roads for cars, making them faster and more dangerous, and how much space we could reclaim for people and public life.

We call them #sneckdowns. GIF via @otucis #sneckdown

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

Here is my plan to repurpose obsolete malls:

Bulldoze them and build high-density housing.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Raised crosswalks and pedestrian bulb-outs should be the default minimum at every intersection in every city in this country.

[Tom Horsman @TomHorsman]

A few years ago, the City gave the owners of the Small City Taphouse a grant to support their brewery expansion & exterior renovations. The new windows went in a couple years ago, but they’re just now doing the exterior facade work.
The building in 2018 compared to today: 🤩

[Lee Brandt 🐔 @LeefBrandt]

@arestaurant_guy Account for average sauce quantities with each order and ring them in, but dont charge for them. Include the expected sauce usage into menu prices. Some will use more, others will use less. At the end of the day, it is a minimal cost and reduces complexity, while building loyalty

[Lee Brandt 🐔 @LeefBrandt]

@brianbeers Awesome concept. Simple menu, great product, not a ton of operational complexity. I’d 💯 get behind a weekend pizza pop-up like this.

[Lee Brandt 🐔 @LeefBrandt]

@tmitchtweets Just re-up-ed mine. Not sure if it was the smartest idea but I travel about every other month with delta.

[Tesho Akindele @Tesho13]

My real estate development thesis is that the demand for walkable neighborhoods is much higher than the supply.

To take advantage of that demand, you can build more housing in existing walkable neighborhoods, or create new pockets of walkability.

[Lee Brandt 🐔 @LeefBrandt]

@markskovorodko Seems extreme. Simple communication is so much easier but it could be that they’ve exhausted all other options.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. @DaleJr]

With the news of a possible return for Newport, I had a note passed to me today that says that Southside Speedway in VA is absolutely also on the path to a return. Incredible to hear these two historic facilities will soon be back in operation.

[Lee Brandt 🐔 @LeefBrandt]

Sometimes, I get to experience amazing conversations that inspire me to write about what I get to do 🐔. We're working to create a more intentional culture and striving to build a place where everyone loves their job.

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[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"We've got to get the coffee shops, the barber shops, the law firms back into residential neighborhoods"

At the risk of liking a politician, watch this.

[Lee Brandt 🐔 @LeefBrandt]

@investing_law Can’t beat Small and Medium Cities. I prefer the term Goldilocks Cities; They’re just the right size; small town feel with big city amenities.

Some of my Favorites: Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, Greenville, Savannah, Ann Arbor, Bend, and a tough market, but Memphis.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

Good urbanism is the highest form of conservationism.

[Lee Brandt 🐔 @LeefBrandt]

@iononrecourse @moseskagan Taco oriented development is where it’s at! I travel the country for work and I always try to stay at the hotel near cool restaurants and 3rd places even if it’s a bit more of a commute.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

People say go get an MBA for the network.

I talk to no one I went to MBA with at Georgetown.

You build real relationships by doing hard things. MBAs are not hard, building is hard.

Builder networks > Paid for networks

[Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton]

"Almost every country in Western Europe—where single-stair apartment buildings can rise many times the IBC’s three-story height limit—has fewer fire deaths per capita than the US."