{"id":1271,"date":"2024-08-19T19:35:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/djcoregon.com\/skilledmag\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:56:38","slug":"developers-book-introduces-kids-to-real-estate-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djcoregon.com\/skilledmag\/2024\/08\/19\/developers-book-introduces-kids-to-real-estate-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer\u2019s book introduces kids to real estate development"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do you know about real estate development? If your answer is \u201cnot a lot,\u201d you\u2019re in the right place! Learn about this powerful industry, how it started, and how it can evolve in the future. Anyone can become a real estate developer, and everyone can be involved in how building projects impact their community. Anyeley Hallov\u00e1 volunteering with nonprofit
\u201cYour Street Your Voice.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

By Chuck Slothower<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Anyeley Hallov\u00e1<\/p><\/div>\n

It wasn\u2019t until graduate school that Portland developer Anyeley Hallov\u00e1 was exposed to real estate development as a career field. She wants to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen to another generation of kids.<\/p>\n

Hallov\u00e1, founder of the Portland development firm Adre, has published \u201cA Kids Book About Real Estate Development.\u201d The book explores what real estate developers do, and how they can change cities in a positive way.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the mission of my company is about getting more youth of color, more girls, more people from traditionally underrepresented groups to think about real estate development as a field,\u201d Hallov\u00e1 said.<\/p>\n

The book comes from small Portland publisher A Kids Book About, Inc., founded in 2020 by Jelani Memory. The company, which also produces podcasts, was recently acquired by British publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd., commonly known as DK.<\/p>\n

The book series tackles often-sensitive topics at a level children can understand. The first book was Memory\u2019s \u201cA Kids Book About Racism.\u201d Other topics range from empathy and equality to school shootings and incarceration. Authors such as LeVar Burton and Billie Jean King have contributed volumes.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hallov\u00e1 said her motivation for writing the book came in part from real estate development\u2019s historically exclusionary nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a long time, land ownership was reserved for specific people. Namely those who were white, male and wealthy,\u201d Hallov\u00e1 wrote in the book. As a result, she wrote, \u201cpeople outside of this exclusive group don\u2019t typically know about real estate development. \u2026 If they do know about it, they don\u2019t feel welcome to participate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hallov\u00e1 said she was first exposed to real estate development at the first Urban Land Institute\/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition in 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was my first exposure to development in a positive light,\u201d she said. \u201cPrior to that, I had always heard of developers in terms of the bad things that they had done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hallov\u00e1 went on to earn master\u2019s degrees in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and landscape architecture from Harvard University. After a stint with an Atlanta developer, she came to Portland in 2007 as development manager for Gerding Edlen. She then worked as a partner for developer Project^ for 12 years before founding Adre in 2020.<\/p>\n

Real estate development has long been a field where relationships matter more than credentials. That\u2019s beginning to change, Hallov\u00e1 said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a kind of father-passing-down-to-the-son profession,\u201d Hallov\u00e1 said. \u201cIt\u2019s getting better, but historically there were not clear pathways into the profession. So you\u2019d have to know about it, and you\u2019d have to know someone to get hired. Now there\u2019s real estate development programs coming up in school. I think it\u2019s getting better in that way, where you can get an education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hallov\u00e1 may not be done as an author. She said she\u2019s considering a second book that would be part life story, part \u201cDevelopment 101.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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