merge urban development group

When private capital meets untapped potential…

merge

(verb)

: to cause to combine, unite, or coalesce
: to blend gradually by stages that blur distinctions

Merge Urban Development Group is a development team focused on real estate development in Qualified Opportunity Zones across the Midwest. Our passion is creating mixed-use developments in the urban core that reflect both a community’s history and its aspirations. Our individual team members bring experience in real estate, economic development, construction, city planning, space making, technology startups, and small business.

Our logo incorporates a crosswalk to reflect both our walkability principles and our desire to encourage people to move around – meet unique individuals – find ways to work together.

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“…the walkable city is not just a nice, idealistic notion. Rather, it is a simple, practical-minded solution to a host of complex problems we face as a society, problems that daily undermine our nation’s economic competitiveness, public welfare, and environmental sustainability.”

Jeff Speck

WALKABLE CITY

“Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.”

Jan Gehl

“The building with a lively building edge is connected, part of the social fabric, part of the downtown, part of the lives of all people who live and move around it…if the edge fails then it never becomes lively.”

Christopher Alexander

A PATTERN LANGUAGE

“There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.”

Jane Jacobs