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KIRK SYKES - PRESIDENT, URBAN STRATEGY AMERICA (USA) FUND
Kirk
Sykes, President of the Urban Strategy America (USA) Fund, a New Boston real
estate investment fund, is known as a passionate leader of community change
and an expert on developing urban mixed-use communities. Kirk’s role
with the USA Fund is to ensure the investments deliver on their promise of
achieving a true “triple bottom-line”- generating solid returns
to investors, spurring economic development and workforce housing and promoting
environmental sustainability.
Kirk’s combination of business and community-based experience allows him to bridge the competing concerns that sometimes block urban projects from moving forward and in turn, allow the USA Fund to do well by doing good. Kirk’s professional training and hands-on experience in the areas of development, design and construction help in creating customized responses to the complex issues of urban real estate development.
Kirk’s approach is grounded in the bottom-line driven perspective gained during his tenure as a member of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Lehman Brothers Capital Crossing Preferred REIT, Fleet Bank and BankBoston’s First Community Bank Advisory Boards and various other for-profit and non-profit board affiliations. Kirk attended the Harvard Business School Owners and Presidents Management Program, the MIT Center for Real Estate Development Commercial Development Executive Program and the L’Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He earned his Bachelors of Architecture from Cornell University.
In his Mission Recognition podcast, Kirk speaks about his long-standing commitment
to community change and long familial history of entrepreneurship. He offers
tips for building relationships amongst stakeholders who have a variety of
competing interests, highlights the opportunities and challenges of public-private
partnerships, and discusses communications ideas for reaching key audiences.
Click here to listen to Kirk's
Interview (14 min. 34 sec.) (To download, right clickand select "Save
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