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Lion Heart with your host Lauren stunning. Well Sean Jones, great to talk to you,

and I'm excited today.

We have a lot to talk about.

All right, I'm glad to be here, man.

Big Lawrence in the house.

So when I first met you, you had just finished your first building on the

woodlawn development and it was really cool because I was out of town but I

know they had the ABC News or someone that came there and they there was I think it was five of you that

had all done a building and you had completely changed that block before you guys

it was all vacant lots and it wasn't much going on and now it's this beautiful

block how did that happen that you guys all came together?

Well, we're basically all developers in the neighborhood have all grown up on the

south side and we decided as rehabbers that we want to do something really big. And there's a term out here or

a slogan, buy back the block and that's kind of catchy in our necker woods at a neighborhood and that we wanted to do something really big, buy back the

block and put something out there that people were going to recognize and like, wow, this is really inspirational and changing.

So we contacted the Cook County Land Bank, told them what our plans were and they were excited and we got our funds together and

purchased the lots. We bought 11 lots, did basically half of the development

in the first round and we basically share best practices with one

another and shared resources because none of us had the experience of actually developing

but we did have a ton of rehabs under our belt.

So that allowed us to learn from each other as we got through the process and once we got the

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