Emilie Evans
Brick + Beam Detroit
Emilie Evans a preservation planner with extensive experience working in legacy city communities as well as using data to help cities guide strategic reinvestment decisions. Emilie was a 2017-2019 Detroit Revitalization Fellow where she worked for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and prior to that was Director of the Rightsizing Cities Initiative with PlaceEconomics, a firm that measures the economic impacts of heritage preservation projects nationwide. She came to Detroit in 2013 to serve as Detroit Preservation Specialist working jointly for the Michigan Historic Preservation Network and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which honored her with an American Express Aspire Award in 2015. Prior to Detroit, Emilie lived in New York City where she worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and taught at her alma mater, Columbia University, from which she holds masters’ degrees in Historic Preservation and Urban Planning. Emilie loves doing home repair projects, which she honed in her Boston Edison home in Detroit, and amassing more tools than she needs. She now lives in Atlanta with her husband, two boys, a sweet rescue pit bull, and two adopted cats.
About the Shop
Brick + Beam Detroit is a community for property owners, tradespeople, and building rehabbers of all levels. We support rehabilitation and reinvestment in Detroit by sharing knowledge, building talent, and providing access to the resources needed to keep projects moving forward. Brick + Beam's forum connects people interested in rehabbing and reinvesting in Detroit’s buildings with hands-on skills, local tradespeople, resources, advice, and overall moral support needed to get repair projects started -- and to keep them going. Brick + Beam is a proud 2015 Knight Cities Challenge winner and is made possible by support from the Knight Foundation and Quicken Loans Community Fund. The project is a collaboration among the Michigan Historic Preservation Network, Detroit Future City, and Preservation Detroit, represented and currently led by Executive Director Alissa Shelton with the support of Brick + Beam's original cofounders.