Private-Public Partnership
We help align these partners with a neighborhood’s needs and assist to design their investments, spaces and services around the community’s priorities.
Leadership Across Spectrums
The first step of neighborhood transformation is to align a leadership team committed to seeing through the change they will design. This mix of private and public sector leadership members are represented through an existing or newly established for-profit, non-profit, or community development corporation.
We help align these partners with a neighborhood’s needs and assist to design their investments, spaces and services around the community’s priorities. Each project has a different configuration of needs: and the project design, partners, services and funding sources are activated accordingly.
TURN Principals
Mike Higbee
Mike is at heart a community builder. He does not shrink from solving complex community development challenges. In fact, he has made a career of it. From helping to rebuild downtown Indianapolis to constructing new affordable and market rate infill homes in low-income blighted neighborhoods. Mike is a pioneer in urban redevelopment. He relishes using his creative and innovative insights to solve challenging development dilemmas.
He has enjoyed a 40-year career that has involved playing several roles in the community and economic development arenas. His primary focus has been on development and redevelopment, implementation, and public-private partnerships (P3). He has helped create plans and developments that benefit urban and rural communities in the United States and abroad.
Mike served as the Director of Metropolitan Development for the City of Indianapolis from 1985 to 1991, where he oversaw the City’s economic development and affordable housing initiatives. Premiere projects he led for the City were the Circle Centre Mall development, the Lower Canal Improvement Project, Pan Am Plaza, and negotiations for the United Airlines Maintenance Facility at the Indianapolis International Airport.
Mike founded and served as President of Development Concepts, Inc., a development planning, and real estate consulting firm from 1991-2018. His company worked across the country planning and in many cases implementing downtown and neighborhood masterplans. He also partnered in large scale developments including an in-fill housing project and the redevelopment of the 150-acre historic Central State Hospital site.
Most recently he led an Economic Development Team at Thomas P. Miller and Associates building a national practice in housing, opportunity zones and economic recovery and resiliency.
Mike has served as a Faculty Member for the Rose Center for Public Leadership and is often invited to participate in or chair panels in cities across the country on behalf of the Urban Land Institute Advisory Services Program.
Mike recently founded OBE Advisors LLC. OBE Advisors will partner with public and private sector leaders to identify investments and/or projects that enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life assets for community residents and businesses.
Shelley Moore
Since 1999, Insight SC has provided growth planning services to over 200 organizations including businesses, nonprofits and government entities that have achieved significant economic impact and growth in part her team’s services. Services include strategic growth planning, team facilitation and leadership, community development, project management, marketing communications, sales management, and performance management.
Shelley’s passion is aligning leaders with their affiliated communities to execute intentional growth strategies that create places where people want to thrive. In that space, she is simply known for providing leadership to achieve project success.
For the past ten years, Shelley’s work has focused on community development projects including branding, facilitation for community planning, private-public partnerships, and project implementation initiatives for a few Indiana north central communities.
These projects represent large and smaller scale development projects for counties, downtowns and distressed neighborhoods. Projects include Elkhart Health and Aquatics, the Elkhart River District and various Elkhart 2040 initiatives for neighborhood redevelopment, Industry 4.0 talent development, opportunity zones, and other community development initiatives.
Shelley has marketing, advertising and international business degrees from The University of Akron and Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. She is a Copper Circle Kolbe Certified Consultant, a certified Natural Step facilitator for sustainability planning, 2022 Best of Elkhart in Management Consulting Services, 2020 Kolbe Professional Award recipient, 2019 Key to the City of Elkhart by Mayor Timothy Neese recipient, the 2017 Woman of the Year for the Elkhart Greater Chamber, an Addy Award recipient, a NAPW Woman of The Year, Key Business Partner of Specialized Staffing Solutions, and a 2007 Michiana Forty Under 40 recipient.
Shelley has been featured in various media outlets regarding her leadership, team and community development work.
Shelley is the owner and founder of Insight Strategic Concepts Inc., BLOOM Success Solutions LLC, and ISC Community Development LLC.