{"id":1765,"date":"2016-05-03T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2016-05-09T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:09:19","slug":"durp-alumni-pitch-jacksons-first-tiny-home-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/2016\/05\/03\/durp-alumni-pitch-jacksons-first-tiny-home-development\/","title":{"rendered":"DURP Alumni Pitch Jackson&#8217;s First &#8220;Tiny Home&#8221; Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ashlee, Akili, and Jaynae Startup Weekend Jackson 2016\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1766\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/files\/2016\/05\/Ashlee-Akili-and-Jaynae-Startup-Weekend-Jackson-2016-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/files\/2016\/05\/Ashlee-Akili-and-Jaynae-Startup-Weekend-Jackson-2016-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/files\/2016\/05\/Ashlee-Akili-and-Jaynae-Startup-Weekend-Jackson-2016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/files\/2016\/05\/Ashlee-Akili-and-Jaynae-Startup-Weekend-Jackson-2016-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/files\/2016\/05\/Ashlee-Akili-and-Jaynae-Startup-Weekend-Jackson-2016.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\">Great ideas come from DURP planners and the &quot;TinyJXN&quot; concept is nothing short of ground breaking! &nbsp;Fellow DURP Alumni <strong>Ashlee Kelly, M.A.<\/strong>;&nbsp;<strong>Akili Kelly, M.A.<\/strong>; and <strong>Jaynae Young, M.A<\/strong>. joined forces with several others visionaries: &nbsp;David Kinsey, Brandon Worsham, Sunny Fridge a&nbsp;mentor, and Chris Watkins who provided music for the YouTube video. &nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\">They all participated in Startup Weekend Jackson and pitched Jackson&#039;s first &quot;tiny home&quot; develoment. &nbsp;There were a toal of 23 pitches and this great team was selected along with seven others. &nbsp;The concept is to create tiny homes in distressed area of Jackson and sell a minimalist lifestyle, and customized, eco-friendly and sustainable design. &nbsp;Target market of the homes are students, young professionals, first-time homeowners, and empty nesters.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\">As first place winners, they were awarded&nbsp;six month space at Coalesce, legal planning from Baker Donelson, marketing consultation from ThinkWebstore as well as a&nbsp;Office Depot gift card.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Additionally, they need support from everyone to follow their journey @TinyJXN on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great ideas come from DURP planners and the &quot;TinyJXN&quot; concept is nothing short of ground breaking! &nbsp;Fellow DURP Alumni Ashlee Kelly, M.A.;&nbsp;Akili Kelly, M.A.; and Jaynae Young, M.A. joined forces with several others visionaries: &nbsp;David Kinsey, Brandon Worsham, Sunny Fridge a&nbsp;mentor, and Chris Watkins who provided music for the YouTube video. &nbsp; They all participated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}