Ilana Preuss is the founder and CEO of Recast City, working with local leaders, real estate developers, and civic leaders to integrate space for small-scale producers into redevelopment projects and place-based economic development. She is also the creator of the Recast Leaders program. Passionate about making great places, Preuss views small-scale manufacturers as a missing piece in real estate and economic development efforts. She is the author of Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing. A public speaker on entrepreneurship, downtown reinvestment, small-manufacturing growth, and equitable economic opportunity, her TEDx talk is “The Economic Power of Great Places.”