Louisville, Kentucky, United States
They call me the Black Jesus to Black Wallstreet, Mansa Musa in his prime, or my favorite, 44 Warburg. I'm not new to this, I'm just true to this. This is Chess not checkers! Timothy Cox, President of West Louisville Dream Team, is a local developer and sweat equity philanthropist nicknamed "The Gorilla of Community Economic Development". He started his career at 18 as a special education teacher at Sacred Heart Montessori UCDC. He has owned multiple companies starting in 2005 with a small vending machine business to working with Slip N Slide Records then moving on in 2013 to start a construction business as a HUD contractor followed by JW Marketing Kentucky, partnering with civil rights era business magnate "JW" Stokes Jr, who was lead corporate sponsor to Martin Luther King Jr. for The Poor Peoples Campaign. In 2017, Timothy assisted minority small businesses by organizing a construction group that worked with the Building Trades Unions to implement new bonding and insurance rules on The Omni Hotel project, which increased minority participation from 3% to almost 27% for which his team received a "Living Legend" award and standing ovation in Frankfort, KY during a special session of the KY State House of Representatives. In 2021, Timothy served as Chairman of United Development Council, a division of National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Louisville Chapter. Since 2015, Timothy has been honored as Ambassador to Mound Bayou, Mississippi and serves as lead community economic developer for the Mound Bayou Movement, World Conference of Mayors and the Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance. His role with his company, West End CDE Inc, A Federally Recognized Native American Entity of the U.S. Treasury, has been pivotal in changing the narrative and increasing access to capital for Native American, black and brown people. Timothy was recently awarded for his work in community economic development, globally, in Cannes, France, by The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Timothy's latest community economic development special project, Unity Trade Route, partnered with King Oklepeme Sasraku II of Ghana, is a multinational collaboration between the United States and Africa to implement cross border trade of Native American, black and brown products and services. Timothy is currently assisting the African American Council of Elders, based in Wichita, KS, as they develop 500 acres in Somanya, Ghana for Wasenor, a 7th Division Tribe of the Yilo Krobo, created as a migration destination for African Americans that want to come back home to Africa.
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West End CDE Inc is a Federally Recognized Native American Community Development Entity of the U.S. Treasury specializing in Community Economic Development. West End CDE Inc works with investors and shareholders to implement growth and redevelopment strategies in low income communities through real estate, tax credits, fund structuring, public-private partnerships and joint venture partnerships. Our team is qualified to control and manage every aspect of a private or public-private land development from concept to structuring, bond financing to design-build to property management to operations. We are your total solution for project development. We offer a hands off approach for property owners to maximize tax benefits and incentives while creating a generous stream of income for generations through real estate.
Commerce West Initiative is designed to address pitfalls in community organization, systemic access, business collaboration and work readiness. The West End NGO is the public arm of the organization. It is designed to tie into the local economic development ecosystem within a community. Each Small Business Unit and Division is organized with a strategic management structure to increase market efficiency by collaborating with personnel and businesses through sustainable collective operational groups. The West End NGO interacts with businesses by advocating for increased hiring and purchasing from within the community. The West End NGO administrates a robust apprenticeship training program designed to evolve with market needs in work readiness. The core functions of the West End NGO are Marketing, Collateral Support Services, Urban Trades and community-based Buying Groups.
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