Owner
Flywheel Community Development Services LLC
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Ryan Kilpatrick is the owner and founder of Flywheel Community Development Services, a municipal and small developer consulting firm that works to create momentum toward local community development initiatives. Ryan has experience working as a consultant for large and medium-sized cities like Grand Rapids, Holland and South Haven, as well as smaller villages and townships like Bridgman, Fennville, and Interlochen.
Ryan has a background in economic development, affordable housing, community design, and public finance. As the founding Executive Director of Housing Next, he has helped to define access to housing as a core economic development issue for West Michigan through data-oriented dialogue and partnership with employers, local municipalities, chambers of commerce, and developers. In the first four years of work, Housing Next has supported work to adjust community master plans and zoning ordinances across more than a dozen communities and has partnered with 22 different development organizations to support more than 4,200 new housing units in Ottawa County.
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