Professional Partners
Shelly Parks, Community Coordinator
Shelly Parks is proud to be launching 4th Corner Commons. Shelly brings her deep background in cohousing to this new community. Not only does she live in cohousing, but Shelly is a cohousing professional (Covision Consulting) and works with cohousing groups across the country. She also serves on the board of the Cohousing Association of the United States and on the executive committee. Most importantly, Shelly believes that cohousing offers us a way to live truly connected lives, the way we are meant to live. She is passionately committed to creating more cohousing opportunities in the Pacific Northwest and will act as the Community Coordinator for 4th Corner Commons.
Katie McCamant
Katie McCamant brings the depth and diversity of her 30 + years of experience as an architect, developer, and cohousing resident.
She is a licensed architect and coauthor of the authoritative book, Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves which introduced cohousing to the English-speaking world. Katie co-founded McCamant & Durrett Architects/Cohousing Company with Charles Durrett in 1987. In 2006, she and Jim Leach (Wonderland Hill Development) co-founded CoHousing Partners, a development company that partnered with cohousing groups. Today, she is the sole owner CoHousing Solutions, a development consulting firm that works with cohousing groups and developers across the US and Canada.
Katie has designed and developed dozens of cohousing communities in the United States and Canada. After 12 years living in and raising her daughter at Doyle Street Cohousing in Emeryville, she now lives at Nevada City Cohousing in the Sierra Foothills.
Danny Milman
Danny enjoys the development and construction process and honed her skills at all sides of the table, working as an owner’s representative, superintendent, and project manager. Her projects span a diverse portfolio including cohousing and podium deck condominiums, apartments, grocery stores, restaurants, office lobby remodels, tenant improvements, capital upgrades and maintenance, retail centers and, most recently, the renovation of the historic Curry Village food court in Yosemite National Park.
Her obsession with cohousing started with The CoHousing Book in 1992. Her Master’s thesis was a design and planning case study for a cohousing community in Austin TX. After graduation, she worked for several years at The CoHousing Company as part of the development and construction team and lived in the Berkeley Cohousing community.
These days Danny manages Urban Development + Partner’s (UD+P’) California projects from the Sierra Foothills in Nevada City, CA.
CoHousing Solutions
We're pleased to partner with CoHousing Solutions in Nevada City, a firm whose founder brought cohousing here to the U.S. with her partner, and co-wrote the authoritative book on the subject.
Urban Development + Partners
For UD+P, a great real estate opportunity is one that benefits communities, tenants, neighbors, local businesses and the environment. Their hands-on approach to financing, designing, constructing and managing properties is based on a long-term vision for their business and a commitment to operating in a way that supports the character and vitality of our cities and their residents.