YIMBY News for 7/21

[Eric Budd]

What’s Working: Repurposing old stuff in Colorado can be profitable

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.55. affordable, affordable housing, construction, growth, house, housing, income, project, rent, transportation

------------------------------ *Tamara Chuang* *Business/Technology Reporter* Reduce, reuse and recycle are the three R’s in the world of sustainability. Damon Carson has a fourth one: Repurpose. That’s not the same as reuse, he says. “A typical reuse is if you own a boat and decide you don’t want it anymore, you put it on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace and somebody buys it. There’s a 99% chance they’re going to use it as a boat,” said Carson, founder of Westminster-based RepurposedMaterials. “Repurposing is reuse but life No. 2 is very different from No. 1.” Carson takes a different appro

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