This class introduces students to community economic development in the Chicago area through cases, speakers, and experiential engagement. Students learn about the process behind multi-million-dollar community development projects and engage directly to help concept-stage projects become reality and attract planning and development capital. Student teams are matched with the leaders of a pre-development project and are tasked to create two cases for investment - one for impact investors and the other for mainstream and real estate investors. Students present their assessment of the project opportunity to the Investment Committee for Kellogg's dedicated student investment fund and propose (or counsel against) a real pre-development loan for the project.