{"id":261,"date":"2012-12-10T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challenge.dev2.formbox.biz\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2012-12-10T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:22:17","slug":"fellow-spotlight-vadim-avshalumov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/fellow-spotlight-vadim-avshalumov\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow Spotlight: Vadim Avshalumov"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Question: Tell us about your company.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Answer: I work For Rock Ventures, an umbrella entity formed to provide operational coordination, guidance, and integration of Dan Gilbert\u2019s portfolio of companies, investments and real estate. \u00a0People are often more familiar with Quicken Loans, which is one of the family companies.<\/p>\n

Question: Describe what you do for your organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Answer: I am part of Rock Venture\u2019s Detroit team.\u00a0 Basically, we try to fix downtown Detroit.\u00a0 We focus on anything from cool events downtown, to security, to improving downtown\u2019s first floor retail.\u00a0 I have two main projects: holiday programming and place-making.\u00a0 Holiday programming entails working with fellow teammates and the wonderful people at the Downtown Detroit Partnership on creating a great sense of place downtown for the holidays.\u00a0 This includes holiday lighting all around downtown (my personal favorite) to organizing street performers to helping organize a broomball league in Campus Martius.\u00a0 My other project is public space place-making.\u00a0 Seven key downtown stakeholders are trying to activate some of Downtown\u2019s struggling public spaces and I am on a team responsible to get community input for what people want to see (we have had several workshops) and then create a strategy for how will implement these improvements.\u00a0 We are going to start with short-term, lighter, quicker, cheaper improvements this spring!<\/p>\n

Question: What makes working for your company unique?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Answer: I think what makes Rock Ventures (and its family of companies) so unique, is that it does everything it can to allow you to succeed.\u00a0 You have access to a computer with any software you may need, you can call \u2018the guy\u2019 to take care of any pesky technology issues, and there are snacks readily available if you get hungry.\u00a0 Basically, the company\u2019s senior leadership is saying \u201cWe\u2019ll take care of all the little stuff and you just focus on the task at hand\u201d.<\/p>\n

Question: Why do you enjoy working in downtown Detroit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Answer: It\u2019s great being downtown because all the action is down here.\u00a0 One day I heard Bob Dylan was in town, so I left my office real quick to buy a ticket at the Fox Theater and went right back to work.\u00a0 Another time I was working and decided I wanted to go to a Tigers game.\u00a0 I looked on www.stubhub.com, bought my friends and myself tickets and just walked to the stadium.\u00a0 One of these days I\u2019ll get restless at work and decide to go ice skate for a half hour across the street at Campus Martius park and then get back to my desk.\u00a0 Where else in this region can you do these things?<\/p>\n

Click here to check out Vadim\u2019s spotlight video!<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to read Vadim\u2019s blogs!<\/a><\/p>\n

Contributed by Fellow Vadim\u00a0Avshalumov<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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