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Damon Hemmerdinger
@damonhemmerding
Creating real estate value through Placemaking. Builder-developer-housing provider; brownfield remediator; placemaker-in-chief @campnorthend.
Forest Hills, NY
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Feb 16
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    Ten Years, One Million Visits, and a New Beginning
    Ten years ago, we purchased a 76-acre vacant brownfield locked behind razor wire and covered in asphalt. Transforming it into @campnorthend – now a vibrant community of 95+ businesses, residents,...
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
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    May 4, 2024
    These two trucks have the same size beds.
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
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    Jul 14, 2025
    This was the thing that first radicalized me about the traffic engineer’s disdain for human safety. Why wouldn’t the guardrail separate the car and the sidewalk?
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    Andy Boenau
    @Boenau
    Jul 14, 2025
    Ever notice where they put the guardrail on busy roads? 🤔
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Aug 15, 2025
    It has taken **nine** years to get permission to re-pave this grade crossing.
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Apr 27, 2024
    Replying to @realEstateTrent
    There are temptations for teenagers everywhere, including NYC (where I grew up) — but: Only in NYC can you be confident that l your teenager will never drive drunk and will never get in a drunk friend’s car.
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Apr 29, 2024
    This ramp seems … ineffective
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
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    Oct 3, 2023
    Restauranteurs: Align your furniture with your business plan. The chairs on the left are “45-minute chairs,” encouraging quick turns of the table. The chairs on the right are “90-minute chairs,” encouraging long, lingering dinners with dessert wine and after dinner drinks. Can
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Dec 8, 2023
    Replying to @bykenarmstrong
    This series was amazing reporting - and the one lawmaker was right to be horrified!
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Jul 11, 2025
    Replying to @jasonc_nc and @hitsamty
    Crap. Now I have to follow you until your 50th anniversary to find out the punchline.
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Feb 2, 2024
    Landlords should want their tenants to have awesome signs. At Camp North End, we give a separate signage allowance (on top of our regular TI) to help ensure this happens.
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Jan 3, 2025
    Replying to @Tesho13
    Is there also a spiral slide down from the gondola passing overhead?
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Jul 19, 2025
    Houses on smaller lots are less expensive. Houses on smaller lots make better use of infrastructure Houses on smaller lots permit density And smaller lots don’t prevent those who want bigger lots - or rural lots on govt land - from living there. They just create more
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    ₿evan ⚡️
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    Jul 19, 2025
    Replying to @chrisbarber @Chris_Smeder and 8 others
    No idea why anyone would want / desire SMALLER dwellings or lot sizes. (points 3,5,6,7).. Priority one.. free up government locked land for the citizens to live on.
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Aug 9, 2023
    Favorite real estate terms. Who knows what this is called?
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    Damon Hemmerdinger
    @damonhemmerding
    Aug 20, 2024
    Replying to @DavidZipper
    Suggested friendly edit: “but both 8,000-lb pickups AND motorcycles are just fine.”
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