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Ken is an active entrepreneur and real estate developer in the Philadelphia area. He serves as President of Tevah Housing, Inc., Weinstein Properties LLC, and partner in Brinton Housing Partners, LP, Germantown Development Associates LLC, Philadelphia Development Associates LLC and 401 Dekalb Associates LLC, which have renovated and restored more than 150 vacant and deteriorated commercial and residential units in the Philadelphia region during the past 18 years.

Ken founded and operated Cresheim Cottage Café from 1996 until 2004 and owns Trolley Car Diner, Deli and Ice Cream Shoppe since 2000, both of which are located in Mt. Airy. Along with Stan Smith, Ken has been invited to speak annually to a group of 35 NFL players at Wharton’s Sports Business Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania about investing in real estate and the restaurant business.

Previously, Ken served as Chief of Staff for Philadelphia City Councilwoman Happy Fernandez from 1991-1995 and currently serves as a 9th Ward Democratic Committee Person and chair of the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District. In 2007-2008, Ken headed Mayor Michael Nutter's economic development transition team and has been appointed by the mayor to the Board of the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation and by the Montgomery County Board of Commisioners to the Montgomery County Economic Development Task Force.

In 2004, Ken was awarded the Business Leader of the Year Award by West Mt. Airy Neighbors, in 2005 was given the Community Service Award by the Center City Proprietors Association and in 2006 was named one of Philadelphia’s 101 Connectors by Leadership Philadelphia.

Stan has been an active real estate developer for the past twenty years, concentrating on the neighborhoods of Mt. Airy, West Oak Lane, and Germantown in the northwest section of Philadelphia.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, finishing high school at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, graduating in 1979. Stan graduated with a B.S. degree from The University of Massachusetts in 1983; he continued his education at Temple University’s Real Estate Institute and received his Pennsylvania real estate license in 1988.

During his first ten years in real estate development, Stan concentrated on residential properties primarily for first time home buyers. During that time he purchased, renovated, and sold more than 150 homes in Philadelphia. Over the next five years he accumulated a portfolio of six multi-family, garden style apartment buildings, ranging in size from 11 to 42 units. During this time he accumulated and managed around 150 units.

More recently, Stan's primary focus has been on the development, renovation, and management of more than 250,000 square feet of professional office and retail space throughout Philadelphia. All renovation and/or construction have been performed by his minority owned company - SmithHouston Inc. (www.smithhouston.com). Stan focuses on customizing and fitting out professional office space for non-profit organizations.

Over the years, Stan is best known for his expertise in sheriff’s sale purchases and the creation of value through investment in distressed real estate. The residential division of his company maintains a monthly presence at the Philadelphia sheriff’s sale.

Stan has shared his knowledge of the sheriff's sale process by leading several sheriff's sale seminars for real estate educational groups. Along with Ken Weinstein, Stan has been invited to speak annually to a group of 35 NFL players at Wharton's Sports Business Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania about investing in real estate.

Stan recognizes the importance of community development through responsible real estate investment and has made this an important goal for his company. Throughout his real estate career, Stan’s focus has been the same – creating value while strengthening blighted neighborhoods.

Bob Kaufman is a real estate developer and consultant specializing in projects that deliver community development impact.

As partner in Brinton Housing Partners, LP and 401 DeKalb Associates LLC since 1997, Bob has utilized private capital to renovate more than 35 residential units and 15 commercial buildings. These commercial projects range from small, historically-significant SEPTA train stations and Fairmount Park properties, to retail storefronts in his own neighborhood of Mount Airy, to adaptive reuse of a vacant 4-story Bell Telephone building-which combine to house 25 tenants in 80,000 square feet of space.

At the same time, Bob has provided consulting services to a wide variety of non-profit organizations interested in developing real estate. By working closely with both Executive Directors and Boards of Directors, Bob has helped organizations to focus on real estate tasks and understand their options-identifying properties, estimating capital costs, obtaining financing, managing construction, monitoring budgets, reporting to lenders, and managing lease-up.

From 1987-1997, Bob was President of the Octavia Hill Association, a citywide for-profit housing organization with a long history of housing reform and property management. Under his guidance, OHA modernized its property management systems, reallocated its assets and sold off gentrified properties in order to reinvest proceeds in the development of affordable rental housing, and became active developers in several neighborhoods around the city where it already owned properties and had a vital stake in stabilizing the real estate market.

By pairing its own capital with public dollars (below-market loans from the Redevelopment Authority and Federal Home Loan Bank, foundation grants, and equity from Low Income Housing Tax Credit syndications), Bob led Octavia Hill into 6 projects, producing 166 units of both rehabilitated and new housing, totaling $13,800,000 in total investment.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies and a master's degree in City Planning. His initial interest in community organizing turned into positions directing community development-first at Southwest Germantown CDC and then as Executive Director of the Neighborhood Development Alliance in West Oak Lane.

Bob sits on the board of Awbury Arboretum Association, was past President of Henry Home and School Association and Mount Airy Business Association, and has served on the boards of East Mount Airy Neighbors, Mount Airy Community Computer Center, and Mount Airy Schools Committee.