Rapper T.I. is giving fans a look at this future endeavors in urban development.
In a short clip posted to his Instagram page, Tip rolled up on a construction site in the Bankhead area of his hometown of Atlanta to give viewers a peek into his first building's progress and explain why he's focusing his energy and funds on the site.
“Checking on my development here on Bankhead right here,” T.I. said in his video, after pulling up in his car to the construction site. "It used to be the old K-Mart," where he and his grandmother used to visit. "Now we got affordable housing, he says. "This is our first project that’s a development... proud of it.”
“We’ve got affordable housing, 143 units going up," he adds. "Mixed-use community. We about 40 percent done, we supposed to be done sometime next year.”
“Since everybody’s somewhat from here, let’s see what you done did for here, ya dig? Imma show mine,” Tip said. Atlanta born and raised, the rapper and business mogul launched his “Buy Back The Block” program with APD-Urban Planning and Management and Dynasty Real Estate Development in 2017 aiming to buy properties in Tip’s childhood neighborhood and flip them into affordable housing for the community.
“I didn’t want it to be one of those situations where luxury condos go up and people who are native are pushed out to the fringes because they can’t afford to live there," T.I. explained to Inc. magazine in 2018. "I wanted to provide development that would allow people from the area, who love the community, to be able to afford to stay,” he said.
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Back in 2017, T.I. dropped the news that he had “three more albums in my head already conceptualized... Once I get them out, I’m done," he said, naming Kill The King as his final release. With that album announced as having a 2021 drop date, it seems he's keeping good on that promise and will be focusing on his new venture in urban development for the forseeable future.
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