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Benefiting from a schizophrenic youth split between the west side of Chicago and western Iowa Carmody developed a keen appreciation for central cities and Main Streets. Schooled as a city planner in the Midwest and the North of England, Carmody is a devoted urbanist with special interest in regenerating depressed local economies.
Following a ten-year career as a tavern-keeper, Carmody led two different community development organizations in rust belt cities of the USA�s Midwest and has provided more than forty communities throughout North America with consultant services.
Since 2007 Carmody has served as President of Detroit�s Eastern Market Corporation (EMC) where he leads the non-profit tasked with converting one of the nations� oldest and largest public markets into a healthy urban food hub.
Eastern Market seeks to build the MOO Food Shed (Michigan, Ontario, Ohio) into the nation�s most robust regional food system by building alternative distribution methods to improve access to good food in underserved communities, by fostering new niche local food processors to increase food sector employment - creating new markets for food that will be grown in the City of Detroit, and by further enhancing Eastern Market as a compelling retail food destination.
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