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On the Hot Seat

He seeks to build community and turn a profit

Kirk Sykes, president of the Boston-based Urban Strategy America Fund. Kirk Sykes, president of the Boston-based Urban Strategy America Fund. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)
By Jenifer B. McKim
Globe Staff / June 7, 2009

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Kirk Sykes, president of the Boston-based Urban Strategy America Fund, strives to create affordable housing and economic development with a solid return to investors. His projects include Olmsted Green, the fund's first investment and mixed-use development in Mattapan that was built from the ground up. The development started selling condominiums this fall. Sykes's efforts are being tested during a recession ... (Full article: 695 words)

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