Urban Frontier LLC was formed by Paul Dodds to buy and do quality renovations of distressed, National Register of Historic Landmark properties in the Little Rock Central High National Historic District.  Paul first started buying and redoing old homes over thirty five years ago, beginning with an 1860 four story brick house on "Quality Row" in Cambridge, Mass.  Before getting to Little Rock, Paul also renovated properties in Kiev, Ukraine and Berlin, Germany where he lived and worked.  Paul is a Harvard Law trained corporate lawyer and policy advisor.  He has worked in Europe. Asia and Africa on technical assistance projects for development agencies including USAID, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the British, German and Dutch governments.  He continues to work part time overseas to feed his "bad house" habit.   

Paul moved to Little Rock in 2003 to work on the Wesley Clark campaign, becoming very actively engaged in community life, including serving as the President of the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas and as an adjunct professor at the local law school teaching a seminar on "Ruins and Weed Lots". These homes are a passion and, with luck and persistence, will provide a reasonable pension.  They have been redone and are being maintained with a long term perspective. 

Urban Frontier relies with gratitude on a great crew of tried-and-true crafts and trades people to keep this all going and in great shape.  We cannot praise Arkansas' community lenders highly enough, including Simmons Bank, First Community Bank, the Forge and the truly great Bank of Little Rock.  Their engaged support is a model for banking as it should be. 

See http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulddodds for more information. 

Thanks for the interest and we hope to hear from you soon.