Joey Vossen,, LEED AP, is a real estate attorney with a master's degree in urban and regional planning. Vossen’s practice focuses on land use law, sustainable development, and government approvals at Larkin Hoffman, Minneapolis, Minn.
Before streetcars brought city dwellers out to bedroom communities and highways paved the way to sprawling cul-de-sacs, apartments lined the top of commercial storefronts throughout cities big and small.