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December 17, 2008 at 4:25PM
Jon Commers
Jon Commers (Rhonda Prast/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Jon Commers is founder and principal of Donjek, Incorporated. His projects focus on navigating placemakers - planners, developers, engineers - through financial feasibility and analysis, with an emphasis on facilitating public-private sector negotiations.
Jon also writes the Cents of Place blog, a forum for discussion of the financial issues around placemaking. In addition to his work with Donjek, Jon is a member of the Planning Commission for the City of St. Paul, Minnesota. He has served as a Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute Policy Forum, and as an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the College of Saint Catherine.
Jon holds an MBA (University of Saint Thomas, St. Paul, MN) and a BA in History and Political Economy (Carleton College, Northfield, MN).

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