Make the campus edge work harder.
Compare housing, learning and partnership options before committing land or capital.
See the illustrative diagnostic →Strategy for institutions and places
More homes.
Stronger institutions.
Thriving places.
We help universities, communities and investors turn underused assets and local strengths into practical projects and partnerships.
Led by Dominic Endicott
Strategist, investor and co-author of Knowledge Towns
Capital × Institution × Place
Connect the assets. Establish the economics. Define the first move.
A clear place to begin
The Knowledge
Town Diagnostic.
In six to eight weeks, establish what your institution and place could become, which options hold up, and what should happen first.
- 6–8
- weeks
- 3
- future scenarios
- 5
- project priorities
- 24
- month agenda
Compare mission, demand, economics and delivery risk. Choose what to advance, test or stop.
How we work with you →The work, made concrete
Three opportunities.
A practical next decision.
Our work connects institutional strategy, real estate and regional opportunity. These examples show how we frame the decision.
Turn neighboring strengths into shared opportunity.
Wellesley–Needham: explore how institutional collaboration could connect to housing and talent.
Explore the independent proposal →Connect innovation to everyday opportunity.
Lowell: examine how learning, employers and neighborhoods could form a citywide pathway.
Explore the independent proposal →Illustrative work and independent proposals; no client relationship or institutional endorsement is implied.
100 Knowledge Towns: New EnglandA growing field guide to places and possibilities.Explore the Atlas ↗Ideas for the next decision
The Advisory Brief.
Places & housing
From research parks to real neighborhoods
Why adding homes is only the beginning of a more useful innovation district.
Read the briefingUniversities & place
The campus is a platform, not a boundary
What the Permeable University means for institutional strategy and regional partnerships.
Read the briefingCapital & delivery
Before the master plan, build the decision case
Five questions that connect campus housing to institutional renewal.
Read the briefingThe Knowledge Towns Advisory Brief
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Experience across
strategy, capital and place.
Dominic is a strategist, investor and co-author of Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets. He brings a 20-year consulting career across four continents to the practical work of institutional and regional renewal.
Knowledge Towns assembles specialist teams around each assignment, connecting the expertise required to reach a decision and move it forward.
About Dominic and Knowledge Towns →Start with your decision