ABOUT HASA CORPORATION
Member of National Association of Government Contractors
Hasa Corporation was created in 1989 to evolve urban
housing with new models of updated spatial and material
ideas invented by the principal and employing adaptations
of historic principles and introducing new construction
technology.
Innovative, affordable urban housing was in short
supply in the 1990s and urban housing stock was deteriorating
rapidly throughout the Eastern United States. NIMBY
proponents, stiff building code requirements, lax enforcement
of building codes, obsolete zoning, bureaucratic and
slow functioning administrators, trade union requirements,
archaic designs and lack of consumer enthusiasm plagued
cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta, Newark, Philadelphia and metropolitan New York.
Hasa's principal
Ed Bowe approached these daunting obstacles with an
effort to develop a successful path through this urban
quagmire with “Eyes Wide Open”. The Hasa urban
housing models envisioned await building, but the boom/bust
cycle is again in full decline arising from a former
cycle (1976-1994).
Commencing in 1994 the latest national
housing cycle reached its zenith in 2007 before a rapid
decline in 2008 leading to another cyclical drop in
the most recent housing period. The time is here again
in the recessionary trough to implement “green
design”, use of superior materials, new technologies,
new wiring schemes, smart house ideas from the housing
industry, An industry that evolved ideas championed
by Hasa principal Bowe. An industry now fabricating
concepts proposed in the 1980's by Hasa Corporation's
principal.
Financing schemes and development efforts were tried
and abandoned during the 1990's. New relationships must
be built to carry out this vision. Hasa Corporation
added four new efforts as it moves into the 21st
Century later half of the first decade of the
new millennium. The ownership and management of habitational
units in the high desert of Arizona, an international
temporary shelter solution, the restoration of an historic
Chicago landmark building and the rebuilding of classic
British cars are all involved in recent building efforts.
Principal- Edward Bowe b.1946, Fremont, Ohio, BS in
Education, Ohio State University
Principal Development History:
1973 – First urban multi-unit historic preservation
project- restoration on Historic Magnolia Street
1976 – Second urban multi-family project- restoration
on Historic Clarendon
Street (National Register of Historic Places)
1979 – Third urban project-restoration on Historic
Argyle Street–First Elevated building (National
Register of Historic Places)
1982 – Fourth urban multi family historic project-
restoration on Clarendon Street (National Register
of Historic Places)
1985 – Launched as co-founder cooperative Housing
Association–EUBA
1985 – Oversight of Public Housing–City
of Chicago–Scattered Site Program
1988 – Oversight of Public Housing–City
of Chicago–Metropolitan Planning Council –
High Rise projects
1989 – Launch Hasa Corporation – startup
1989 – Reorganize and serve as one of first
Directors of Uptown business development corporation-
UPCORP
1989 – Lawrence Avenue Redevelopment Task Force
1979-2005 – Director Community organization
- UCC
1992 – Creation of Historic Lawrence Broadway
Entertainment District
1994 – Land acquisition for first urban home
site-Historic Ukrainian Village area
1995 – Wilson Yard Task Force
1999 – Creation and web manager of the UptownChicago
website
1998 – Sale of Urban home site to develop housing
for survivors of Hurricane Andrew
2002 – Purchase of apartments, Prescott, AZ
2002 – Launch preservation effort for Old Cook
County Hospital, Beaux Arts Historic property
2004 – Additional rental purchase , Prescott,
AZ
2005 – Reorganized and participated as parent
member – New School Committee IAMS for daughter's
school
2005 – Temporary Shelter invention conceived
2006-2008 – Build and test Prototype shelter
2005-2008 – Preserve Classic car collection-
Prescott Jaguar Collection
1979-2008 – Risk Management consultation practice
for Chicago based Managers, Developers, Entrepreneurs
and Asset Managers
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