Description. The Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence aims to support the next generation of urban redevelopment leaders. The Center does this by placing promising young professionals in Fellowships with top redevelopment organizations nationwide. The Fellowships are two-year project management jobs at a host redevelopment organization, with mentorship from senior staff. The Center also enhances the Fellows’ individual field experience with technical training, leadership development, and exposure to different markets, organization structures, and cases addressing both physical and non-physical redevelopment issues. Finally, by sharing their work with each other and reflecting on their own experiences in a structured way, the Fellows internalize this information and exposure more quickly than most practitioners. They emerge from the program able to use these experiences and insights as effective urban redevelopment entrepreneurs.