Turning Space into PLACE: ReGen South Bend
From Cultivating Place by Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place
June 4, 2026 · 55 min
About this episode
Tyler Kanchazeski discusses transforming spaces into meaningful places through community engagement and sustainability efforts.
What makes a place a place, versus just any space? Tyler Kanchazeski is a sustainability advocate and the founder and owner of ReGen South Bend, an incremental development and community catalyst company based in the Near Northwest Neighborhood of South Bend, Indiana. Tyler brings business leadership, logistics, resiliency, and community experience to his work alongside neighbors to transform space into place, in order to cultivate people and their places well. Tyler joins Cultivating Place Host Ben Futa this week to share more. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.
People in this episode
Host: Ben Futa
Guest: Tyler Kanchazeski
Topics covered
- sustainability
- community development
- place-making
- local advocacy
- urban transformation
Keywords
- sustainability
- community
- place
- development
- ReGen South Bend
- urban
- transformation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ReGen South Bend, Cultivating Place
Places: South Bend, Near Northwest Neighborhood
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