The Baltimore Blueprint with Brendan McCluskey
From Purpose 360 with Carol Cone by TruStory FM
April 7, 2026 · 35 min · Episode 222
About this episode
Brendan McCluskey discusses how Trident Builders is addressing Baltimore's interconnected challenges through innovative housing solutions and community collaboration.
Baltimore faces a set of deeply interconnected challenges: aging and unsafe housing, high energy costs for families with limited means, and a generation of underemployed youth struggling to access meaningful work. These overlapping issues reveal a systemic gap highlighting an opportunity to rethink how housing, workforce development, clean energy, and economic mobility can be addressed together. We invited Brendan McCluskey, President at Trident Builders, to share how his team is tackling these challenges through a bold and collaborative model. Brendan explains how Trident Builders is transforming vacant homes into energy-efficient housing using modular construction and solar technology while creating training and job pathways for underemployed youth. He also shares how partnerships across business, nonprofits, and community leaders are helping scale solutions. This discussion offers a compelling look at how one company is rethinking the role of business in solving complex social problems and how leaders across sectors can identify opportunities within their own work to build solutions that strengthen communities. Listen for insights on: Supporting small, community-based…
People in this episode
Host: Carol Cone
Guest: Brendan McCluskey
Topics covered
- housing
- workforce development
- clean energy
- economic mobility
- community collaboration
- social problems
Keywords
- Baltimore
- energy-efficient housing
- modular construction
- underemployed youth
- community-based developers
- economic mobility
- sustainability
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Trident Builders, The Bmore Co-Op
Places: Baltimore
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