Essential Housing’s First Female Developers Break Ground on Leon Place

Congratulations to emerging developers Terica Lamb of Electrify Me and Tamara Brown of 93 Octane for breaking ground on new single-family housing in Smokey City. Both are graduates of the inaugural 2025 Emerging Developers Academy.

“Development initially, for me, seemed so far out of reach… I can truly say that this Emerging Developers Academy and Rasheedah Jones are who helped change all that for me. Because once I got to Emerging Developers Academy, is really when I began to understand what development actually is.” – Tamara Brown

On September 21, 2026 / Housing

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