Newport Cove, Neighbor

Susanne Tauke likes transforming places that have become old and tired, remaking them into something fresh and new.

The president of New American Homes got her first taste of redevelopment work during her 15 years working under a Home Builders Association program to bring new single-family homes and townhouses to Chicago's South and West Sides. Today she is redeveloping a tiny corner of the far Northern suburbs in unincorporated Antioch called Newport Cove.