John Edel

John Edel is the Founder and Director of Bubbly Dynamics LLC, a social enterprise dedicated to creating replicable models for ecologically responsible and sustainable urban industrial development. His expertise in circular economy practices has produced job-generating, closed-loop spaces that merge historic preservation with economic opportunity. Through urban rehabilitation projects like The Plant—a former meatpacking warehouse in Chicago’s Union Stock Yards, Edel has revitalized disinvested communities, turturned food deserts into vibrant hubs of edible innovation, enhanced community health, and built economies of scale.