{"id":2593403,"date":"2022-02-25T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldbusinesschicago.com\/?p=2593403"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:18:34","slug":"black-history-month-spotlight-548-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbusinesschicago.com\/black-history-month-spotlight-548-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month Spotlight: 548 Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbusinesschicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BHM-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2593404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldbusinesschicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BHM-4-300x245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contributor: Markayle Tolliver, Coordinator, Community Impact<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Business Chicago enjoys spotlighting inspiring Black &amp; Brown business owners and entrepreneurs, to help inspire and motivate the next generation of business owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, we present business owner and real estate developer, AJ Patton, CEO, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/548capital.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">548 Capital<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a real estate company designed to bring more energy-sustained housing to the city of Chicago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AJ Patton grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana but his entire mother\u2019s family is from Chicago\u2019s southside. Patton remembers a goal of his family from childhood that he shares \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018It was my grandmother&#8217;s dream for one of her grandchildren to go back to Chicago and make a difference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an young entrepreneur, AJ\u2019s advice to future entrepreneurs is \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFind a problem and solve it. A great business solves a problem for people or other businesses.\u00a0 Once you have figured out solutions, find a way to create space so that it is solved in an equitable way.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking his advice personally, Patton decided to join the business industry and make a difference. AJ shares his interest in the business industry \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI saw a gap in the market of renewable energy technology not being applied in diverse communities. I wanted to start a company to be a bridge for those technologies to be accessible and applied in a more equitable way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about AJ Patton or 548 Capital please visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/548capital.com\/about-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/548capital.com\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributor: Markayle Tolliver, Coordinator, Community Impact World Business Chicago enjoys spotlighting inspiring Black &amp; Brown business owners and entrepreneurs, to help inspire and motivate the next generation of business owners.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black History Month Spotlight: 548 Capital | World Business Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbusinesschicago.com\/black-history-month-spotlight-548-capital\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black History Month Spotlight: 548 Capital | World Business Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Contributor: Markayle Tolliver, Coordinator, Community Impact World Business Chicago enjoys spotlighting inspiring Black &amp; 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