Meet Nick

Nick Mitchell is the owner and principal at Maplewood Planning. Nick is a veteran of the US Navy Seabees where he served as a Construction Electrician before attending University of New Mexico supported by the GI Bill. Nick studied philosophy at UNM and went on to complete a Masters of Urban Planning degree at University of Illinois. Before starting Maplewood Planning, Nick worked for over a decade in housing and community development, as an organizer, as a manager of federal community development grants at the municipal level, as a Vice President of Housing and Community Development at the nonprofit level and as a Directing Analyst for a national nonprofit focused on solutions to homelessness.

Nick is a local of Central Illinois.