Community Development Events

Day 1 (April 5)

A Transformative Agenda for Cities and Older Places

• Transformation Investments: Unleashing the Potential of American Cities (2.74 MB)
  Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

Respondents' Panel

• Genesee County Land Bank (931 KB)
  Daniel T. Kildee, Treasurer, Genesee County, Flint, MI

The Numbers Are In: Lower-Wealth Markets Are Profitable

• Aligning Community Opportunity, Commercial Development, Retail Expansion
  (904 KB)
  Helen Dunlap, LISC MetroEdge Advisor, Chicago, IL
• Creating Sustainable Chicago Companies: Community-Based Small Business Development (349 KB)
  Stephen Maduli-Williams, President, Chicago Community Ventures, Chicago, IL

Addressing Foreclosure So Neighborhoods Can Prosper

• One Industry's Risk Is Another Community's Loss: The Impact of Clustered Mortgage Foreclosures on Neighborhood Property Values in Philadelphia (3.18 MB)
  Ira Goldstein, Director, Public Policy and Program Assessment, The Reinvestment Fund, Philadelphia, PA
• The Home Ownership Preservation Initiative in Chicago: Reducing Foreclosures Through Strategic Partnerships
  (309 KB)
  James K. Wheaton, Deputy Director for Programs and Strategies, Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Inc., Chicago, IL

Off the Streets and Into Permanent Homes

• Project H.O.M.E. (339 KB)
  Sr. Mary Scullion, Executive Director, Project HOME, Philadelphia, PA
• Continuum of Housing for the Homeless (381 KB)
  Deborah De Santis, Director, Corporation for Supportive Housing, Trenton, NJ
• Ending Chronic Homelessness: Is It Possible? (68 KB)
  Dennis Culhane, Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Day 2 (April 6)

Turning Around Downtown

• How Do You Size Up the Challenge? Reflections of Working in Three Cities, One County, and Two States Over 30 Years and Still Able to Tell About It (44 KB)
  Nancy Hadley, Director, City of Bridgeport Office of Planning and Economic Development, Bridgeport, CT
• Chattanooga: The Interplay of the Public and Private Sectors (3.59 MB)
  Kenneth S. Hays, Principal Partner, Kinsey Probasco Hays, Chattanooga, TN

The Art of Healing Neighborhoods

• Small Voices – Big Songs: HandMade in America's Revitalization Program (2.48 MB)
  Rebecca Anderson, Executive Director, HandMade in America, Asheville, NC
• Mural Arts Program: City of Philadelphia (8.36 MB)
  Jane Golden, Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA

Pursuing a Modern Vision for Our Waterfronts

• The City of Dubuque: Masterpiece on the Mississippi (5.28 MB)
  Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager, Dubuque, IA

Organizing Communities to Embrace New Solutions

• Community Organizing & Community Development (45 KB)
  Joe Fleming, National Staff, PICO National Network, Camden, NJ

Promoting Health in Low-Wealth Communities

• Promoting Health in Low-Wealth Communities (2.44 MB)
  Amy Hillier, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Promoting Health in Low-Wealth Communities: Physical Activity (1.39 MB)
  Deborah A. Cohen, M.D., Senior Natural Scientist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
• Practical Solutions to Promoting Health in Low-Wealth Communities (1.90 MB)
  Vanessa Briggs, Executive Director, Health Promotion
  Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania

Greening Raises Values

• Greening Raises Values in Philadelphia (11.5 MB)
  Susan Wachter, Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; J. Blaine Bonham, Jr., Executive Vice President, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, PA
• The Excellent City Park System: What Makes It Great and How Much Value Does It Bring? (452 KB)
  Peter Harnik, Director, Center for City Park Excellence, Trust for Public Land, Washington, D.C.

Bringing Urban Zoning Codes into the 21st Century

• Congress for the New Urbanism (22.7 MB)
  John Norquist, President and CEO, Congress for the New
  Urbanism, Chicago, IL
• Bringing Urban Zoning Codes into the 21st Century (17.7 MB)
  Leslie Gould, Director of Planning Services, Dyett and Bhatia, San Francisco, CA
• Zoning Reform in Chicago (3.36 MB)
  Lori T. Healey, Commissioner, City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Chicago, IL

Rural to “Rurban”: Evolving Terms and Strategies for a New Generation of Rural Communities

• Rural Opportunities, Inc.: Organizational Overview (929 KB)
  Lee Beaulac, Jr., Senior Vice President, Community and Economic Development, Rural Opportunities, Inc., Rochester, NY
• Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation: Creating Wealth in Kentucky – The Developmental Venture Capital Model (360 KB)
  Brenda McDaniel, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation, London, KY
• Getting Rural Infrastructure: It Isn't Really the Digital Divide, It's the Money Divide! (57 KB)
  Mark DeFalco, Manager, Appalachian Regional Commission,
  Washington, D.C.

Inventing New Assets Out of Old Transit

• Reconnecting America (1.42 MB)
  Gloria Ohland, Vice President for Communications, Reconnecting America, Los Angeles, CA
• Revitalizing and Rebuilding Low-Wealth Neighborhoods Near Old Transit: San Diego Experience (8.93 MB)
  Richard Juarez, Partner, Urban West Development, Bonita, CA
• Inventing New Assets Out of Old Transit (1.10 MB)
  Barry Seymour, Assistant Executive Director, Delaware Valley
  Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia, PA

From Liability to Viability: Reclaiming Abandoned Properties and Brownfields

• EPA Land Revitalization: Restoring Land for Communities (949 KB)
  Edward H. Chu, Acting Director, Land Revitalization, U.S.
  Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.
• National City
  James W. Keating, Jr., Executive Vice President, Investment Real Estate Department, National City Bank of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA
  • CDC Equity Investments (492 KB)
  • Residential (3.37 MB)
• From Liability to Viability: Reclaiming Abandoned Properties and Brownfields
  (959 KB)
  Charles Bartsch, Director, Brownfield Studies, Northeast-Midwest Institute, Washington, D.C.
• Timing Is Everything: Evolution of the Brownfields Market (851 KB)
  Jill A. Gaito, Director, Brownfields Action Team, Pennsylvania
  Department of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, PA

Day 3 (April 7)

Rebuilding New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Older Communities

• Rebuilding New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina (3.23 MB)
  Peter C. Werwath, Vice President and Director, Enterprise Advisors, Enterprise Community Partners, Columbia, MD.; John McIlwain, Senior Resident Fellow, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C.; Tanya Harris, Community Organizer, ACORN, New Orleans, LA; John Beckman, Principal, Wallace Roberts and Todd, LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Nancy T. Montoya, Regional Community Development Manager, New Orleans Branch, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, New Orleans, LA