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Place Making
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Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Transit Villages, and Main St
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Session #: 0275-x
Presenter(s): Panel
Session Length: 15.75 hr.
Program: 2007 ULI Conference
Date: September 2007
What's Included in the Packages
Audio Package includes
- Audio CDs-For use in your car or portable CD Player
- MP3 and iPod Audiobook files-To use on a computer or download to your iPod
AudioPoint Package includes
- Combination of Powerpoint with embedded audio played thru your computer
- DVD-ROM with AudioPoint and iPod Video files
- If no visual is available then MP3 will be substituted
Download includes
- iPod Video - For use on a computer or download to your iPod
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Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Transit Villages, and Main Streets
The essence of place making is the creation of economically vibrant, aesthetically attractive, lively and engaging, pedestrian-friendly places. Increasingly, another factor is coming into play—sustainability—leading to an increased focus on infill, mixed-use, walkable, and transit-served development projects as critical components for building healthy and enduring communities. However, delivering these dividends continues to be full of challenges for both developers and public officials.
This year's conference will focus on approaches that are being used across North America to support mixed-use place making projects. The conference will draw on the success of our host city, Toronto, and will also address the challenges inherent in both infill and greenfield place making including neighborhood opposition, complicated financing structures, public/private partnerships, changing markets, and unfriendly regulatory environments.
Panelists:
Russell Albanese;
G.B. Arrington;
Charles Bohl;
Michael Bohn;
John Campbell;
Jim Cloar;
Howard Cohen;
Rick Cole;
Art Cueto;
Robert Daigle;
Jeff Deis;
Carmin Di Fiore;
Michael Dieden;
Michael Ermisch;
Frank Giannone;
Ralph Giannone;
Alan Goodkin;
Robert Gregory;
Randy Grimes;
Greg Handberg;
Lee Huang;
Steven James;
Shyam Kannan;
William Kreager;
Jackson Lehr;
Cary Lowe;
Mary Madden;
Dan McCaffery;
Midge McCauley;
Dwight Merriam;
Garrett Newland;
Dene Oliver;
Steven Oubre;
Katherin Perez;
Timothy Pula;
Max Reim;
Howard Schlesinger;
Helle Søholt;
Debra Stein;
Ted Tyndorf;
Marilee Utter;
Meg Walker;
David Wasserman;
Howard Weitzman;
Gary Wright
Program includes
- Infill Place Making: Creating Mixed-Use Environments on Underutilized Land
Growing interest in housing and retail in existing cities and suburban downtowns opens new opportunities for transforming underutilized sites into vibrant new places. Infill, adaptive use, and redevelopment projects offer unique opportunities to leverage established community identity, architecture, and history to create a sense of place. Our expert panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities of developing mixed-use projects in existing communities.
- The Value of Great Public Places in Town Centers and Urban Villages
There is no question that great public spaces can create impressive development returns. Be among the first to hear the results of a soon to be released study, The Economic Impact of the Great Public Space, conducted by The Project for Public Spaces. Then, hear from developers who have succeeded in the high-cost, high visibility environment that surrounds these prized public amenities.
- Mixed-Use and Sustainable Development
Concern about global climate change has reached a tipping point. Not only are local jurisdictions enacting new regulations, but the policy discussion on "carbon credit" regulatory schemes is likely to affect the development environment as well. Join us in what is sure to be a provocative discussion on what the green frontier will mean for mixed-use projects and learn from industry pioneers who are working up the learning curve.
- Keynote Address: The Art of Innovation with Jonathan Littman
In The Art of Innovation Littman demonstrates how the best ideas for creating or improving products or processes come not from laboriously organized focus groups, but from keen observations of how regular people work and play on a daily basis. Lauded as one of the best books on creativity and innovative thinking in the marketplace, The Art of Innovation directs you to think in new and counterintuitive ways.
- The Changing Housing Mix in Town Centers and Urban Villages
Diverse housing options help create vibrancy and financial success for many mixed-use projects. Explore a variety of housing options with proven track records of successfully anchoring mixed-use projects. See how these options can strengthen a mixed-use project, attract diverse residents, and achieve success in an ever-changing market.
- Zoning for Place Making: Public and Private Perspectives
Making great places sometimes requires breaking the zoning rules—often an expensive proposition. In response to this growing practice, many communities are changing those rules—i.e. creating special districts or changing the zoning focus from use-based standards to form-based codes. We will examine these new zoning regimes to determine whether they deliver better development for communities and more flexibility for developers.
- Getting to Yes: Strategies for Mixed-Use Project Approval
Resistance to change is a perennial development challenge—particularly for infill, mixed-use projects which, by definition, must contend with existing neighbors. This unique session uses a live mock charrette format to examine the choices developers must make and how those choices can affect the chances of winning community approval. Learn techniques on how to engage and address community issues, which concessions to make, which to avoid, and how to deal with the assumption that change itself is bad.
- Main Street Retail: Old and New
New town center projects work to re-create the scale, social interaction, and pedestrian environment that defined commercial districts in traditional towns and cities. At the same time, traditional commercial districts are working to redefine their competitive edge and take advantage of the market's enthusiasm for "authentic" places. Explore the two faces of traditional development by exploring some of the best old and new main streets.
- Opening Remarks with Helle Søholt
- Financing Mixed-Use: Which Way is the Wind Blowing?
Has mixed-use development emerged as a desirable candidate for mainstream capital markets? What led ULI to predict continued interest in infill and mixed-use development in its 2007 Emerging Trends in Real Estate Report? Hear from the experts what investors are looking for in mixed-use projects and what financing tools are out there to create new places.
- Transit-Oriented Development: Urban Centers in Suburban Contexts
Increasing interest in transit nationwide has led to a growing market for transit-oriented development, increasing transit options on the rails, roads, and waterways, and growing interest in living in traditional streetcar suburbs. Explore new trends that are expanding and evolving the transit-oriented development model.
- Place Making In Toronto
Toronto offers a rich laboratory of place making strategies: significant investment in arts and cultural institutions as downtown "anchors"; intensification of development at suburban subway system station areas; and redevelopment along the waterfront are the three areas of focus for this session. Key public sector leaders and private developers will share best practices and lessons learned from several high-profile projects.
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