Urban Land Institute Advisory Services Panel Offers Recommendations, Options For Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor
Recommendations To Be Presented on Friday, May 21
For more information, contact: Robert Krueger, 202-624-7051; Robert.krueger@uli.org
LOS ANGELES (May 14, 2010) – An advisory services panel from the Urban Land Institute will be examining the Cleantech Corridor (CTC) in Los Angeles to provide recommendations and alternatives for the project’s redevelopment. The Community Redevelopment Agency – Los Angeles (CRA/LA) is sponsoring the panel.
Their goal is to provide answers to the questions surrounding the redevelopment of an old industrial site east of downtown. The initiative is part of the Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and CRA/LA’s long term vision of transforming the site into the world’s top clean technology manufacturing corridor. The Mayor expects the corridor to encourage the development and attraction of business and green collar jobs, putting Los Angeles at the forefront of the clean technology revolution.
“We expect to receive valuable recommendations from ULI that will make the CleanTech Corridor a national model for transforming an old, downtown industrial core into an incubator for green jobs and technology,” said Villaraigosa. “I look forward to learning more about how to make Los Angeles the global capital of clean technology by leveraging development trends such as sustainability and green urbanism that will create good-paying green jobs.”
Next week’s 10-person panel will spend five days touring the subject area as well as meeting with stakeholders and members of the local community. After carefully analyzing the area and interviewing up to 100 individuals, the panel will then spend two days framing their recommendations and drafting a report which will be presented to the public on May 21, 2010 at the Kyoto Grand Hotel.
“Cleantech is really at the intersection of ULI’s sustainability mission and the new global economy that is emerging in large metropolitan areas,” said Panel Chair John M. Walsh, president, TIG Real Estate Services, Inc., Carrolton, Texas. “We think this an excellent opportunity evolve existing industrial into a Green-21st century economic engine.”
In addition Panel Chair Walsh, other panel members include: Brian T. Coleman, chief executive officer, Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center, Brooklyn; Thomas Curley, AIA LEED AP, Thomas Curley Associates LLC, New York; Ron Golem, principal, Bay Area Economics (BAE), Emeryville, Calif.; Diana Gonzalez, president, DMG Consulting Services, Miami; Jim Heid, founder, UrbanGreen, LLC, San Francisco; Jeff Kingsbury, managing principal, Greenstreet, Ltd., Zionsville, Ind.; Ralph L. Nunez, president/design principal, Design Team Limited, Southfield, Mich.; Sharon E. Pandak, partner, Greehan, Taves, Pandak & Stoner, PLLC, Woodridge, Va.; and Michael A. Stern, principal, Strada, Pittsburgh.
Through the advisory services program, ULI assembles experts in the fields of real estate and land use planning to participate on panels worldwide, offering recommendations for complex planning and development projects, programs and policies. According to Tom Eitler, Vice President at ULI, the strength of the panel program lies in ULI’s unique ability to draw on the knowledge and experience of its nearly 30,000 members, including land developers, public officials, academics, lenders, architects, planners and urban designers.
This analysis from a wide variety of land use experts, coupled with substantial input from representatives of the communities, produces excellent results “time after time,” Eitler says. “The panel process helps build consensus to support an effort that benefits the entire community. It’s often the fresh, outside view provided by the panel that achieves these results. We seek possibilities and opportunities that might have been overlooked. The advisory services panel program is all about seeing things a different way.”
ULI teams approach the project from all perspectives, including market potential, land use and design, financing and development strategies, and organizing for implementation. Each team proposes practical solutions that serve as a blueprint to move the project forward. Panelists have developed strategies for a broad range of land uses, including downtown revitalization; retail/entertainment development, inner-city neighborhood revival, affordable housing, brownfields development, public facility sites such as stadiums, arenas and convention centers, transit-oriented development, resort and master-planned communities, and military base reuse.
Past sponsors of ULI advisory services panels include: federal, state and local government agencies; regional councils of government; chambers of commerce; redevelopment authorities; private developers and property owners; community development corporations; lenders; historic preservation groups; non-profit community groups; environmental organizations; and economic development agencies.
For more information on the ULI Advisory Services panel for the Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor, go to: http://www.uli.org/cleantech
About the Urban Land Institute:
The Urban Land Institute (www.uli.org) is a global nonprofit education and research Institute supported by its members. Its mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Established in 1936, the Institute has nearly 30,000 members representing all aspects of land use.
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