Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, AICP is the principal and owner of Gelabert-Sanchez & Associates. He recently completed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and worked as a Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the fall of 2011….
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Gaurav Srivastava is an urban designer at AECOM in Los Angeles. His work, focusing on urban cores for both private and public sector clients, is driven by twin passions. First: to reduce the footprint of human habitation through compact and sensitive urban redevelopment in the city center. And second: to continuously reinforce the importance of the pedestrian experience as the defining experience of cities….
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Architect and urban designer Frank Fuller has spent his professional career acquiring and sharing the knowledge that have made him one of America’s leading urban design practitioners. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Fuller teaches in the Master of Urban Design program at the University of California, Berkeley, conducts many panels and charrettes in the United States, and has won numerous awards for planning, urban design and architecture. Fuller has written articles about urban design and urban redevelopment, including for Urban Land, and is chair of the Urban Design Committee for the American Institute of Architects, California Council….
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Christopher W. Kurz is currently President and CEO of Linden Associates, Inc., a regional real estate services and mortgage banking company engaged in the financing, acquisition, development and management of commercial property. The firm also consults for corporations on real estate matters. Previously, he was a Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of McGill Development Company, which grew into the fourth largest commercial real estate development company in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. Kurz served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Founder of Columbia Bancorp and The Columbia Bank that is a $500 million, publicly traded bank holding company. As a Principal at Alex Brown Real Estate Group, Inc. he acquired investments for pension fund clients. Other companies with which Kurz has been involved include J.G. Smithy Company, Maryland National Corporation, and the Rouse Company….
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Mark Shapiro has shaped the built environment as architect, planner, urban designer, author and educator. For more than 27 years he has developed master plans and designs for a broad range of market sectors, including corporate, education, cultural and civic projects….
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Ashley O’Connor is a real estate and management specialist with more than 18 years of experience in real estate planning, programming, transfer and development….
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In his work as a consultant, Mike Higbee has used his experience to help create plans and developments that have benefited cities across the country, including the Waukegan Lakefront/ Downtown Master Plan, Rockville Town Center Master Plan, Downtown Durham Master Plan, and the West Lafayette, Indiana Wabash Landing Development Project….
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Nadine Fogarty’s work ranges from site-specific development strategies to corridor- and regional-level planning efforts. She has worked extensively to plan for and implement TOD across the US, including projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, the Twin Cities, Houston, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Honolulu….
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Catherine Sloss Crenshaw is president and CEO of Sloss Real Estate, a multi-disciplined commercial real estate firm in Birmingham, Alabama. Under her leadership, the company focuses on urban development and revitalization in Birmingham’s city center and other projects that incorporate “healthy city” design principles….
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