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"In its simplest form, sustainable progress means making sure that our actions today will provide us with the kind of life we want to live in the future."


Workshop Information by Track


Session 1:
    9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Session 2:   10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Session 3:    2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.


Track: Urban Policy

  • Picking Winners: Ways to Target Subsidies and Permit Assistance (Session 1)
  • Soil Clean-up Standards: Impact on Brownfields Redevelopment (Session 1)
  • State Housing Policy & Redevelopment (Session 2)
  • Drivers of Redevelopment: A Market Analysis (Session 3)


TRACK: PLANNING AND DESIGN

  • Unleashing Light Rail’s Redevelopment Potential (Session 1)
  • Reviving Dead Malls (Session 1)
  • Rethinking Auto-Dependent Corridors (Session 2)
  • Making Good Design Work for Redevelopment (Session 2)
  • Deciphering Indicators of Neighborhood Change (Session 2)
  • Arts & Culture as Vehicles for Redevelopment (Session 3)
  • New Brunswick's Redevelopment Experience (Session 3)


TRACK: LEGAL, TECHNICAL & FINANCIAL

  • Legal Update: The Redevelopment Law and Eminent Domain (Session 1)
  • Redevelopment 101: How to get started (Session 1)
  • The Role of Parking in Redevelopment (Session 1)
  • Overcoming Communities' Anxieties about Redevelopment (Session 2)
  • Redevelopment Finance: Making the Deal Work (Session 2)
  • Using Historic Preservation for Redevelopment (Session 2)
  • Moving from Vision to Implementation: The Somerville Landfill Plan (Session 3)


Track: Sustainability

  • Building and Sustaining Mixed-Income Neighborhoods (Session 1)
  • Achieving Sustainable Redevelopment: More than Just 'Green' (Session 2)
  • LEED-ND: A new Framework for Sustainable Neighborhood Development (S. 3)
  • Harnessing Redevelopment to Fight Climate Change (Session 3)