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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)