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Overview: Join this webinar and hear insights on what’s next for downtowns, city centers and neighborhood districts given the pandemic’s impact on shifts in demographics, lifestyles and competition. Many trends are being accelerated and disrupting entire economic segments and industries. Our panelists will provide proactive recommendations on adapting to and getting ahead of trends shaping our cities. A focus on strategies for downtowns’ storefront economy will be offered, a key to economic recovery.
January 29, 2021 | 11:15am ET (8:15am PT)
Domain: Planning, Design and Infrastructure
Pricing: IDA Members: Free | Nonmembers: $40
CM | 1
AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits for this webinar. More information about AICP’s CM program can be found here
Advancing Places is an online series aimed at empowering IDA members with the solutions needed to address the most critical urban issues of the day. This session will include a moderated Q&A and will be recorded for member and nonmember use in the future.
Speakers:
- Michael J. Berne, President, MJB Consulting (Berkeley, CA and New York, NY)
- Brad Segal, President, Progressive Urban Management Associates (Denver, CO)
Moderator:
- David Downey, President & CEO, International Downtown Association
Speakers
Michael J. Berne
President, MJB Consulting (Berkeley, CA and New York, NY)
As the President of New York City and San Francisco Bay Area-based MJB Consulting (MJB), Michael Berne is one of North America’s leading experts and futurists on Downtown and Main Street retail as well as the retail industry more generally. He is a regular speaker at IDA conferences and has served on IDA’s Board of Directors, including a term as the Vice Chair of its Executive Committee.
Brad Segal
President, Progressive Urban Management Associates (Denver, CO)
P.U.M.A.’s founder and president, Brad Segal, has extensive experience in downtown management and community development as both a practitioner and consultant. A self-proclaimed “urban therapist,” Brad is one of the nation’s leading authorities on downtown trends and issues, reinventing downtown management organizations and forming business improvement districts to finance them, and pioneering efforts to create healthy communities. Prior to establishing P.U.M.A. in 1993, he designed and managed economic development programs as senior director of the Downtown Denver Partnership.
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