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Advancing Places: Investing Downtown

Overview: This spring, six urban place management leaders from around the U.S. worked collaboratively to define critical investment issues facing urban place management organizations (UPMOs). Learn about their conclusions regarding office to housing conversions, retail reinvigoration, shifts in messaging and the internal structure of the traditional UPMO.

Friday, October 18, 2024 | 12:00pm ET (9:00am PT) 

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Domain: Economic Development

Pricing: IDA Members: Free | Nonmembers: $40

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:

  • Molly Alexander, Founder & CEO, ITP Consulting (Austin, TX)
  • Whitney Hoffman Sayal, Executive Director, Baton Rouge Downtown Development District (LA)
  • Claudia Freeland Jolin, Executive Director, Baltimore Peninsula Partnership (MD)

Moderator:

  • Carolyn L. Dellutri, CAE, CMSM, CTP, Director of Professional Development, IDA

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn to identify your community’s unique strengths and avoid blindly copying policies or practices from other communities. 
  • Explore how downtown retail is changing and what it will take to bring it back. 
  • Develop strategies to effectively communicate your district’s value to policymakers, considering potential shifts in their priorities and evolving needs. What changes might you consider when discussing investment and new legislation for your district? 
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of your current structure and the traditional role of your UPMO staff and board.  

LPM | 1 IDA LPM professionals can earn credit hours for this webinar. More information about IDA’s Leadership in Place Management certification program can be found here.

CM | 1 AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits for this webinar. More information about AICP’s CM program can be found at www.planning.org/cm

Speakers

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Molly Alexander

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Claudia Freeland Jolin

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Whitney Hoffman Sayal

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Registration information: When registering for a webinar, please complete the sign-up as yourself and not your organization. If additional staff would like to attend the same webinar, each individual must register as themselves to receive their unique login link. Questions? Email registration@downtown.org.

By registering for this webinar, you are agreeing to IDA Event Agreement and Code of Conduct.

IDA is committed to making our educational sessions accessible to everyone, regardless of ability, and to reasonably accommodating the assistive needs of our members, attendees and partners. We are actively working to increase the accessibility of our offerings. In so doing, we strive to comply with the available standards and guidelines under the Americans with Disabilities Act and related laws to the greatest extent possible. If you are having trouble accessing an IDA offering, or have a question regarding session accessibility features, please contact IDA at registration@downtown.org for assistance.

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