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The 2017 LOCUS Leadership Summit featured an exceptional group of real estate developers, investors, local elected officials, and transportation professionals who came together to discuss a range of topics affecting walkable, urban development in the United States today.

The Summit’s speakers talked about cutting-edge ideas for public/private partnerships, local and federal policy, place-making benefits, and more. If you are interested in a recap of what got discussed, all of this year’s speaker presentations are below.

Opening Plenary: P3 is for Partnerships, Placemaking, and Policy

• Paul Morris, President & CEO, Atlanta Beltline
• Robert Tuccillo, Associate Administrator for Budget & Policy, Federal Transit Administration
• Dennis Allen, Founder and Partner, Urban One

From Distressed to Promising: Addressing Today’s Challenges to Neighborhood-level Economic Development and Placemaking

• Shannon Morgan, Senior Vice President, HRS Communities
• Deon Gordon, Director of Business Growth, REV Birmingham

Solving the National Housing Crisis

• Clyde Holland, CEO and Chairman, Holland Partner Group

Transforming Communities Now: The role of Federal Policy on Local Catalytic Development Success

• Catherine Sloss Jones, President and CEO, Sloss Real Estate

Beyond P3s: How to Make a Project Viable when Public/Private Partnership is not Enough

• Bob Stevens, President, Stevens & Associates
• Craig Miskovich, Director and Practicing Attorney at Downs Rachlin Martin LLP, and a principal for M&S Development
• Calvin Gladney, MOSAIC Urban Properties

Are you the next “Amazing Place”? the New Recipe for Economic Development

• Mayor Jacob Day, Salisbury, MD
• Hon. Christopher Zimmerman, Vice President for Economic Development, Smart Growth America

The New Walkable Suburbs: Transformation to Amenity-Rich Neighborhoods

• Don Monti, Founder and CEO, Renaissance Downtowns
• Mayor Elizabeth Kautz, Burnsville, MN
• Brandon Palanker, Founder, 3BL Strategies

Five Local Policy Changes to Attract Economic and Equitable Development

• John Hempelmann, Founding Partner & Chairman, Cairncross & Hempelmann
• Daniel Schned, Federal Transit Administration Office of Budget & Policy

From Policy to Implementation: The Do’s and Don’ts to Achieve Affordable TOD

• Melinda Pollack, Vice President, Enterprise Community Partners
• Mike Kingsella, Executive Director of Oregon LOCUS, and Development Manager, Holland Partner Group
• Justin John, Program Analyst, Office of Budget and Policy, Federal Transit Administration

“LOCUS Shark Tank” dealmaking presentations

• Lee Goldstein, Project Manager, Government of the District of Columbia, Office of the Deputy Mayor of Planning & Economic Development
• Larry Hopper AICP, Principal Planner/Planning Manager, EMBARK, Oklahoma, OK
• Sue Schwartz FAICP, Planning Department Director, City of Greensboro, NC

Thank you so much to all of our speakers for sharing their insights, and to our conference participants for diving in to these important conversations.

The Summit may be over but networking opportunities are still available: keep the conversation going by becoming a LOCUS member today.