October 25 - 27, 2010, InterContinental HarborCourt Baltimore

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Sessions

9:00am - 10:30am

Revitalizing Communities: Taking Care of Small Business Development

Session description: Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the changing landscape of small business development and entrepreneurship, as well as the increasing importance of this sector to the community development field—particularly in terms of job creation, wealth building, and community leadership development. Additionally, the session will explore the different approaches to deepen and enhance the overall impact of entrepreneurship on regional economic development strategies.

Jean Horstman, Chief Executive, Interise
Darrin Redus, Chief Economic Inclusion Officer, JumpStart Inc.
Hussein Samatar, Executive Director, African Development Center
Brad Whitehead, President, Fund for Our Economic Future (moderator)

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Additional Reources:

• The Public Conversation Project
  The Public Conversations Project guides, trains, and inspires individuals, organizaitons, and communities to constructively address conflicts relating to values and worldviews.
• Global Business Network
  GBN specializes in helping organizations adapt and grow more effectively and more responsibly in the face of mounting uncertainty — whether it's uncertainty about their future, the future of their industry, or the future of the world at large. Founded in 1987 and part of Monitor since 2000, GBN works in close partnership with leading companies, governments, and nonprofits to help them address their most critical long-term challenges.
• The Desphande Foundation
  The Deshpande Foundation has recently launched a new Initiative called the Merrimack Valley Sandbox.  It is based upon the success of the foundation's initiatives at MIT and in Northwest Karnataka, India.  This is a new initiative of the foundation to develop and enhance an innovation ecosystem in the cities of the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts, including Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill.

Creating Cooperation: Building Regional, Equitable Transit-Oriented Development

Transit-oriented development (TOD) and transit investments are important economic development strategies that can lead to local and regional competitiveness and job growth. These strategies are most effective when created through partnerships that incorporate community resident-led planning, and include participation by government, business, advocates, foundations, and neighborhood institutions. This panel will feature three speakers who will examine how their participation in public and private partnerships can effectively implement TOD strategies in innovative ways to enhance local and regional economic growth, and what have been the outcomes thus far. Session attendees will understand how transit investments and TOD can be the catalyst to form the necessary alliances and partnerships to effectively plan and implement sustainable communities.

Heather Hood, Initiative Officer, Great Communities Collaborative
Darnell Grisby, Policy Director, Reconnecting America (moderator)
Brian O’Malley, Director, Central Maryland Transportation Alliance
Jonathan Sage-Martinson, Director, Central Corridor Funders Collaborative

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Learning from Abroad: Lessons from Cities in Transition

This session will highlight best practices in revitalizing older industrial cities through innovative land use strategies in the United States and Germany. Speakers will address lessons to be learned from the German experience and engage the audience in discussion of how these lessons might be best applied or adopted in the U.S. This session will highlight Leipzig, Germany, where leaders are implementing an integrated, cross-agency strategy that combines center city revitalization with the targeting of funds to key neighborhoods, strategic investments in rail and other infrastructure, the innovative reuse of former industrial spaces, creation of green spaces and the development of new housing and homeownership models.

Lavea Brachman, Executive Director, Greater Ohio Policy Center (moderator)
Dan Kildee, President, Center for Community Progress
Tamar Shapiro, Director Comparative Domestic Policy, German Marshall Fund

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11:00 am – 12.30pm

Leveraging Transit-Oriented Development for Community Benefits

Large public infrastructure investments such as transit are being increasingly leveraged as opportunities for Community Benefits—such as local hiring, affirmative recruitment into construction apprenticeships, permanent-job living wages, set-asides for locally owned businesses, and affordable housing. Taxpayers, having experienced the data-rich Recovery.gov website, expect greater transparency on government spending for job creation. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is no longer just “community development;” it is also workforce and economic development. Come hear about best practices from the Partnership for Working Families and Good Jobs First, with a workforce development perspective from Jobs for the Future.

Richard Kazis, Senior Vice President, Jobs for the Future (moderator)
Greg LeRoy, Executive Director, Good Jobs First
Leslie Moody, Executive Director, Partnership for Working Families

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Urban Serving Universities – Community Anchors

Universities are powerful assets for revitalizing cities. As place-based anchor institutions, they can provide leadership, knowledge, capital, land, people and other resources to improve the quality of life and vitality in their communities and regions. However, for community, city and regional organizations it can be quite daunting to figure out how to work with them. This session will first outline the various assets that universities bring to the table and the wide-ranging ways they can be deployed for the overall good of the community. Session panelists will then examine partnerships at two universities—Case Western and Johns Hopkins University—to illuminate how to engage with a university, put a partnership together, what makes partnerships successful, and what pitfalls to avoid.

Margaret Carney, University Architect and Planner, Case Western Reserve University
Andy Frank, Special Advisor to the President, Johns Hopkins University
Shari Garmise, VP of Urban Initiatives, Coalition Urban Serving Universities (moderator)

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Retooling Urban Manufacturing for Cities in Transition

Learn about the vision and story of two coalitions focused on promoting advanced manufacturing as an economic and community development strategy: the Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council (CMRC), and the Great Lakes Wind Network. CMCR is a broad-based partnership in Chicago that promotes advanced manufacturing. The Council founded a public high school and an industrial incubator designed to help rebuild the Austin Community. CMRC has intervened to improve the manufacturing programs in the community college system, and other measures to improve the workforce development infrastructure in Chicago. Often working in partnership, CMRC is promoting market diversification for local companies with the Great Lakes Wind Network to manufacture wind turbine components. The Great Lakes Wind Network (GLWN) works nationally to build broad relationships between the international wind turbine companies and cities, community development professionals, local companies and others. It has recently initiated a program to localize new business opportunities for the full range of companies needed to construct wind farms. These new markets highlight the high end of the green economy and the portal to real community and economic development for our nation. The Network is working to position Northeast Ohio manufacturers and the region as a global supply chain leader in the utility wind turbine market.

Adam Friedman, Director, Pratt Center for Community Development (moderator)
Dan Swinney, Executive Director, Center for Labor & Community Research
Ed Weston, Director, Great Lakes Wind Network

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3:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Local Learning Tours

East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative

This visit will be an in-depth opportunity to see and learn about ground-breaking efforts towards responsible redevelopment in one of Baltimore’s most economically and physically depressed neighborhoods. Participants will have the opportunity to see successful historic redevelopment south of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Campus, to the efforts underway to renew a community development effort north of Hopkins. The tour will highlight new and renovated housing developments and the emergence of a new signature high rise residence in the project area. The tour will include visits to development activity that is building on the strength and promise of East Baltimore Development Incorporation’s efforts, including an iconic historic renovation of a non-profit headquarters.

The Role of Arts in Place-Making

Just north of Baltimore’s Penn Station, artists and arts organizations are making major contributions to rebuilding the Greenmount West and Charles North neighborhoods in Central Baltimore. After suffering decades of population loss and disinvestment, these communities are becoming a lively home to working artists, tenants and homeowners. Participants of the tour will see local venues, such a gallery work and live space for artists and low income renters currently under development; the tour will also provide information about the role of the arts and entertainment district, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Local entrepreneurs and residents to will also share their perspectives.

Red Line Tour

The proposed Red Line is a 14-mile east-west transit line that will provide connection between the Woodlawn area of Baltimore County, West Baltimore communities, downtown Baltimore, Inner Harbor East, Fells Point, Canton, the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center — making travel in these heavily congested corridors simpler, faster and cheaper. The Line will offer enhanced mobility at an affordable price and an improved quality of life, providing people with public transit access to jobs, downtown sports, cultural and entertainment events. During this tour participants will travel along part of the proposed transit line, learning about Line development and opportunities that will be created by this transit connector. Tour participants will meet coordinators and partners of this effort; in addition, participants will learn about workforce development and job opportunities connected to this project.

Here is an interesting piece about a new audio documentary—about the impact of the East-West Expressway plan on West Baltimore, the creation of the Highway to Nowhere, and new projects underway, including the Redline, to stitch the neighborhood back together. Feel free to take a listen: http://soundcloud.com/bad-crow/rooted-unrouted-west

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