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The Gritty Cities program was a huge success. With nearly 200 people in attendance, important and timely information was shared.

THE PROGRAM:

12:00 Noon Optional Tours - Box Lunch Included
a) Canco Lofts, Residential Adaptive Re-Use of container manufacturing facility
LEED Gold certified apartments, first in New York City
b) The “W” Hotel, Hoboken, NJ
c) A. Harry Moore, an original public housing project and a tour of HOPE VI Housing by Maria Maio, Executive Director, Jersey City Housing Authority
d) The Beacon Revisited, Jersey City - Residential Adaptive Re-Use of Art Deco Hospital
e) Hamilton Square, Jersey City - Residential Adaptive Re- Use, New Construction of St. Francis Hospital 

INTRODUCTION &
ULI PROGRAM MODERATOR: Robert Antonicello, Executive Director, JCRA

WELCOME: Robert Antonicello

GREETINGS: Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy
 
Plenary Session:
2:30 pm to 3:45 pm

If All the World Were New Jersey: The past and future of Garden State Cities

Key Note Speaker: Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University

Kenneth T. Jackson is Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, where he has also chaired the department of history. Professor Jackson is the editor-in-chief of the 1.4 million word (an average book has about one-twentieth that many words) Encyclopedia of New York City, which was published in a single, 1373 page volume in 1995 by Yale University Press.

Although he has been welcomed to Windsor Castle by Queen Elizabeth II, to Lambeth Palace by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to the White House by President Clinton and to the Governor’s Mansion by George Pataki, Professor Jackson is most at home in the subways, back streets, and gritty neighborhoods of New York City, where he has been leading all-night bicycle rides, three-hour walking tours and all-day bus trips for decades. At Columbia, he teaches courses in urban, social and military history and can often be found in the gymnasium playing basketball with students. In 1989, the students of the college honored him as teacher of the year and gave him their 28th annual Mark Van Doren Award for “humanity, devotion to truth and inspiring leadership.” In 1993, Playboy Magazine named him as one of the most popular professors in the nation. In 1996, Columbia President George Rupp appointed him co-chairman of the University’s 250th anniversary commemoration. In 1999, the Society of Columbia Graduates chose Professor Jackson for its annual Great Teacher Award. In 2001, the New York Council for the Humanities selected him as New York State Scholar of the Year.

3:45 pm to 5:00

Panel #2 The Future is Urban
Cities in 2050, Creating Blueprints for Change
City in 2050 (publication included with registration)

In only 42 years, when we mark the midpoint of the 21st century, cities around the world will have experienced unprecedented growth–serving larger and more diverse populations than ever in world history. The quest to balance market pressures, public policy goals, and land use decisions in a fast-paced global marketplace will be more challenging than ever. The City of 2050: Creating Blueprints for Change explores the changes facing metropolitan areas, illustrated through interesting facts and charts on topics such as the impact of capital markets, climate change, sustainability, transportation and infrastructure needs, demographic trends, housing, retail and technology.

The rising significance of urban development as a solution to public policy goals presents new choices and trade-offs for all involved decision makers.

• How will the growth impact the development community going forward?
• How can cities and communities be shaped to meet present needs while empowering future generations to meet theirs?
• What must we do now to create value in the City of 2050?
• How can today’s investments achieve both attractive returns and long- term outcomes?

Already, we see a rising wave of innovation responding to new markets, technologies, and regulations. How will development and land use professionals help guide public and private investment to best achieve attractive and investors act to meet their needs while empowering future generations to meet theirs?

Round Table: Moderator: Robert Antonicello, Executive Director,
Jersey City Redevelopment Agency

Dr. James W. Hughes, Dean, Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy at Rutgers University

Anton Nelessen, AIA of A. Nelessen Associates, LLC

5:15 pm Network Cocktail Reception

Thanks to our LOCAL SPONSORS:
Landmark Developers, Inc.
Liberty House Restaurant

Much appreciation to our CO-SPONSORS:
Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy
American Planning Association
New Jersey League of Municipalities