City Different: Achieving Smart Growth in the U-District
If you have the chance we'd suggest you make it over to the Riverpoint Campus this Wednesday afternoon for the first U-District Community Forum. The City of Spokane has lined up a great list of speakers to share and discuss how other cities (like Vancouver, BC) are combining smart growth and higher education districts to create sustainable, vibrant, and innovative neighborhoods. Together these two approaches represent an economic development opportunity like no other in the Inland Northwest.
Here's the lineup:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
- Gordon Price - Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University
Mr. Price will discuss how cities and universities near Vancouver B.C. are creating
livable and innovative neighborhoods in an emerging university district.
Mr. Price writes, teaches and consults on urban development and planning. He
served six terms as a council member for the City of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1986 to 2002, as well as on the board of the Greater Vancouver Regional District and TransLink.
PANEL MEMBERS:
- David Sucher, author & developer – His book, City Comforts, illustrates the critical elements that make places more livable, vibrant and comfortable.
- Susan M. Horton, Chairman, CEO & President-Wheatland Bank-Wheatland Bank is a local independent community bank that thinks differently. Wheatland Bank has backed innovativeand progressive urban development projects throughout Spokane and Eastern Washington with Sue’s leadership and vision.
- Facilitator- Bill Grimes, Principal of Studio Cascade - Studio Cascade is an awardwinning, Spokane-based community planning and design firm.
WHEN:
- October 25, 2006 from 3-5:30 p.m.
- Riverpoint Campus, Phase 1, Classroom Building, Main Auditorium
- 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd., Spokane, WA (MAP)
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