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Sunday, 04/27
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Registration
Monday, 04/28
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM Run/Walk on the Canal
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration
Breakfast Buffet
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Opening Plenary
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Façade Improvement Programs
Providing Homes and Studios for Pioneering Artists
Filling the Gap: Campaigning for Your Real Estate Projects
Is Main Street Right for Your Community?
Developers and Communities Working Together
Lessons from the Street
12:15 AM - 1:45 PM Hot Topic Luncheon
1:15 PM - 3:30 PM Historic Fountain Square
Sports Arenas in the Urban Core
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Negotiating TIFs to Better the Community
Building Rapport and Engaging Culturally Diverse Businesses
Trends in Mixed-Use Development
The Credit Crisis: Understanding Its Impact on Your Economic Development Projects
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Generating New Investments with Sports Arenas
Targeting Vacant Properties to Revive Commercial Corridors
Franchising Options as a Commercial Revitalization Strategy
Comprehensive Plans Lead to Sustainable Futures
Universities as Technical Assistance Providers
Connecting Communities: Using Information to Drive Change
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Welcome Reception
Tuesday, 04/29
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM Run/Walk on the Canal
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast Buffet
8:15 AM - 11:30 AM Phased Development along Massachusetts Avenue
Creative Conversion on the Near North Side
9:00* AM - 10:15* AM Interpreting Demographic Data for Retail Attraction Efforts
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Interpreting Demographic Data for Retail Attraction Efforts
Street Audit Workshop: The Public’s Role in Assessing and Improving Streets
SafeGrowth: Second Generation Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)
10:15* AM - 11:30* AM Understanding the Retail Market Place - Data Sources for Self Diagnosis and Planning
11:45 AM - 1:30 PM Lunch at the Forum
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Successful Theatre Redevelopment Stories
Special Assessment Districts
Inclusive Development: Community-focused Development in Diverse Neighborhoods
Getting from Here to There: Transportation that Links Neighborhoods, People and Corridor Revitalization
Retaining Local Businesses in the Face of Neighborhood Change
Green Retailing
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Engaging Youth on Your Commercial Corridors
Historic Preservation as a Catalyst for Redevelopment
Applying New Markets Tax Credits
Managing City-Wide Corridor Revitalization Programs
Commercial Leasing Strategies
Supermarkets—Food for Thought and Action
Wednesday, 04/30
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast Buffet
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Closing Plenary
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM Revitalizing Commercial Corridors through Innovative Design
Creating Publicity for Your Neighborhood
Anchoring Institutions
Approaches to Attracting Local and National Retailers
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Capitalizing on History for Tourism
Using Indicators and Data for Program Evaluation
Successful Public Markets
Change is a'Coming, Be Part of It: Emerging Federal Public Policy