Cleveland Port, Submitted by Michael W. Lanstrum, Envisioning Cleveland Photo Contest

Thursday, April 30, 2009
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs Atrium
Cleveland State University
Glickman-Miller Hall
1717 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115

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The Forum is pleased to partner with the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, the Urban Land Institute, Cleveland, the City of Cleveland and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance to engage the public in a discussion about the unprecedented opportunity for economic transformation on Cleveland’s lakefront. Speakers will highlight successful waterfront regeneration projects that have transformed other places, share best practices and present possibilities for Cleveland. The forum’s objective is for people to come away with an understanding of the opportunity that Cleveland has before it by redeveloping 100 acres of prime lakefront land currently occupied by the Port.

Become part of the process of shaping how our community can leverage precious assets and mold an exciting new future for the City of Cleveland and surrounding areas.

5:30 p.m. Welcoming Remarks
Ned Hill, Professor and Interim Dean, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
Cliff West, Chair, ULI, Cleveland District Council and Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Land Development Services, Colliers Ostendorf-Morris

5:40-6:10 p.m. Overview of Redevelopment Plans
Adam Wasserman, President and CEO of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority
Bob Brown, Director, Cleveland City Planning Commission

6:10-7:10 p.m. Panel Presentation
Eric Anthony Johnson, Ph.D., Real Estate Director, Port of Cleveland, Moderator
Tom Murphy, ULI Senior Resident Fellow and former Mayor of Pittsburgh
David Taylor, CBE, United Kingdom; Chairman of Silvertown Quays Limited
Juan Alayo, Development Planning Director for Bilbao Ria 2000.
Stanton Eckstut, Principal, Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects

7:10-7:30 pm. Questions and Discussion

Port of Cleveland Press Release: Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority chooses planning firm for downtown waterfront development

Port of Cleveland website

"Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects to be recommended to design Cleveland's new downtown waterfront" in The Plain Dealer, Architecture and the Urban Landscape, by Steven Litt.

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