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December 17, 2021

NCST Webinar on Optimizing Opportunities for Housing from Failing Shopping Malls

TPR links here this December 2nd webinar from the National Center for Sustainable Transporation assessing the potential for turning failing malls in California into mixed-use development and housing.

December 16, 2021

Reimagining Homelessness & Mental Health: Kerry Morrison on 'Radical Hospitality' & Lessons from Trieste, Italy

Kerry Morrison, the former director of the Hollywood BID and Founder of Heart Forward LA, articulately and boldly shares with TPR readers her Durfee Foundation supported journey researching the “failures” of the US mental health system; and, what LA and California could learn about radical hospitality from a European city with a robust community-based approach—Trieste, Italy.

December 8, 2021

CEO Steve Glenn on Integrating Design, Sustainability, & Efficiency in the Prefab Custom Home Market

TPR sat down with Steve Glenn, CEO of Plant Prefab, to afford him an opportunity to share how his company is infiltrating single and multifamily housing markets with custom designed prefabricated homes to deliver healthy and sustainable buildings by design and at scale.

December 8, 2021

Building A Transformational Physical & Metaphorical Bridge: Scott Kratz on DC’s 11th Street Bridge Park Project

Scott Kratz, Senior Vice President of Building Bridges Across the River, is leading the multi-jurisdictional effort to transform an aged-out freeway bridge into a seven-acre civic space crossing the Anacostia River in Washington, DC.

December 8, 2021

CEQA Protects California Despite Special Interests’ 'Big Lie'

TPR shares here with permission this column by Roger Lin (pictured), attorney at the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA), and Douglas Carstens, partner with Chatten-Brown, Carstens & Minteer, LLP, debunking the myth that CEQA is to blame for California's housing affordability crisis.

November 11, 2021

State of Multifamily Housing - Related’s Bill Witte Interviewed by Richard Green

From the BisNow Multifamily Annual Conference West, Richard Green and Bill Witte, discuss the state of multifamily housing and the impacts that Covid-19, remote work, and state housing policy are having on real estate project development, housing affordability, and risk management.

November 11, 2021

DJ Waldie's Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place

TPR excerpts DJ Waldie's new book Becoming Los Angeles—a collection of essays blending history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Angelenos see themselves and their city.

November 11, 2021

The Transformation of a Lutheran Church into a Multicultural Center & Multi-faith Worship Space

In this TPR interview, Co-Founder/Executive Director of the Village Exchange Center, Amanda Blaurock, discusses the journey begun in 2017 to convert an existing Lutheran church in Aurora, Colorado, into a multicultural community center and multi-faith worship space to serve the region’s growing immigrant and refugee communities

November 2, 2021

NYC Planning’s Anita Laremont on the City's Principles of Good Urban Design

TPR spoke to Anita Laremont, newly appointed Director of the NYC Department of City Planning and Chair of the City Planning Commission, to elaborate on the city’s priorities for the public realm and the role for good urban design to enhance quality of life within any neighborhood context.

November 2, 2021

CEO Stephanie Wiggins on the State of Play at LA Metro

TPR shares here CEO Stephanie Wiggins' presentation to the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation’s Governing Board on the status of Metro’s recovery.

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