Metro Councilor Bob Stacey and Metro's RISE team are sponsoring an upcoming Urban Land Institute event put on by the Thriving Cities Alliance.
This event will include presentations from Joseph Minicozzi and Gerard Mildner followed by a panel discussion featuring Metro Councilor Carlotta Collette, Hillsboro planning director Colin Cooper and Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce president Deanna Palm. The moderator will be Nolan Lienhart, director of Planning & Urban Design, ZGF Architects. A happy hour follows the event.
Minicozzi is the principal of Urban3, an analytics company based in Asheville, N.C. Before creating U3, he served as the executive director for the Asheville Downtown Association. Minicozzi has spent the last several years studying the effects of tax systems across the United States that create incentives for suburban sprawl, as opposed to encouraging urban infill projects. Mildner is the Academic Director at Portland State University’s Center for Real Estate where he teaches a variety of topics including urban economics, housing economics, public finance, and cost-benefit analysis.