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By Smedes York, Triangle Tomorrow Vice Chairman
A few years ago, I chaired a project for the Greater Triangle Regional Council (now Triangle Tomorrow) called Development Choices. That project looked at three distinct growth alternatives:
- The then current development pattern.
- Combination of compact neighborhoods & greenspace.
- Activity centers and countryside (growth boundaries).
Over 700 project participants chose #2 as the best way to grow. By having appropriate but significant density alternatives, we can have walkable communities, more open space and a better opportunity for mass transit.
Especially gratifying is the resurgence of our downtowns – “urban walkable communities”. More compact, dense communities, properly designed, are becoming more acceptable.
One of the great developers in the 1960’s was William Zeckendorf. I had the privilege of hearing him speak in 1995 at a Urban Land Intitute Conference in Los Angeles. He talked about “developing a mountain”. He said that “instead of spreading houses out all over the mountain, why not cluster the houses and let everyone enjoy the mountain?” This approach applies to developing a community.
With a population expected to double in 25 years, we need to do the following:
- Enhance our city centers.
- Approve infill density locations.
- Support mixed use.
- Provide open space.
- Promote mass transit.
We will continue to have suburban neighborhoods spreading out, but we need to have the choice of more infill and compact developments. This approach of compact infill development is generally agreeable to planners and elected officials. However, the actual implementation is very difficult due mainly to neighborhood opposition.
Triangle Tomorrow, working with the Urban Land Institute District Council, will embark upon a process called “Reality Check”. A cross section of leaders in our regional community will “build” the region of the future. (“Legos” representing population and jobs will be physically placed on a map of the region). Population and job growth will be a given. This exercise will move us forward using the principles of the Development Choices project as a platform.
For more information on this project and how you can become involved, please contact Pam Wall at 281-2743 or pwall@triangletomorrow.org.
Smedes York
Vice Chair
Triangle Tomorrow
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The Board of Directors recently elected Patricia Healy to serve a three year term. Ms. Healy is Co-Founder of Hyde Street Holdings, LLC. Hyde Street Holdings, LLC. is a Gold Member of Triangle Tomorrow. Prior to Hyde Street Holdings, LLC., Ms. Healy was Co-Founder of the Hanford/Healy Companies (1988).
The Hanford/Healy Companies was a hands-on real estate consulting, asset management and investment firm combining real estate analytics with loan workouts and originations, repackaging and sales (often through the public markets). General Motor’s subsidiary GMAC Commercial Mortgage purchased the Hanford/Healy Companies in September of 1996. Prior, Ms. Healy has also held various senior management positions with real estate and financial firms.
Ms. Healy is on the Advisory Board, Advisor to the Management Committee and GP of Hawkeye Partners, LP an institutional real estate fund GP, created to develop emerging institutional real estate managers (First Fund 750 million).
Patricia is CFO of ParkingCarma, a parking guidance service matching motorists with available parking spaces facilitating the ability to reserve a space with either a mobile phone or via the internet.
Ms. Healy has served on the advisory board of Precept Corporation; the Board of Friends of San Francisco Recreation and Park; Larkin Street Youth Center and California Community Development Corporation. In addition, Ms. Healy and her husband have been actively involved in the development of various educational and mentoring programs for incarcerated and “at risk” youths in the Napa Valley.
Ms. Healy has recently been elected incoming chair of ArtSpace in Raleigh; chaired the 150th Anniversary Celebration of Old St. Mary’s, the oldest cathedral in California, and Chaired the 25th Anniversary celebration of USCF’s Rosalind Russell Center for Arthritis Research.
Membership in professional associations include: Lambda Alpha; the American Society of Real Estate Councilors (CRE) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), in which she is a Trustee and Governor. Within ULI Ms.Healy has chaired two different product councils; the Inclusivity Initiative; the Annual Fund and serves on the Executive Committee of her District Council.
Ms. Healy has undergraduate (BA) from Tulane University and graduate degrees from Southern Methodist University (MBA) and The American Graduate School of International Management (MIM).
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As Smedes York indicated in his opening column, Triangle Tomorrow and the Triangle District Council of ULI are partnering to bring ULI’s Reality Check on Growth project to the Triangle Region. This is an exciting opportunity for our region and our citizens to work proactively on the projected growth in 2030.
“Reality Check” is a visioning exercise that allows 300 regional leaders working in diverse groups of 8-10 to allocate expected growth using chips or legos on large scale regional maps. It is an exercise that asks the questions -- How should we grow? Where should we grow?
The solutions developed by each group can be compared against current trends and plans and/or be aggregated with the other group’s growth scenarios into an average solution for analysis purposes. The exercise is designed to provide a region-wide awareness of the level of growth that is expected; recognize the legitimate points of view of different stakeholders; and lay the foundation for the development of a concrete list of next steps to assure quality growth to meet the region's needs in the future.
While each visioning exercise and process is different, the overall education and awareness-raising goals of Reality Check have the power to create a regional dialogue that results in consensus on where and how the region will grow over the next 25 or 30 years. It is not “if” we will grow, because we will. It is “how” we will grow, because we will.
Recently Tricia Healy, a ULI Trustee and Triangle Tomorrow board member, worked with ULI to have Marta Goldsmith, Senior Vice President of Community Outreach, meet with ULI and Triangle Tomorrow leadership to explore this opportunity.
Marta brought the newly created Reality Check guidebook, now available online, showed a DVD from Washington, DC’s recent event, and answered our questions.
Who has completed Reality Check? Los Angeles, Washington, DC, North Texas and Maryland.
Who will complete a Reality Check in 2007? Seattle, Tampa and Arizona.
The Research Triangle Region is scheduled to complete a Reality Check in fall 2008.
For more information, see www.uli.org.
We welcome your comments, input and participation on this project. Please call Pam Wall at 281-2743 or email pwall@triangletomorrow.org for more information.
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Taking direction from the Regional Advisory Council, Triangle Tomorrow will begin work with the Triangle Leadership Academy on education and outreach about their mission and accomplishments to the business community.
The project is being led by:
- Dr. Ted Morris, Director, Economic Development Partnership of NCSU’s Office of Extension and Engagement
- Jim Brown, Managing Director, Public & Institutional Banking for RBC Centura, and
- Mary-Ann Baldwin, Director of Marketing for Stewart Engineering.
As we began to meet with business leaders around the region we realized that few people knew of the Academy or the role they play in training K-12 education leadership. In fact, most confused the Academy with Leadership Triangle, an organization established to educate and promote regionalism across the Triangle.
TLA mirrors the private sector and its focus on building learning organizations. It is commited to developing a pipeline of new and current leaders who improve student achievement through professional learning communities and embracing the role of public education in creating citizens who live in the global village of the 21st century.
They train K-12 public school teacher leaders, assistant principals, principals, and senior leaders using the model, Developing the 7 Critical Functions of Leadership: Succession Planning for Leaders. Their course offerings align with the leadership needs of each role within the K-12 school system and provide senior leaders with a succession-planning tool.
Dr. Joe Peele serves as the Executive Director since the organization originated in 2005. Dr. Peele has a doctorate in Education Leadership from UNC-Chapel Hill. The TLA’s Director is Dr. C. Steven Bingham, Ed.D., Educational Leadership from UNC-Greensboro and Ph.D, Education Research at Florida State University, and Dr. Mary-Jo Hall serves as the Program Consultant. Dr. Hall holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from George Mason University and MED in Human Development from the University of Maryland. For more information about the staff and the Academy please visit www.triangleleadershipacademy.org
If you would like to hear more about the project, go to researchtriangle.org and click on the radio show archives. Charles Hayes and Dr. Ted Morris discuss the project and the opportunity Triangle Tomorrow has taken to impact education in the region.
If you are interested in working on this project, or would like more information, please contact Pam Wall at 281-2743 or pwall@triangletomorrow.org
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There is great news for the Triangle Region – our air has improved substantially. Based on Triangle ozone modeling results, the Triangle will soon be redesignated to an ozone maintenance area. Preliminary PM2.5 monitoring data suggests that the Triangle will remain attainment for the fine particulate standards in the near future. EPA is constantly re-evaluating its criteria pollutant standards so the future concern for our air quality depends on continuing emission reductions through mandatory and voluntary measures. The Triangle Air Awareness program continues to promote education about air quality throughout the region.
The Triangle Air Awareness Program is managed by Triangle Tomorrow in a joint partnership with the North Carolina Division of Air Quality. The TAAP provides education and outreach through a variety of programs and opportunities all year, especially during air quality season.
The coordinator, Anne Galamb, works out of the NCDAQ headquarters and manages over 350 Coalition Members who have agreed to serve as air quality educators for their companies. A network of air quality organizations meets regularly to share information and work together on programs to better utilize resources and staff.
An example of a recent partnership opportunity is the SmartCommute Challenge. The TAAP partnered with Triangle Transit Authority and SmartCommute@RTP for the 2006 challenge and Triangle Tomorrow had management and fiduciary responsibilities for the project.
We received national attention when the Challenge won the First Place and the Grand Prize from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and set a new record for participation.
This past September over 12,700 people pledged to take the Challenge and it is estimated that effort eliminated 1.4 million commuter miles and saved 58,000 gallons of gas. The next Challenge is planned for May of 2008.
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Triangle Tomorrow has received a $40,000 grant from NCDAQ for air quality programming through the Triangle Air Awareness Program.
The mascot program which features Clair the Clean Air Explorer and her sidekick C.A.M. the Clean Air Maniac was recently featured at the National EPA Conference in Orlando, Florida, which was attended by the TAAP coordinator.
The mascots have also been featured at the Annual Environmental Educators Conference in Greensboro and the National Sciences Teachers Conference in Fayetteville. This project is generously underwritten by GlaxoSmithKline.
GlaxoSmithKline is sponsoring the first Triangle Air Awareness Night at the Durham Bulls on Sunday, April 29th. Our mascots will throw out the first pitch, will be shooting t-shirts up into the stands and appear on the message boards throughout the game. This provides an excellent opportunity to promote the TAAP and our mascot project with “Triangle Air Awareness” night on thousands of pocket schedules, posters and other Durham Bulls promotional pieces. Thanks again to Mary Linda Andrews, Elaine Rothbauer and GSK for making this event possible.
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Capstrat has been named a finalist in the 2007 PRWeek Awards' Small PR Agency of the Year competition. The agency of the year recognition is given annually to the best corporate, non-profit and agency teams, as well as the campaigns they produce. A member of Triangle Tomorrow since 2003, Capstrat created the logo and identity package for the organization.
Capstrat was named a finalist because of its continuous financial growth, employee expansion, client satisfaction and company culture.
"It's exciting to be recognized for the work we love to do," said Ken Eudy, CEO of Capstrat. "Our mission is to do work that matters and to stay a step ahead for our clients. We are grateful to our clients who have given us the opportunity to experience one of the best years ever."
PRWeek received nearly 700 entries in 32 categories for work done during 2006. Winners will be announced at a gala ceremony to be held at Tavern on the Green in New York on March 8. The small PR agency category includes agencies with fee income under $10 million.
"The PRWeek Awards honors the highest degree of creativity and professionalism in public relations," says PRWeek editor-in-chief Julia Hood. "The finalists' successes demonstrate why the PR industry is thriving, and growing faster than the overall market for advertising and marketing."
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We would like to express appreciation for our new member on their investment in Triangle Tomorrow:
- Kennedy & Covington, LLC: Silver Member
We would also like to thank the following members for renewing their investment in Triangle Tomorrow:
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• Greenfire Development
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• FM Builders Marketing Group
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• Triangle Transit Authority |
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