UNC Charlotte Community Conversation to Discuss Infrastructure with National and Regional Experts
The UNC Charlotte “Community Conversations: Changing Times…Changing Minds” speaker series continues Wednesday, May 20, at 6:00 PM at the Levine Museum of the New South. [Directions]
The event is free, and the public is encouraged to attend and participate.
The topic of conversation will be “Providing and Paying for Infrastructure: The Impact of Growth on Communities.” Panelists will explore the region’s most pressing infrastructure needs and discuss how to handle both existing demand and future growth.
Steven Ott (pictured), theJohn Crosland Sr. Distinguished Professor of Real Estate and Director of the Center for Real Estate in the Belk College of Business, will moderate the discussion. Ott is an Academic Fellow of the Urban Land Institute, one of an elite group of academics who provide intellectual leadership for the organization and served as interim dean of the Belk College in 2007-2008.
Local experts will participate in the conversation. Panelists include Todd Mansfield, chairman and CEO of Crosland, LLC; Ned Curran, president and CEO, The Bissell Companies; and Danny Pleasant, director, Charlotte Department of Transportation.
Mansfield currently serves as Chairman of the National Urban Land Institute and on the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Curran serves as the committee chair for the Committee of 21: Roads to Solutions Committee and is a taskforce member of both the Charlotte Chamber and Mecklenburg County Smart Growth Committees. Pleasant was recently appointed by North Carolina Speaker of the House Joe Hackney to the Legislative Study Commission on Urban Growth and Infrastructure issues and is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
The University hosts a monthly conversation with the community at the Museum every third Wednesday of each month through February 2010. UNC Charlotte is the education sponsor of the current museum exhibit, “Changing Places: From Black and White to Technicolor,” which opened in February.
For more information and to register, visit video.uncc.