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Each spring, Mayor Mick Cornett hosts the Mayor’s Development Roundtable. This event highlights the public and private sector’s commitment to developing a great community by bringing together experts, local panel members and attendees to discuss topics relevant to Oklahoma City’s growth and development.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
8 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Cox Business Services Convention Center, Great Hall C
PROGRAM
Welcome
Judy Hatfield
Opening Remarks
Mayor Mick Cornett
Kick-off Keynote
Walter Hood, Hood Designs
20/20 Lightning Round 1
This fast-paced segment provides updates on local development "lightning
round" style
- 20 slides/20 seconds per slide.
Preview of Housing Demand & Retail Studies Supporting
planokc
Russell Claus
Will Rogers Airport East Side Development Plan
Mark Kranenburg
I-240 Urban Land Institute Study
Elaine Lyons
Increase in Housing & Hotels in Bricktown and Downtown
Jane Jenkins
Session 1: Building Community Inclusive
Spaces: Sharing Physical, Social, Political, and Economic Resources in an
Urban Landscape
Hear a discussion of placemaking and how the new
MAPS 3 downtown park can interact with its urban surroundings.
Walter Hood, Hood Designs
Break
20/20
Lightning Round 2
Round two of the 20/20 segment focuses on how vision, leadership, risks and
persistence have resulted in the revitalization of four of Oklahoma City's
special
districts.
Adventure District
Devery Youngblood
Western Avenue
Carl Milam
Boathouse District
Mike Knopp
Uptown 23rd Street
Keith Paul
Session 2: Invested Development
How the City of El
Paso restructured to improve development, including code rewrites,
form-based code implementation and professional accreditations through the
Congress for the New Urbanism.
Mathew McElroy, Development Department, City of El Paso
Super Panel Roundtable Discussion/Q&A
Lunch
Mayor's Keynote
Award for Outstanding Development
Midtown District
SPEAKER BIOS
Mayor Mick Cornett
The
world has taken notice of Oklahoma City’s remarkable renaissance and its
popular Mayor. Oklahoma City makes regular appearances on numerous “Best Of”
lists and Mayor Mick Cornett was named Governing magazine’s 2010 “Public
Official of the Year” and finished second in the world in the London-based
City Mayors Foundation’s “2010 World Mayor Award.”
Cornett entered politics in 2001, winning a City Council seat by the largest margin over a sitting incumbent in city history. He was elected Oklahoma City’s 35th mayor on March 2, 2004, by an overwhelming margin and is only the fourth mayor in the City’s history to be elected to three terms. He received a record 88 percent of the vote in his re-election bid and was elected to a third term in 2010.
Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Cornett was a prep all-state athlete and earned a degree in journalism at the University of Oklahoma. In July 2011, he earned an MBA from NYU’s prestigious Stern School of Business.
Cornett’s professional career has centered on media, advertising and marketing. Following a 20-year career as an award-winning broadcaster, he was named the 2010 “Advertising Man of the Year” by the Oklahoma City Ad Club for his work with Ackerman-McQueen, the state’s largest advertising firm. Much of Oklahoma City’s recent recognition can be traced to Cornett’s tireless marketing of the city, through regular national television appearances and national and international speaking engagements.
As Mayor, Cornett led the charge to pass the visionary infrastructure program known as MAPS 3 – a $777-million investment that will dramatically reshape Oklahoma City and enhance the quality of life of its residents. MAPS 3 projects include a 70-acre downtown park, improved sidewalks and hike and bike trails, a modern streetcar system, a new convention center, senior wellness/aquatic centers and other amenities.
He is guiding the completion of one of the nation’s largest public school capital improvement projects – a $700-million program to build or renovate more than 70 schools throughout the city, including a new downtown elementary school serving families in Oklahoma City’s growing urban core. In addition, he is overseeing Project 180, an ambitious and forward-thinking $140-million, three-year redesign of Oklahoma City’s downtown streets and sidewalks, designed to make the city more pedestrian friendly.
His leadership in securing an NBA franchise helped Oklahoma City attain permanent major league status with the arrival of the Oklahoma City Thunder. During his tenure, Oklahoma City’s unemployment rate has been among the nation’s lowest. He famously put Oklahoma City “on a diet” in 2007, challenging citizens to improve their health and lose a collective one-million pounds. The goal was reached in January 2012, as more than 47,000 residents logged their weight loss on the awareness campaign’s website, www.thiscityisgoingonadiet.com.
For more information on Mayor Cornett's current policies, read or watch his 2013 State of the City Address here.
Russell Claus, AICP
Russell
Claus
is the Planning Director for the City of Oklahoma City.
His current planning priorities include the development of a new
comprehensive plan for the city (the first in 35 years), implementation of
neighborhood and commercial district revitalization programs, and continuing
downtown planning and development. Russell is a board member of the
Oklahoma City Urban Land Institute District Council and the Foundation for
OKC Public Schools.
Judy J. Hatfield, CPA, CCIM
Judy
Hatfield is the owner-principal of Equity Commercial Realty, LLC which is a full
service commercial real estate company specializing in brokerage, leasing,
management, development strategic consulting and investment throughout the
state of Oklahoma headquartered in the OKC metro area, Norman, OK.
Judy’s largest redevelopment project was Campus Corner
in Norman, Oklahoma. She purchased a major ownership interest in this
blighted retail area, secured a TIF district, gained cooperative advantage
with other owners, developed a marketing campaign, and brought the area to a
thriving retail area today with 100% occupancies and a waiting list of
tenants and rental rates 5 times what they were 10 years ago. Judy currently
manages several thousand square feet of retail and office in addition to her
own portfolio.
Judy serves with John Richels as Co-Chairs of the 2013 Allied Arts Campaign. She is on the board of the OKC Chamber of Commerce where she co-chaired the TRDC for two years (also with John Richels) to raise over $2.3 million dollars the second year, the largest sum raised in the history of the program at the time of her leadership. She is now Chairman of the Oklahoma Annie Oakley Society Board of Directors for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. She is also heading up a major redevelopment project on the Carnegie Library in downtown OKC which she hopes will kick off in June 2013.
Walter Hood
Walter
Hood is
an Oakland, California based environmental designer, artist and educator. He
is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Landscape
Architecture and Environmental Design Department, which he chaired from 1998
to 2002. His studio practice, Hood Design, has been engaged in environmental
design, urban design, art installations, and research commissions since
1992. Earlier this year, Hood was appointed as the inaugural holder of the
David K. Woo Chair in Environmental Design. Hood served as a Goldman
Sachs Design Fellow for the Smithsonian Institute and as a MIT fellow for
Robert Taylor in 2011 and was the 2009 recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Award for Landscape Design. He has exhibited and lectured
on his professional projects and speculative works internationally.
Jane Jenkins
Jane
Jenkins is the President and CEO of Downtown Oklahoma City, Incorporated.
Jane came to Oklahoma City in 2009 from Boulder, Colorado where she
served as Executive Director of the Downtown Boulder Business Improvement
District. With over 27 years of experience in downtown revitalization and
management, Jane is an internationally recognized speaker and expert on
urban issues. She is a former Chairman for the International Downtown
Association Board of Directors and is also active in the International
Economic Development Council, Urban Land Institute, the American Institute
of Architects and Rotary Club 29 in Oklahoma City.
She has twice been honored by the Oklahoma Journal-Record as one of
“50 Women Making a Difference” in Oklahoma and was recently elected to the
board of HPI in Heritage Hills.
A former high school educator, Jane was named 1982 Teacher of the
Year at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She holds a Master of Public
Administration from the University of North Texas in Denton.
Mike Knopp
A
passion for rowing and paddling and a vision for bringing national and
international sports to the Oklahoma River have been the driving force
behind Mike Knopp’s leadership in developing the Oklahoma City rowing
community, the Chesapeake Boathouse, national and international sporting
events, and ultimately, the master plan development of the Oklahoma River.
Originally a practicing attorney, Mike left his legal
career in 2003 to establish the Oklahoma City
University varsity rowing program and assume the position of executive
director of the Oklahoma City Boathouse Foundation. Bringing corporate,
civic and community leaders together, Mike has led multiple Oklahoma River
initiatives including the development of The Chesapeake Boathouse, Devon
Boathouse and Oklahoma City National High Performance Center, Finishline
Tower, the Oklahoma Regatta, the MAPS 3 River Initiatives Campaign, as well
as hosting numerous national and international Rowing Championships.
Mark Kranenburg
Mark
Kranenburg is the Director of the City of Oklahoma City’s Airports
Department. He returned to
Oklahoma City in 2005 after a four-year absence having been the Assistant
Director of San Bernardino County’s six general aviation airports and the
Director of Riverside Airport in Southern California.
Mr. Kranenburg began his civilian career in aviation as an Airport
Operations Officer at Will Rogers World Airport in 1993.
Later he served as the General Aviation Manager managing the
operations and maintenance of Wiley Post and Clarence E. Page Airport’s from
1994 through 2001.
Mr. Kranenburg holds a degree in Aviation Management
and is an Accredited Member of the American Association of Airport
Executives (AAAE). He has served
on AAAE’s Board of Directors and Policy Review Committee, and is a past
President and Legislative Chairman for the Oklahoma Airport Operators
Association. Mr. Kranenburg also
served as an air traffic controller both in the United States Air Force and
the Federal Aviation Administration.
Elaine Lyons
As a community leader, Elaine has been involved in
numerous community and philanthropic organizations including:
Women of the South, Earlywine YMCA Council, Oklahoma Foundation for
Medical Quality, Capitol Hill Main Street Advisory Board and was one of The
Journal Record’s nominees for the Woman of the Year award in 2005 and 2008.
Ms. Lyons has been a leader in south Oklahoma
City for many years and strives to increase business development along with
community awareness in south Oklahoma City.
She and her family reside within the community she serves.
Mathew McElroy
Mathew McElroy, AICP, CNU-A, is Director of the City Development Department for the
City of El Paso and oversees the Planning, Building Permits and Inspections,
and Economic Development divisions. He also serves on the national board
for the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and has grown membership in the
CNU in El Paso to over 200 from across the public and private sectors while
training those 200 to sit for and pass the CNU Professional Accreditation (CNU-A)
exam. Prior to joining the City of El Paso, he served as the Associate
Director of the Institute for Policy and Economic Development (IPED) at the
University of Texas at El Paso. In his work at IPED, Mathew oversaw research
operations. His work extended from redevelopment studies and housing to
econometric forecasting, input-output based economic impact analysis, and
geographic information systems (GIS). In his final year at UTEP, he co-led
the team that won the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER)
National Award for Excellence in Policy Analysis for a binational industry
cluster study. He is also the 2012 winner of the Groves Award, one of the
highest national honors for leadership in the field of planning awarded by
the CNU and Transect Codes Council for Plan El Paso. Mathew is a University
of Texas at El Paso graduate of the English (BA) (1997), Master in Public
Administration (2000), and Master of Science in Economics (2008) programs.
Carl
Milam is the President and Founder of Western Concepts Restaurant Group,
LLC, which operates Sushi Neko, Musashi's, The Lobby Café and Tasting Room,
Will Roger's Theater and The Coach House Restaurant. With a firm background
in financial planning, Milam knew he was making an investment in Western
Avenue when he opened a new restaurant concept, Sushi Neko in 1997. At
that time that portion of Western Avenue was floundering. The success
of Sushi Neko then brought about the opening of Musashi’s, in 2002. Shortly
thereafter was the addition of The Will Rogers Theatre, The Lobby Café and
the Tasting Room. All of these concepts are housed in the area near
43rd and Western. In 2009 Western Concepts partnered with famed Chef
Kurt Fleischfresser and the Coach House is now part of the Western Concepts
Family of Restaurants.
Currently Milam serves on the board of the Will Rogers Memorial Foundation
as well as the Western Avenue Association. The Western Avenue
Association is dedicated to the growth and sustainability of Western Avenue
as one of Oklahoma City’s flourishing districts.
Keith Paul
Devery Youngblood
