Jury

Joseph Brown, FASLA (Jury Chair)
Landscape architect
President and CEO, EDAW, San Francisco

As a principal of EDAW, Joe Brown has directed numerous projects throughout the United States and abroad. EDAW was founded in 1939, and is now a 1,100-person planning and design firm with 25 offices worldwide. He is an experienced planner and landscape architect with particular strengths in new community planning, urban planning and redevelopment, community revitalization, historic and cultural design, and the issues confronting areas of rapid growth and development. Brown has been an aggressive voice in his profession's move toward realizing broader collaboration among disciplines, greater professional visibility and outreach, and being involved early on in the strategic resolution of diverse land- and community-based challenges. He is committed to the fusion of sustainable resource management with enduring and distinguished physical design. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a founding member of the CEO Roundtable, a forum of leaders within the profession, brought together to offer national and international depth to the leadership of the ASLA. He is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and a member of the American Planning Association. Brown served on the ULI Awards for Excellence jury for three years as well as contributed to several ULI publications. This is his third year as a juror for the urban design competition and his first as jury chair. He holds a B.Arch. from Catholic University and an M.L.A. from Harvard University.

Denise Gammon
Sr. Vice President – Development
Forest City Stapleton, Denver

Denise Gammon is the Senior Vice President of Development for Forest City Stapleton, Inc., the development company that is transforming the former Stapleton International Airport into a new community of 12,000 homes, 35,000 jobs and more than 1,100 acres of parks and open space. She oversees all aspects related to the planning and development of the residential component at Stapleton.

Ms. Gammon has over 17 years of real estate development experience with large-scale, master-planned communities. Ms. Gammon has participated in the development of nine separate communities ranging in size from 100 acres to over 9,000 acres, and totaling over 18,000 dwelling units. During her career, she has been responsible for entitlements, planning and design, land sales, strategic market planning, community management and infrastructure financing.

Ms. Gammon holds a B.S. degree in Business/Finance from the University of Colorado.

Con Howe
Director of Planning
City of Los Angeles

Con Howe is the Director of Planning for the City of Los Angeles. He has served in this role since 1992. Since that time, the Department of City Planning has undertaken several initiatives: revision of its General Plan; updating the city’s 35 community plans; streamlining the development permitting process; creating new zoning ordinances to encourage mixed-use projects and affordable housing; establishing an Internet Web site and whereby planning documents and all the city’s zoning maps are available at www.lacity.org/PLN.

Previously he was Director of the Lower Manhattan Project, a public/private partnership, to plan and promote improvements in Lower Manhattan. From 1987 to 1991, Howe served as Executive Director of the New York City Planning Department where he directed a staff of 400 located in a central office and five borough offices. Prior to that, he was Director of the agency’s Manhattan Office.
Before going to New York City, he served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Land Bank, a State redevelopment agency, and served in the Governor’s Office.

Howe received a masters degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Planning in 1975 and an undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1972.

Charles R. Kendrick, Jr.
Managing Director
Clarion Ventures, LLC, Boston, Massachusetts

Charles Kendrick has spent over 30 years as a developer, investment banker, and strategic adviser specializing in urban redevelopment projects and portfolios. During the 1990s, he started Clarion Ventures, LLC, to attract capital to urban communities. His institutional clients have included the Bank of America, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the Fannie Mae Foundation, and the Danforth Foundation, as well as public entities such as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the St. Louis Development Corporation. He raises capital for cities by helping to start and expand new companies specializing in urban retail projects, CRA financial instruments, and inner-city business development.

During the 1980s, with two other partners in the First Winthrop Corporation, Kendrick created an asset management subsidiary to manage a portfolio of over 400 properties worth $6 billion and to provide due diligence for acquisitions. From 1979 to 1983, Kendrick worked in the Office of Urban Development Action Grants (UDAG) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He managed a team that invested in more than 100 projects involving $1 billion in private and public funds. In 1983, he became the deputy director of UDAG. In the 1970s, Kendrick was a development director for the Rouse Company, initially focused on multifamily project development and later on the development of downtown mixed-use projects and regional malls.

As a trustee of ULI, Kendrick is a ULI Vice Chair overseeing the District Council Chairs Advisory Group and is a member of the Public/Private Partnership Council. Kendrick was the founding chair of the ULI Inner City Council and the ULI Affordable Housing Council. He is a member of the national board of directors of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and the board of directors of Access Capital Strategies, LLC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from Princeton University and an MBA in finance from George Washington University.

A. Eugene Kohn
Architect
President, Kohn Pedersen Fox, New York

Gene Kohn has been the president of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) since he co-founded the firm in 1976. KPF is a 400-person practice that provides full architecture, master planning, space planning, programming, building analysis and interior design services. Kohn is a registered architect in 26 states and the United Kingdom and Japan. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and in 1998 was president of the AIA New York City Chapter. Kohn has chaired and served on a number of design award juries, has published widely, and has served as a visiting critic and lecturer at numerous colleges and universities as well as conducting courses at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for the past ten years. Kohn holds Bachelors and Masters of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Kohn serves on many boards of both civic and professional organizations and serves as a trustee of ULI.

Todd W. Mansfield
Developer
CEO, Crosland Inc., Charlotte

Todd W. Mansfield is Chief Executive Officer of Crosland, Inc., a 67-year-old diversified regional investment and development firm headquartered in Charlotte and active throughout the Southeast in retail, multi-family, commercial, residential and land development.

Before joining Crosland, Mansfield was Managing Director of Security Capital Group in London where he was responsible for start up and operations of a private equity investment fund with a $1.5 billion equity capitalization. The fund acquired seven real estate operating companies in the parking, self-storage, office, and residential sectors in Europe and Australia.

From 1986 to 1997 Mansfield was with The Walt Disney Company where he was Executive Vice President/General Manager of the Disney Development Company with operating responsibility for Disney's real estate activities worldwide. Mansfield was also President of Disney's Celebration Company, where he led the team that planned and initiated development of the 5000-acre Town of Celebration. At Disney he supervised the development over $3 billion in resort, commercial and residential development, and the management of several business units.

Mansfield is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, is a Trustee of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, and serves as a member of the board of the Carolinas HealthCare System and the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. He is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute. In addition, he serves as Chair of the Business Advisory Council for the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and is Vice Chairman of the School’s Real Estate Advisory Board.

Mansfield received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University.

Patrick L. Phillips
Economist
President, Economics Research Associates, Washington, DC

Patrick Phillips coordinates all aspects of ERA’s organization, strategy, business development, and service delivery. After serving as managing director of ERA’s Washington D.C. regional office since 1993, he was named President of the firm in January 2000.

Phillips has 20 years of experience in the economic analysis of real estate and land use issues. His consulting practice focuses on economic and feasibility analysis, strategic planning, and transaction-related services for real estate investors and developers, public agencies, financial institutions, universities, and non-profit organizations. His work has involved all major categories of urban land use, for such clients as the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the National Academy of Sciences, Hines, Samsung, TIAA, Alcoa, the University of Cincinnati, Forest City, Coca-Cola, MassPort, Hines, and numerous public agencies and non-profit organizations.

A recent focus is the market, economic, and financial aspects of a new generation of downtown, visitor-oriented projects that include housing, retail, sports, entertainment, and other uses. Notable recent projects include Peabody Place in Memphis, The Banks in Cincinnati, Atlantic Station and Coca-Cola Park in Atlanta, and the Southeast Federal Center in Washington DC. He assisted J.C. Nichols Co./Highwoods in the successful effort to structure a public-private financing approach for the expansion and repositioning of Country Club Plaza, one of the nation’s most successful and influential pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use districts

Phillips has advised numerous public-sector clients on issues related to public-private partnerships for economic development. This practice has concentrated on business development and retention and the revitalization of historic buildings, downtown areas, waterfronts, and neighborhood commercial districts. He is an expert in creative financing strategies and has analyzed tax-increment financing approaches in New York City, Houston, Washington DC, and Atlanta.

Phillips is a frequent speaker on urban development issues, and is the author or co-author of eight books and numerous articles. He is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, and active on ULI’s Mixed-Use Council. He has also taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and has served as adjunct professor at the Berman Real Estate Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he now serves on the Advisory Board. His academic training includes a graduate degree in public management and finance from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Before joining ERA, he was a senior manager with the real estate consulting group of Ernst & Young.

Marilyn Taylor, FAIA
Partner
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, New York City

Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, is an architect and urban designer whose projects focus on various aspects in the public realm. She joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in 1971 and was elected Partner in 1987. Her first several years in the firm were spent in the Washington, DC, office where she participated in a number of urban design and planning projects. From 1978 to 1985 Taylor served as SOM’s director of design for the Stations Program of the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project, a $25 million federally-funded investment in intercity rail stations between Washington, DC and Boston. In addition to providing investments to this system, the project placed historic landmark stations on the National Register and served as a catalyst for state, local, and private investments in station areas. The project has received numerous design, planning, and construction awards. In 1985 Taylor moved to New York to lead an expanded Urban Design and Planning practice within SOM. In 1999, Taylor again rose to national prominence for her key role in the Penn Station Redevelopment Project, which will restore New York's rail entryway to a portal of grandeur missing since the 1963 demolition of the original Penn Station. Penn Station will be created anew through the use of the Farley Post Office Building, one block West of the current underground Penn Station location beneath Madison Square Garden. Taylor is very active in civic activities in New York. She serves on the boards of the New York Building Congress, the Institute for Urban Design, the New York Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), and on the Fellows Advisory Committee of the New York City Partnership. She is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute. She is the immediate Past President of the New York Chapter of the American Institute Of Architects, its oldest and largest chapter; during her tenure, she initiated the George S. Lewis Public Policy discussions and re-energized the chapter's involvement in civic issues. She also chaired the AIA's national Regional and Urban Design Committee. In 1995 she was selected as a David Rockefeller Fellow of the New York City Partnership, spending a year studying the city's public policy issues and strategies. In addition to winning numerous urban design awards, Taylor has twice been named to Crain's list of Most Influential Women in New York. In 1998, she was honored as New York CREW's Woman of the Year. Taylor was educated at Radcliffe College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley.