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SYMPOSIUM: ML924
CREATING PLACES OF OPPORTUNITY:
INVESTING IN NEIGHBORHOODS
WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 10, 2016
DETROIT, MI
Explore innovative strategies for restoring competitiveness
to distressed areas, catalyzing investment in
neighborhoods, and creating vibrant communities.
Made possible, in part, by
Working Together for Strong Communities
WHAT LESSONS DOES DETROIT OFFER
FOR OTHER REVITALIZING COMMUNITIES?
 The dynamic and interactive agenda will highlight innovative ways that
communities are bolstering entrepreneurial businesses, job-creating
industries, physical place-making projects and local housing markets.
W
hile the national economic outlook continues to
improve, many communities across the country
are still working to spark recovery and chart a
course toward sustainable and equitable growth. Whether
Photo Credit: A Healthier Michigan
This day of learning and idea
generation is designed to bring
together:
confronting long-term disinvestment, or contending with
rapid market changes, regions, cities and neighborhoods are
pioneering new ways to enhance quality of life and catalyze
positive change. This includes strategies to build household
and community wealth, support entrepreneurism, create
well-paying jobs, and develop vibrant physical spaces. These
advances are increasingly needed in today’s interconnected
and competitive marketplace—communities must continually
innovate in order to be inclusive places of opportunity.
What does it mean for a community to be an inclusive place of
opportunity? In the simplest terms, it’s a place where someone
• Current and future leaders of community development organizations
would choose to live, work or visit. It’s safe, attractive and
• Planners, economic development
staff and other municipal personnel
diversity of people who know and look out for one another.
• Program officers and senior leaders
from foundations
• Nonprofits from across sectors
• Affordable housing developers
…In short, anyone who works to
ensure that the rising tide of
economic opportunity lifts all boats.
desirable; has strong institutions and assets; and is home to a
Drawing on a revitalizing Detroit as a case study, thinkers,
and practitioners will explore how strategic investments
in places—and the people who live there—can lead
to increased competiveness, greater prosperity, and
inclusive growth. The dynamic and interactive agenda will
highlight innovative ways that communities are bolstering
entrepreneurial businesses, job-creating industries, physical
place-making projects and local housing markets.
TO STAY UPDATED ON THE AGENDA, AND TO REGISTER,
VISIT WWW.NEIGHBORWORKS.ORG/TRAINING.
MOBILE TOURS
Mobile tours will feature
promising community
development efforts
underway in Detroit.
Commercial revitalization via social
enterprises – Boston Edison/
Midtown (presented by [CDC]
Central Detroit Christian)
Entrepreneurship and placemaking – Grandmont Rosedale
(presented by Grandmont Rosedale
Development Corp.)
Long-term investment to rebuild
neighborhood markets – Hubbard
Communities (presented by
Southwest Solutions)
Join us for this day of learning. Together, we’ll examine key questions
facing communities that are working to create vibrant places and
connect residents with opportunity:
• What types of investments are most impactful in
catalyzing revitalization?
• How can community stakeholders forecast trends and
identify future growth engines?
• How can places create sustainable and inclusive growth
amidst rapid change?
• How can communities ensure that new opportunities
benefit existing residents?
• How can residents become leaders of change in their
own communities?
• What is the role of the private sector and new technology
in creating places of opportunity?
• How can collaboration lead to greater competitiveness?
 additional tours will be added closer to the event.
Visit neighborworks.org/DetroitSymposiumAgenda for updates.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
SPECIAL SYMPOSIA SERIES
THROUGHOUT 2016
The Detroit event will be the third in
a series of four daylong symposia,
throughout 2016 focused on the
theme of creating economic opportunity. Each will be held on the
Wednesday of the NeighborWorks
Training Institutes. We will bring
together a cross-section of participants, ranging from community
development practitioners to
researchers to policy makers and
resident leaders.
UPCOMING
DECEMBER 14 IN WASHINGTON, DC:
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION.
For updated information visit
NeighborWorks.org/
EconomicOpportunity
Honorable Mike Duggan, Mayor of the City of Detroit
Mike Duggan was elected largely on his track
record of leading successful large-scale financial
and operational turnarounds, Detroiters responded
strongly to his deep love for the city, which can
be seen in his work over the years. During his
career he has taken on challenges and untangled
problems that directly impact the quality of life of
Detroiters, including access to health care, public transportation,
crime, blight, expanding recreational opportunities in the city, job
creation and more.
James Fallows, The Atlantic
Today’s dominant political refrain is that America
is in a state of decline. But to James Fallows,
nothing could be further from the truth. Over the
course of a three-year, 54,000-mile journey across
the country for The Atlantic, he discovered many
surprising points of reinvention, in every region
of the country—and enough to refresh the bleak
national conversation to reflect a positive truth. In this keynote,
Fallows will report on the wide range of civic projects underway that
are rebuilding America—a cross-section of generations, races, and
political affiliations working far from the usual metropolitan hubs.
HOW CAN STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS IN PLACE DRIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY?
Build your weeklong NTI
experience around symposiumrelated topics with the
following course offerings:
8:30 A.M.
9:00 A.M. MORNING KEYNOTE: CREATING OPPORTUNITY IN DETROIT
• Building Community and
Promoting Equity through
Revitalization [NR116]
• Developing High-Impact
Neighborhood Revitalization
Strategies [NR115]
Leaders working across sectors to create a more competitive and
inclusive Detroit will offer their perspectives on the most impactful ways
to create places of opportunity. Representatives from local government,
philanthropy, anchor institutions and the private sector will each make a
case for the strategies that offer the greatest return on investment.
10:30 A.M. BREAK
10:45 A.M. WHAT’S WORKING ON THE GROUND?
Following case study presentations from three diverse neighborhoods
in Detroit, Hamilton, Ohio and Charlotte, North Carolina, symposium
participants will engage in an interactive dialogue to identify what’s
working in communities across the country to restore competitiveness,
catalyze investment and create prosperity.
• The Main Street Approach
to Revitalization [ED151]
• Understanding the Politics
of Policy [CB310]
– SUCCESSES AND LESSONS LEARNED
Honorable Mike Duggan, Mayor of the City of Detroit
Mayor Duggan will welcome us to Detroit and reflect on recent
accomplishments as well as lessons that the city has learned in
charting a course toward sustainable and equitable growth.
9:30 A.M. PANEL: KEYS TO CREATING PLACES OF OPPORTUNITY
• Influencing and Affecting
Decisions in Your Community
[CB150]
• Strategies to Meaningfully
Engage Stakeholders in
Revitalization Planning [NR102]
ELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
W
Paul Weech, CEO, NeighborWorks America
12:00 P.M. LUNCH AND KEYNOTE : IT’S HAPPENING HERE – AMERICAN RENEWAL, INGENUITY, AND INNOVATION
Remarks: Tom Chabolla, Acting EVP and COO, NeighborWorks America
Keynote: James Fallows, The Atlantic
1:45 P.M.
To learn more and
get updates about this
event or to register, visit
NEIGHBORWORKS.ORG/
DETROIT2016-SYMPOSIUM
DEEP DIVE: CREATING PROSPERITY AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH
As an alternative to the tours, join colleagues from across the country
to explore community and economic development strategies that drive
inclusive growth. This hands-on workshop will surface emerging models
for harnessing market trends to revitalize communities.
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MOBILE TOURS
A series of mobile tours will provide the opportunity to visit promising
community development efforts underway in Detroit. The tours will visit
neighborhoods including Midtown, Central Woodward, Southwest and
Grandmont-Rosedale and highlight initiatives aimed at stabilizing housing
markets, revitalizing commercial corridors, promoting entrepreneurship,
and rejuvenating public spaces through arts and creative placemaking.
• Boston Edison/Midtown (presented by [CDC] Central Detroit Christian)
• Grandmont Rosedale (presented by Grandmont Rosedale
Development Corp.)
• Hubbard Communities (presented by Southwest Solutions)
4:00 P.M.
FORMAL PROGRAM ENDS
5:30 P.M.
NETWORKING RECEPTION
HOW CAN RESIDENTS BECOME DRIVERS OF CHANGE IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES?
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Detroit, MI 48243
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