Lambda Alpha/REIA Symposium: “Building a Greater Chicago”

Ely Chapter of Lambda Alpha International & REIA Symposium & Dinner
Friday, Nov 16th / Box Lunch 11:30 AM - Program 1:00 PM
DePaul Center, Room 8005, One East Jackson, Chicago
Program $90 / Dinner $60

Building a Greater Chicago:
Planning, Zoning & Architecture

SPECIAL EVENT: Join us for a lively discussion of the planning, zoning and architecture issues facing our cities as they are reborn in the 21st Century. This promises to be an interesting and informative session for all members and guests.

Event Chair: Susanne Cannon, Associate Professor, DePaul University

1:00 PM “Chicago’s Place in the 21st Century”, David R. Moesna, President & CEO, Museum of Science and Industry.

Mr. Mosena is Chairman of the Chicago Commission on Landmarks, serves on the Board of Mayor Daley’s Zoning Reform Commission, is a member of the Executive Council of Chicago Metropolis 2020 and Chair of its Task force on Regional Learning, and is a Director of the Greater Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.

1:30 PM Planning: Does Chicago Need a Master Plan?

Moderator: Joseph P. Schwieterman, PhD, Director of DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development

Dr. Schwieterman has written extensively on land-use issues, is an authority on air transportation, and is the co-author of the recently published Shaping Contemporary Suburbia: Perspectives on Development Control in Metropolitan Chicago.

Panelist: Richard A. Hanson, Principal, Mesa Development, LLC.
Mr. Hanson invests and directs his firm’s development activities in land, residential and commercial development. Representative projects include Glenview Naval Air Station, Fort Sheridan, Orlando Naval Training Center, and Chicago’s Heritage at Millennium Park, a 356 unit condominium.

Panelist: John F. McCarron, Vice President for Strategy and Communication, Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC)
and continuing Chicago Tribune Op-Ed Urban Affairs contributor. After 27 years of award-winning writing and reporting for the Chicago Tribune, Mr. McCarron has brought his urban affairs insights and expertise to MPC’s progressive policy-making and sound regional planning.

Panelist: Theodore J. Novak, Senior partner, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, Chair of the firm’s National Zoning, Land Use and Condemnation Practice
With more than 35 years experience, Mr. Novak has been instrumental in the acquisition, condemnation, rezoning and development of residential, industrial, commercial and office. He represented The Boeing Company in the relocation of the firm’s world corporate headquarters to Chicago.

2:45 PM Zoning: Purposes, Processes and Politics

Moderator: John R. Schmidt, Partner, Mayor Brown & Platt
Mr. Schmidt present serves as Co-Chairman of the Mayor’s Zoning Reform Commission and previously served as Associate Attorney General of the United States. Within the Department of Justice, he oversaw the work of the Civil, Civil Rights, Antitrust, Tax and Environment and Natural Resources Divisions, and was responsible for all aspects of the implementation of the 1994 Crime Bill. Mr. Schmidt served as Chairman of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority from 1989 to 1994.

Panelist: David W. Broadwell , Esq., Assistant City Attorney/Supervisor, Land Use and Revenue Section of the City and County of Denver’s Department of Law’
and the principal author of TABOR: A Guide to the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (1999). Prior to joining the City, he served for 7 years as the staff attorney for the Colorado Municipal League, specializing in land use, criminal justice, governmental tort immunity, home rule and TABOR implementation.

Panelist: Edward M. Burke, Democratic Committeeman and Alderman, 14th Ward, City of Chicago;
Chairman, City Council Committee on Finance; Member, Chicago Plan Commission; Member, City Council Committee on Zoning; Director, Navy Pier Development Authority; Partner, law firm of Klafter and Burke; Co-Author: Inside the Wigwam, Chicago Presidential Conventions, 1860-1996.

Panelist: Charles H. Shaw, Chairman, The Shaw Company
Mr. Shaw has been in the development business four more than 40 years, and was responsible for guiding a wide variety of innovative projects; Lake Point Tower, Homan Square and Prairie Crossing in Chicago, and Museum Tower build above the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is a Trustee and Past Chairman of the Urban Land Institute and is actively involved in Chicago Metropolis 2020 and the Civic Committee of the commercial Club of Chicago.

4:15 PM Architecture: Do Design Guidelines Inhibit Good Design? The Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan Ave

The architecture panel will convene at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, where Symposium participants will be welcomed by CAR’s President Lynn Osmond, for a brief tour of the newly opened Chicago Architecture Center, an interpretive facility designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which includes a scale model of downtown Chicago as well as a searchable database profiling information and images on many of Chicago’s best known skyscrapers.

Moderator: John F. Hartray Jr, FAIA, Principal, Nagel Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Architects Planners Ltd.
Mr. Hartray currently teaches at Illinois Institute of Technology and has served on advisory councils for the Schools of Architecture at Princeton and Cornell Universities. Mr. Hartray has erved on the Boards of both Chicago Chapter and national AIA, and has represented AIA on the Task Force for the National Capital Plan.

Panelist: Philip J. Enquist, AIA, Partner in Charge of Planning, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Mr. Enquist leads the urban design and planning studios of SOM, his work focusing on the rebuilding of inner cities, their commercial centers and neighborhoods, the strengthening of city infrastructure of streets and transit, and preservation of the natural environment. The State Street Renovation, Millennium Park and the Central Area Plan are Chicago projects.

Panelist: Linda Searl, FAIA, Principal, Searl and Associates, PC
Ms. Searl was appointed to The Chicago Plan Commission in 1997, and became Vice Chair in 1999. Prior to becoming Principal of her own firm, she was an Associate Architect at Nagle Hartray and Associates. She ahs designed a broad variety of institutional buildings and has participated on juries for AIA Distinquished Building Awards in a number of other cities. She has served as Chair of the Design Committee of AIA Chicago, is recent Past-President of AIA Chicago and past president of Chicago Women in Architecture.

Panelist: Stanley Tigerman, FAIA, Principal, Tigerman McCurry Architects
Mr. Tigerman’s credits include institutional projects such as The Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and the Powerhouse Energy Museum in Zion, IL. The author of five books, he has lectured, exhibited and designed museum installations here and abroad. In 1990, The Art Institute of Chicago presented an exhibition of his Recent Works. He served as Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is the Co-Founder and Director of ARCHEWORKS, a socially oriented design laboratory and school.

6:30 M Reception, Keynote Speaker and Dinner: “Chicago, The Uniquely American City”, Donald Miller, Author & Historian, The Phoenix Restaurant, 2131 S. Archer Avenue

For those who wish to continue the day’s urban experience, CPA passes will be provided for the Red Line, boarding at State & Jackson, and exiting a few minutes later at Cermak Road, a short walk from The Phoenix.

Donald L. Miller is author of the critically acclaimed City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and The Making of America. This sweeping history of Chicago was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won a Great Lakes Book Award and other prizes. WGBH Boston is currently making the book into a four-hour documentary film series for PBS’ acclaimed series “The American Experience”. Mr. Miller is a recipient of the prestigious Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting and cable for his past work’ participates regularly as a teaching fellow in seminars hosted by the Aspen Institute; and wrote the Forward to Elmer W. Johnson’s Chicago Metropolis 2020. His most recent book, The Story of World War II has just been published.