Urban Retail: Essential Planning, Design, and Management Practices

This program will demonstrate how modern principles of retail development can be combined with the best practices of New Urbanism, Smart Growth, and architectural design to create successful mixed-use urban commercial centers. It is ideal for developers, planners, investors, retailers, architects, and public officials. The program covers many topics, among them the required market demographics for various retailers, shopping center typologies, consumer psychographics, as well as the nuts and bolts of how to program, plan, and design competitive retail in historic downtowns, underperforming shopping centers, and new ground-up, mixed-use town centers and lifestyle centers.

Instructors: Robert J. Gibbs, Gibbs Planning Group, Birmingham MI; Terry Shook, Shook Kelley, Charlotte NC. Guest speakers: Yaromir Steiner, Steiner + Associates, Columbus OH; Stefanos Polyzoides, Moule & Polyzoides Architects, Pasadena CA; Howard Kaufman, Leyland Alliance, Tuxedo, NY.

21 CEUs

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