Place for Lunch

Note: Please RSVP and a Zoom webinar link will be sent to you in advance of the event.

"Place for Lunch" is a periodic convening of the Georgetown Place Leadership Project, a community participatory research project which explores the emerging practices of "place management" across the National Capital Region. 

 

On Tuesday June 9, the next Place for Lunch dialogue exploring the significance of place management organizations (PMOs) in the National Capital Region. The purpose of these open virtual lunch dialogues is to periodically convene for an hour of insight, discussion, and exchange of ideas which enable a better understanding of how place-based management practices are advancing integrated urban outcomes. These dialogues are recorded and made available for people unable to join us for the live session. Our next dialogue will explore the following question:

 

What strategic role are place management organizations playing during the Covid-19 public health crisis to retain small businesses and active ground-floor retail uses in their districts?

 

Our dialogue will explore the role that non-profit place management organizations are playing to support the retention of commercial retail uses in their urban districts during the reopen and recovery process.  We will use the example of the North Capitol Main Street as a point of departure to explore the interdependencies of small business tenants, landlords and mortgage lenders in preservation of neighborhood identity and value.  What value do place management organizations add?

 

 

Thought leaders will feature:

Aisha Bond, Executive Director, North Capitol Main Street

Tom Nida, Executive Vice President, City First Bank

Adam Weers, Principal, Trammell Crow Company

Moderated by:

Uwe Brandes, Faculty Director, Georgetown Urban & Regional Planning Program

 

Event Details:

Tuesday, June 9, 2020, from Noon to 1 pm

A digital link will be sent to all persons who RSVP.

We hope you can join us. Please note that this is a transferable invitation and we invite you to share this with other interested stakeholders.

 

About our speakers:

 

Aisha Bond is Executive Director of the North Capitol Main Street, a place management organization in Washington, DC where she is charged with the accountability to spearhead complex community and business development strategies. Ms. Bond holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA from Spelman College.

 

Tom Nida is Executive Vice President, Market Executive of City First Bank where he supports overall strategies in community development finance. After an accomplished career as a local banking executive with various regional and national banks, including the DC Regional Executive at John Marshall Bank and the DC Market President for United Bank, Mr. Nida has returned to City First having originally served as City First Bank’s first dedicated commercial lender in 1999. Mr. Nida graduated from the University of Wisconsin Bank Administration Institute.

 

Adam Weers is a Principal at Trammell Crow Company with fifteen years of commercial real estate development and finance experience. Mr. Weers oversees several multi-phased mixed use development projects in Washington, DC and manages the company's New Market Tax Credit platform which received nine NMTC allocations from the CDFI Fund since 2004 totaling over $700 million. Mr. Weers serves on the Trammell Crow Company's Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Steering Committee. He holds an MBA from Harvard University, an MPA from Georgia State University and a BA from Morehouse College.

 

 

For more information on the Place Leadership Project, including recordings from previous dialogues, please visit: www.placeleadership.org