It might not have drawn the amount of people the World Cup did, but a large and enthusiastic group turned out for the local Urban Land Institute’s breakfast forum that discussed the cricital need to focus on infrastructure investment. The panelists (above) were Ron Freyermuth, Shawnee Public Works; Les Lampe, Black & Veatch; Ed McMahon, guest speaker, and Michael Lally, Olsson Associates. ULI recently published “Infrastructure 2010 Investment Imperative,” a 90-page report that discusses how infrastructure investment is a promise to future generations – if done well and strategically, it can help guarantee prosperity and rising standards of living for all of us.
Dan Musser with Zimmer and Wayne Feuerborn with HNTB came away from the meeting with lots of good information, including the fact that the panel stressed that young people these days want a walkable city and a town center to visit. Retrofiting communities to create fewer, shorter trips for people is one of the hot topics in infrastruture these days.
Lawrence Andre and Mike Scanlon with the City of Mission listened with interest as the panel discussed how 80 percent of car trips are non-commute trips, and what that means to cities as they look toward the future.
Eric Soriano with Hermes Landscaping, Les Lampe with Black & Veatch and Tom Jacobs with MARC talked after the breakfast meeting. Some in the audience agreed that although KC is largely a car-driven community, there are some good discussions currently under way for regional transit, such as bus rapid transit. Light rail on a large scale, they said, doesn’t make sense for KC right now.
CREW takes a tour of Designer Showhouse
CREW members gathered recently at the Designer Showhouse in Kansas City on Ward Parkway for networking and a tour of the remodeled Georgian mansion. Theresa McGill with KC Business Journal, guest Kathy Hogarty, Marcia Charney with Stinson Morrison Hecker, and Rita Ashley with M&I Bank enjoyed hors d’oeuvres under a tent before heading inside for the tour.
Marti Schach with King Hershey, Stephanie Isaacson with New Horizons, and Jessica Merrigan with Lathrop & Gage were checking out the master bedroom and the room across the hall that was “all closets.”
Stephanie Pilkington , legal counsel for Associated Wholesale Grocers, joined her friend .Janet O’Bannon with Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, and Janet’s daughter, Dana Kalt, at the showhouse. The spiral staircase was a focal point of the entryway, but this group liked the remodeled kitchen and first-floor library the best.
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