Blueprint 2.0: Reimagining Prosperity Around the World’s Largest Airport - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Recorded On: 10/06/2024

Atlanta is home to the world's busiest airport, surrounded by 13 communities that have experienced limited investment, educational inequality, and loss of character. This session focuses on the Aerotropolis, a multi-jurisdictional initiative to generate economic resilience, equity, and placekeeping through a collaborative effort between the public and private sectors.

Learning objectives:

Showcase how landscape architects can contribute to equitable redevelopment and placemaking through the lens of economic development and urban design.
Examine approaches to regional economic development by linking workforce development, urban design, economics, and mobility/transit.
Learn the importance of ensuring master redevelopment plans adhere to local market realities, land development economics, and politics that shape development around airports.
Showcase how design strategies can improve mobility and placemaking and create real change within historically underserved areas.

Andrew Kohr, ASLA, PLA

Principal

Pond and Company

Andrew is a landscape architect with over 19 years of experience working on projects ranging from small pocket parks to regional economic development plans. His background in historic preservation and landscape architecture provide Andrew with a unique perspective on placemaking and community design which he applies to each of his projects. A past adjunct professor with Georgia State University and the College of Charleston, Andrew is considered a subject matter expert on complete streets, cultural landscapes, and strategic planning/economic development. He is a Principal with Pond and Company, serving as Director of Landscape Architecture.

Brian Dorelus

Senior Project Manager

Aerotropolis Atlanta Alliance

Brian Dorelus serves as the Sr. Project Manager at Aerotropolis Atlanta Alliance – the regional planning and economic development nonprofit for the communities around Hartsfield -Jackson Airport. Before, Brian Dorelus oversaw the recruitment efforts for the innovation hubs across Gwinnett County and equips angel investors, incubators/accelerators, and local partners with the data, resources, and connections to make informed business decisions and have a support system in the community. In addition, Brian served as an economic development coordinator in the Republic of Moldova and urban planning fellow at the McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority.

Andrew Fayn, MPl

Principal

MXD Development Strategists

Andrew brings more than a decade of land use planning, design, and real estate development experience. He has led project teams on award-winning assignments for public and private sector clients across a variety of project types across North America. He has committed himself to improving cities that have complex challenges and uses his expertise in formulating feasible and actionable plans that have the right tools in place to be implemented successfully. His recent work has focused on redevelopment strategies of built form in disadvantaged urban areas of cities that have experienced minimal investment.