The Transformation of Boston’s Waterfront
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  • October 10, 2018
    9:00 am - 10:00 am
    Event: 2018 ULI Fall Meeting
    Session Type: Concurrent Session
    Session Capacity: N/A


    A few decades ago, Boston’s harbor was dirty and walled-off by an elevated highway. Gradually, a cleanup of the harbor transformed the city’s relationship to the waterfront. Through intentional and coordinated efforts by local and state authorities, private investors, and developers, Boston leveraged private development and public investment to create continuous public access along the waterfront, acres of open space, and cultural institutions and amenities....
Session Speakers
Abbott Katherine
Organization: Boston Harbor Now


KATHERINE FRENCH ABBOTT Work: 15 State St, 11th Floor, Boston MA 02109 Home: 21 Irwing St, Cambridge 02138 kabbott@bostonharbornow.org kabbott207@gmail.com 617-223-8104 617-548-6356 DOB: 5/23/1957 SUMMARY Senior executive with proven expertise in managing and leading start-ups, consolidations, and major organizational change efforts, involving fundrais

Hargens Andrew
Organization: Massachusetts Port Authority
McGuinness Richard
Medvedow Jill
Yaro Bob
Organization: University of Pennsylvania Dept of City & Reg Planning


Bob Yaro has been Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania since 2002. He also co-chairs the New York-New Jersey Storm Surge Working Group. For 25 years he led the Manhattan-based Regional Plan Association and its strategic planning work for the New York metro region until his retirement as RPA’s President in 2014. In the 1970s and ‘80s Bob was Deput
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