The ULI Panel Membership
Chair
The Honorable William H. Hudnut, III
Senior Fellow Emeritus, ULI – the Urban Land Institute
Principal, Bill Hudnut Consultants LLC
Chevy Chase, MD
Former four-term Mayor of Indianapolis and Congressman, author, public speaker, TV commentator, think tank fellow, elected official, and clergyman, Bill Hudnut is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at The Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC, a lecturer at Georgetown University, and a principal in his own consulting firm, Bill Hudnut Consultants, LLC.
Hudnut is probably best known for his sixteen-year tenure as Mayor of Indianapolis, 1976-1991, during which time he used sports to leverage economic growth, and maintained the city’s Aaa bond rating . His stated goal was to build a “cooperative, compassionate and competitive” city. He established “a national reputation for revitalizing his Midwestern city,” (The Washington Post) and came to be regarded as “an entrepreneurial leader willing to take prudent risks” (The Toledo Blade). He spearheaded the formation of a public-private sector partnership that led to Indianapolis’ emergence during the 1980s as a major American city. A past president of the National League of Cities and the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns, Hudnut helped Indianapolis record spectacular growth during his sixteen years in office and sustain its Aaa bond rating throughout his tenure.
Hudnut sponsored seventeen bills that became public law as a Congressman. He has recently stepped down as Mayor of Chevy Chase, MD and as a member of the Board of the National League of Cities. He was a member of the Millennial Housing Commission appointed by Congress during 2001-2002. Prior to his entry into public life, as a clergyman he served churches in Buffalo, NY, Annapolis, MD, and Indianapolis, IN. After leaving the Mayor’s office, Hudnut held posts at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis, and the Civic Federation in Chicago, before assuming his position with ULI in 1996.
A much sought-after speaker, “spirited…with high energy eloquence,” (The Toledo Blade) Hudnut “gives life to the word charismatic” (The Cincinnati Enquirer). He is the author of Minister Mayor (1987), a book reflecting on his experience in politics and religion; The Hudnut Years in Indianapolis, 1976-1991 (1995), a case study in urban management and leadership; Cities on the Rebound (1998), an analysis of clues to the successful city of the future; Halfway to Everywhere (2003), a portrait of America’s first tier suburbs; and Changing Metropolitan America: Planning for a More Sustainable Future (2008). Through his writings and the programs he has organized, his work at ULI has concentrated on promoting responsible leadership in the use of the land and in building vital, sustainable metropolitan areas.
Hudnut is the recipient of many awards, including Princeton University’s highest alumni honor, the Woodrow Wilson Award for public service (1986); City and State magazine’s “Nation’s Most Valuable Public Official”(1988); the Rosa Parks Award from the American Association for Affirmative Action (1992); and the Distinguished Public Service Award from the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns (1985).
Hudnut graduated from Princeton University with high honors and election into Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated summa cum laude from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He has received honorary degrees from thirteen colleges and universities.
Panel
Bill Clarke
Planning Consultant
Ross, CA
Mr. Clarke is licensed as both a civil engineer and as a landscape architect and has over 30 years experience in planning, design and construction projects. He currently consults to developers and other planning and design firms and public agencies, on issues ranging from new community plans to site planning and engineering.
For over twenty years Mr. Clarke was with two of the largest landscape architecture firms in the country. As a Principal at The SWA Group in Sausalito, CA, he worked on projects including the Weyerhaeuser Corporate campus outside Tacoma, Washington, the engineering planning for the Woodbridge new community in Irvine, CA and for ARAMCO compounds in Saudi Arabia. As a Principal at EDAW, Inc. Mr. Clarke led a team which won a design competition for a government complex in Doha, Qatar, prepared two specific plans for over 6,000 homes and 800 sqf of office industrial land in Tracy, CA, and prepared construction documents for Washington Harbour in Washington, D.C. In recent years, Mr. Clarke’s work has centered on the planning and implementation of a variety of projects. Among these projects he has been an 11,000 acre residential development near Livermore, CA, for an 800-acre commercial / industrial plan in Tracy, CA, and a 300-acre business park in Livermore, CA. He was also part of a team preparing a resource management plan for the country of Palau. Currently he is working on the implementation of a town center for the new community of Mountain House, CA.
James A. Cloar
Penn Institute for Urban Research Scholar
Tampa, FL
Jim Cloar has spent over 40 years as a professional downtown planner and manager. He is currently affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Institute for Urban Research with the title of “Scholar”. He is writing a book on civic leadership for the 21st Century, with a focus on downtown revitalization.
From 2001 to 2009, Cloar was President & CEO of the membership-funded Partnership for Downtown St. Louis and of the $2.6 million Downtown St. Louis Community Improvement District. He was also President of Downtown Now!, a not-for-profit development corporation which developed, owns, and manages a 30,000 square foot public park/plaza. He chaired the City’s Downtown Economic Stimulus Authority and was on the Board of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, the Fair St. Foundation and the Bridge Outreach (a homeless services agency). In 2006, he received the St. Louis Mayor’s “Quality of Life Award”.
From 1992 to 2001, Cloar was President of the Tampa Downtown Partnership, representing the downtown business community. Accomplishments included initiating and managing a business improvement district, assembling land for a new sports and entertainment arena, developing a downtown park, and facilitating the opening of a downtown elementary school. While in Tampa, he served on the Boards of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, The Florida Aquarium, the University of Tampa and the Tampa Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Previously, he was a Partner and Principal of a Columbia MD-based urban design consulting and prior to that headed the staff of the Urban Land Institute in Washington DC. From 1977 to 1985, he was President of the Central Dallas Association, where his activities included numerous steps leading to implementation of the Dallas Arts District. Cloar has been a consultant or advisor on downtown planning, development and organizational issues to over 50 cities throughout the United States and abroad.
He served 19 years on the Board of Directors of the International Downtown Association and is a former Chair of the organization. In 2009, IDA presented him with its Individual Achievement Award. He is Immediate Past Chair of ULI’s Public-Private Partnership Council (Blue flight) and has been on ULI Advisory Panels addressing downtown planning and development for Raleigh, Orlando, New Orleans, Charlotte and Denver. He is also principal author of the ULI-published book “Centralized Retail Management: New Strategies for Downtown.”
A native of Oklahoma City, Cloar received a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree a and Master of Regional and City Planning degree, both from the University of Oklahoma.
John F. Crowley
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
John F. (Jack) just returned to the University of Georgia where he served 10 years as Dean of the college to found a new professional graduate degree program in Environmental Planning and Design. For the past two years he served Tulsa’s Mayor Taylor as Special Adviser for Urban Planning and Development on a Kaiser Family Foundation Grant. He is a planner, designer, landscape architect and developer. The College houses the largest program of landscape architecture in the United States. Crowley began, following military service in the ’60s, as an urban renewal planner, director of planning for a small town and Chief Planner for Oklahoma’s State Parks. Following 4 years as a Landscape Architect at Georgia he directed Tulsa’s Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. In the ’80s he served as Vice President of Development for a subsidiary of the Williams Companies and built large downtown projects such as Tulsa’s Williams Center, Denver’s Tabor Center, Phase II of Kansas City’s Crown Center, Charlotte’s Independence Center and San Antonio’s Rivercenter. Jack Served as Oklahoma’s Director of The Department of Transportation in the early ’90s before returning to Georgia as dean. He consults on real estate development for The Williams Companies and clients throughout the southeast and Central America. His graduate degrees are in Regional and City Planning and Urban Geography with research in Urban Stormwater Engineering
In the more personal realm, Crowley contributes considerable time in the areas of “pro bono” urban and civic design for cities and towns throughout Georgia and the Southeast. He continues to develop and own real estate projects, serves on numerous boards and commissions and consults. Recently he completed a $130 million technology office structure in Tulsa, OK. Presently he is advising the Williams Companies (Tulsa) on a large mixed-use project in Florida and the Pechanga Development Corporation on a $200 million resort and casino complex in southern California.
Jack is a member of many development and conservation organizations such as the Urban Land Institute and Nature Conservancy. Professionally he is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) and Landscape Architecture (FASLA).
An accomplished artist, Jack loves the outdoors, and travel and aspires to consolidate enough time to play golf.
Tom Hester
Senior Urban Designer
The PlaceMaking Group at PB
Tempe, AZ
Tom is a senior Urban Designer with the PlaceMaking Group at PB. PlaceMaking integrates land use and transportation to plan and design sustainable community development projects with a sense of place. Tom has earned a national reputation for his ability to help public and private sector clients strategically position development projects and improve their overall performance and viability. His strong leadership and management skills have helped diverse groups build consensus and attain project goals. Tom brings skills in zoning, design guidelines, public and private partnerships, real estate finance and development, community planning, and transportation planning and design to his projects. Prior to PB, Tom held senior positions at Canin Associates in Orlando, Civitas, Inc. in Denver Colorado and EDAW in Australia.
Tom earned a bachelor of architecture from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona and a master of architecture in urban design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he earned top honors for leadership and academic studies. He has taught architecture, graphic design, and computer imaging at Cal Poly and Otis College of Art and Design, and has lectured on the integration of information technologies within architectural curricula. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute where he has participated in a number of forums and Advisory Services Panels as well as taught at their Real Estate School.
Tom is currently working on projects in Topeka, KS, Andover, KS, Lewisville, TX and Tempe, AZ.
Charles Johnson, IV
President
Johnson Consulting
Chicago, IL
Charlie Johnson is a nationally recognized consultant with over 22 years of experience in convention, sports, hospitality, and general real estate consulting. Prior to forming Johnson Consulting, he worked for the Chicago-based real estate development firm, Stein & Company, which was design builder for the expansion at McCormick Place in Chicago. Prior to that, he was National Director of KPMG Peat Marwick’s Convention, Sports, and Leisure Consulting practice. He served as program manager for the Puerto Rico Convention Center District project in San Juan, Puerto Rico for four years, and successfully guided that project from an idea to a highly regarded 110-acre urban redevelopment project. He has worked on the expansion analysis of the Buffalo Convention Center, analyzed the merits of the Buffalo Niagara partnership in buying a World Trade Center License and analyzed redevelopment options for the successful bidder for developing Buffalo’s Inner Harbor, Opus East.
Johnson has worked on over 600 public assembly and urban development consulting assignments in the U.S. and abroad.
Anita Morrison
Founding Principal
Partners for Economic Solutions
Washington DC
Anita Morrison founded Partners for Economic Solutions after more than 30 years of economic and development consulting. During her career, Anita has specialized in public/private partnerships, real estate advisory services, redevelopment strategies and economic impact analysis. From large cities to small towns, she applies her understanding of real estate economic fundamentals to questions of development, redevelopment and smart growth. She helps decisions makers and the community to understand how economics and land planning interact. Her market analysis helps to frame the scale, mix and pace of development. Financial analysis evaluates project feasibility, quantifies any funding gap and required investment, and assesses the potential for long-term returns. Fiscal impact analysis forms the basis for realistic and creative funding strategies and allows decision makers to evaluate the potential returns and risks associated with their investment. Anita is adept at incorporating these economic realities into workable solutions.
While working with other consulting firms, she has assisted and represented a number of development agencies with major public/private partnerships, including the District of Columbia Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, the Atlanta Development Authority, the Maryland Department of Transportation, the Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority, the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the Orlando Community Redevelopment Agency, the Armed Forces Retirement Home – Washington and the City of Dallas. In her 12 years as real estate advisor to the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation in Washington, DC, Anita quantified the potential returns from redevelopment as the basis for disposition strategies that encouraged residential, retail and arts development. She evaluated development team proposals for a variety of projects, focusing on the financial feasibility of their proposals and the resulting return to the Corporation. This highly successful endeavor remade the face of “America’s Main Street”, attracting $1.7 billion in private investment.
In her economic development practice, Anita focuses on entrepreneurial economies and technology-driven opportunities. She helps communities build from the ground up, using local talent and resources to create a sustainable economy not dependent on attraction of industry from outside the area. Anita prepared the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for the Oklahoma City Empowerment Community in 2000, focusing on low-income neighborhoods surrounding the downtown. While a Principal at another consulting firm, she helped develop program guidelines and legislation for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s SmartZones program that emphasizes collaborations between the state’s universities and cities. Anita has evaluated market potentials and recommended development strategies for more than a dozen research and technology parks, including the Colorado Science+Technology Park at Fitzsimons, the University Research Park in Madison, WI, the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park, the University of Louisville’s new Shelby Campus and research campus development at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In related assignments with large and small universities, she has developed strategies to leverage University research and workforce development to support local and regional economic growth.
She has served on ULI Panels in Albuquerque, NM, Paterson (NJ), Little Rock (AS) and Salem (OR). Anita earned a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan.
Steven W. Spillman
Principal
Pacifica Companies
Mission Viejo, California
Steve Spillman is a Principal of Pacifica Companies, a national investment, development & advisory firm. He specializes in mixed-use development and has had responsibility for office, retail, multi-family, medical, industrial, corporate, and public projects as well as master planned communities. His experience includes financing, partnership relations, entitlements, marketing, leasing, acquisitions and sales, design and construction, and property management in challenging political and competitive settings.
As the EVP and operating officer of EDC, an affiliate of the $10 billion investment bank W. P. Carey, Mr. Spillman turned around a troubled, high profile public-private project. While a Principal at Mitsui’s Birtcher, he developed and managed office, retail, and mixed-use projects in California & Arizona. At Aetna’s Urban Investment and Development Co., Jaymont Properties, and Burnham Properties, he led the development of high-rise office, multi-family, and retail projects in New York City, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Dallas, and Houston. Mr. Spillman began his career as an architect designing similar projects, including hospitals and medical facilities.
Mr. Spillman is currently a ULI Program Committee Vice Chair, and has chaired Advisory Panels, Urban Development/Mixed-Use Councils, and regional Trends Conferences. He is also ULI’s Council Counselor for its Urban Development/Mixed-Used Councils, Transit Oriented Development Council, and Responsible Property Investment Council. Mr. Spillman served as a board member of the Japan America Society and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Foundation, and chaired the public-private Centraplex Marketing association. He also created and taught ULI financing workshops and a University of California graduate real estate finance course. After attending Purdue University (Everham Scholarship), he earned Bachelor of Architecture (Cum Laude) from Kansas State University, and graduated with an MBA (Investment & Finance) from the University of Missouri.
Ross Tilghman
Director
Tilghman Group
Seattle, WA
Ross Tilghman heads up the Tilghman Group providing transportation planning services. Tilghman brings 24 years of urban planning experience, including serving as executive director of a downtown business improvement district. He provides transportation-related revenue projections, market studies, planning and development strategies to government, not-for-profit, and private sector clients facing real estate development challenges. His projects typically involve downtown revitalization, academic and institutional campus planning, historic district redevelopment, mixed-use projects, special event access, and parking.
Frequently working with nationally recognized planning teams, Tilghman’s recent work includes Master Plans detailing transportation requirements for The Evergreen State College; Gallisteo Basin Preserve, New Mexico; and St. Mary’s College of Maryland as well as for downtowns in Evansville, Indiana; Natchez, Mississippi; St. Louis, Missouri; Green Bay, Wisconsin and Parker, Colorado. Central to these plans are parking studies to determine future demands and space needs from which he develops parking management plans to support planned development. Parking studies have been provided for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Savannah, Georgia; Portland, Oregon, Sioux City, Iowa, and Olympia, Washington. Transit market studies to identify ridership potential for new services were conducted in Denver and Los Angeles. Tilghman has also specialized in transportation planning for state capital campuses working with Washington, Iowa and Minnesota to improve their access and parking programs. Additionally, he has completed special event and recreation area transportation plans for San Diego’s Balboa Park; Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida; the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa; Stones’ River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Shreveport Riverfront, Shreveport, Louisiana; Vicksburg, Mississippi’s Downtown and Riverfront.
Since 2000, Tilghman has been working with the City of Tacoma to address its downtown parking needs including the parking plan for the City’s new convention center. Ross provided the revenue forecasts used to issue parking revenue debt.
Tilghman also served three years as director of a downtown business improvement district in Illinois. He oversaw maintenance, facade improvements, parking, and upper story redevelopment efforts in concert with Main Street redevelopment principles. Ross successfully authored a $1.9 million grant to fund a streetscape construction project completed in 2002.
Tilghman frequently participates in national resource panels assisting communities with development questions. Past assignments include:
• Urban Land Institute Advisory Service Panels
• Mayor’s Institute on City Design
• AIA R/UDAT
• Ohio Design Assistance Team
Tilghman received a A.B., magna cum laude, History, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri and an M.A., Geography, University of Washington, Seattle.
ULI Project Staff
Thomas Eitler, AICP
Vice President, Advisory Services
ULI-the Urban Land Institute
Washington, DC
Tom Eitler is the Vice President of Advisory Services for the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit education and research institute that focuses on issues of land use, real estate and urban development. The mission on the Institute is to providing leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. The Advisory Services Department conducts approximately 20 advisory panels each year that provide strategic advice to communities and organizations on a wide variety of real estate, planning, urban design and development subjects. The panels are week-long events in which ULI members volunteer their time, experience and expertise. The reports prepared by the Advisory Panels usually become the catalyst major policy initiatives or specific action by governments, developers and organizations.
Mr. Eitler is an urban planner and public policy professional with 20 years of experience in comprehensive planning, revitalization, historical preservation, transportation systems, military installation master planning, and sustainable design. He is an expert on zoning law, municipal codes, and urban design and government operations. He has prepared and conducted dozens of community engagement plans, charettes, advisory groups, workshops and panels. Mr. Eitler has authored numerous plans, studies, strategies and reports on urban planning, design, public administration and real estate development. He has directed projects in both the public and private sector in a variety of locations throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining the Urban Land Institute Mr. Eitler was a principal with Community Planning Associates, a land planning consulting firm based headquartered in Washington D.C. Before that he was Director of Operations for the Onyx Group, a planning and architectural firm with offices in Alexandria, Virginia, San Diego and Oakland California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Prior to that, he was a principal planner with local governments in Maryland and Virginia, including Chief of the Long Range Planning for Prince William County Virginia.
He has a Masters in Urban & Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture and undergraduate degrees in political science, public administration and urban studies. Mr. Eitler is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Caroline Dietrich
Panel Associate, Advisory Services
ULI-the Urban Land Institute
Washington, DC
Caroline Dietrich is the Panel Coordinator for the Urban Land Institute. In this capacity, she coordinates the logistics for all of ULI’s advisory panels and advisory service functions. Before joining ULI, Dietrich worked for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, as a gala assistant where she oversaw the planning and production of the annual “Night of Hope” Gala and silent auction. She worked closely with the Gala committee and JDRF staff to help raise over 1.7 million for research. Prior to her work with JDRF, Dietrich spent 6 years as an elementary school teacher in Fairfax, Virginia, teaching social studies and language arts to 5th and 6th graders.
Dietrich has a B.A. of Science from West Chester University in Pennsylvania, and has completed the Event Management certificate program from The George Washington University. She is currently working to become a CMP – Certified Meeting Professional. She grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania and occasionally travels home to visit her family. When not working, Carrie enjoys seeing the sights in D.C., keeping active in sports, and traveling all over the globe. She is an active member of ISES DC, planning special events for groups in the DC area.
Sarah Jo Peterson
Senior Research Associate, Infrastructure Initiative
ULI – Urban Land Institute
Washington, DC
Sarah Jo Peterson is a Senior Research Associate with ULI’s Infrastructure Initiative. As part of the Infrastructure Initiative, she staffs the Curtis Regional Infrastructure Project, which works with the District Councils in Minnesota, Chicago, Seattle and Florida on projects that improve the coordination of infrastructure and land development. She also provides staff support to ULI’s National Transportation Dialogue, focused on the development of federal policy related to land use and transportation. Prior to coming to ULI, Peterson taught urban planning at the University of Oklahoma and worked as a planner for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, specializing in land use and urban strategies. Peterson has a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Wisconsin — Madison and a PhD in American history from Yale University. In her free time, she is completing a book on urban planning for World War II.
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