Ben Carlson and Mitch Glass present at 2014 SNEAPA Conference

Goody Clancy’s Director of Urban Design, Ben Carlson, and Senior Urban Designer, Mitch Glass, led a session – Innovation Districts in My Backyard: Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT – at the 2014 Southern New England American Planning Association Annual Conference. Ben and Mitch were joined on the panel by our clients from Cambridge and New Haven: Iram Farooq, Acting Deputy Director, Cambridge Community Development Department, and Erik Johnson, Executive Director, Livable Cities Initiative. The session explored two neighborhood-adjacent innovation districts – Cambridge’s Kendall Square and New Haven’s Hill-to-Downtown – to understand their urban, community and economic contexts, strategies for growth, and what lies ahead for both neighborhoods.

David Spillane, Principal for Planning & Urban Design also participated on the panel TOD Catches the Wave with Goody Clancy clients Steve Fontana, Deputy Director of Economic Development, City of New Haven, George Proakis, AICP, Director of Planning, Somerville, MA, and William DePasquale, AICP – Director of Planning, City of Warwick, RI.