I didn't have room for it in last week's column, but so far the members of the team that are known include:
Alan Mallach, FAICP- Team Leader
Research Fellow, National Housing Institute
Author, most recently of Bringing Buildings Back: From Abandoned Properties to Community Assets
Mallach has worked in "business, government, and academe."
Grace Perdomo, Assoc. AIA, Urban Design
Wallace + Perdomo, Inc.
Coral Gables FL
Experienced in public housing redevelopment and New Urbanist/traditional neighborhood design.
Michael Clarke, Community Development and Vacant Properties
Program Director, LISC Buffalo
Buffalo NY
Paul Lambert, Market Specialist
Managing Principal, Lambert Advisory LLC
John Hager ASLA, RLA, LEED AP, Open/Green Space
JACOBS CONSULTANCY Advance Planning Group
St. Louis, Missouri
In case all those letters mean nothing to you, Hager is a landscape architecture, open space specialist, and certified in green building principles.
Carletta Singleton, Transportation Planner
Principal, Singleton Consulting Group, LLC
Member, Regional Planning Commission
Birmingham, Alabama
There will (may?) also be a community visioning expert and/or green building architect. (It seems obvious to me that it should be the visioning expert, what with the comp plan coming up, much as I like green building, but I guess visioning folks are in high demand.)