Overview
"Live here, work here, play here" say developers promoting urban mixed-use projects. But in reality, putting these projects together presents new legal, land use, financing and environmental challenges for which many lawyers and related professionals are unprepared -- especially in urban areas where they are most needed for core revitalization. This seminar will feature many of the best known practitioners in the mixed-use area to help prepare the region's lawyers to better handle the challenges of mounting these projects in urban settings.
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Schedule
8:00am- 8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am - 8:45am - listen
Welcome Remarks
Steven J. Kaminshine, Dean
Georgia State University
College of Law
Introduction
Colin Crawford, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director
Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth
8:45am - 9:00am - listen
Urban Development – Due Diligence and the Added Costs of Developing Today
Patti Pearlberg - Coro Realty Advisors, LLC
9:00am - 10:15am
Entitlement – Winding Through the Approval Process for Mixed Use Developments
• Mixed use zoning–what does it mean?
• Infrastructure requirements
• Design issues Master Planning
• Growth Management strategies
Laurel David - Dillard & Galloway, LLC
David Green - Lord, Aeck & Sargent Architecture
Julian Juergensmeyer, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth
Carl Westmoreland - Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
10:15am - 10:30am
Break sponsored by Coro Realty Advisors, LLC
10:30am - 12:00pm - listen
Structuring the Mixed Use Development
Linda Curry - Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco
Clay Howell - King & Spalding, LLP
Abe Schear - Arnall, Golden & Gregory
12:00pm - 1:15pm - listen
Lunch
Equitable Development (1 ethics hour)
Carlton Eley - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1:15pm - 2:45pm - listen
Project Financing
• Construction financing for infrastructure
• Bonding issues and alternative financing methods, TAD, TIF
• Permanent debt – separate loans or master loans
Moderator Basil Mattingly - Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
Janice Griffith - Professor of Law Georgia State University College of Law
Mike Rodgers - Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Break sponsored by Kazmarek, Geiger and Laseter LLP
3:00pm - 3:45pm - listen
Environmental Considerations
• Pitfalls of urban sites
• Brownfield development
• Building "green”
Moderator Colin Crawford - Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth
Skip Kazmarek - Kazmarek Geiger & Laseter, LLP
Scott Laseter - Kazmarek Geiger & Laseter, LLP
Carol Geiger - Kazmarek Geiger & Laseter, LLP
H. Lee Walker - Alston & Bird, LLP
3:45pm - 4:30pm - listen
Construction Contracts
• Contract considerations in densely populated areas
• Considerations in a mixed use environment with multiple contractors
• Warranties
Jeffrey A. Belkin - Alston & Bird, LLP
Jeff Plowman - Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Closing Remarks
Patti Pearlberg, Esq.
