Details — "Reaching for the Future: Competing in the 21st Century" — September 22
| Date: 9/22 | Time: Noon |
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At noon on Friday, September 22, in Quigley Auditorium, former Pittsburgh mayor, Tom Murphy, will discuss how Pittsburgh has become an international model for how a city reinvents itself. How did this revitalization happen? What are the factors and decisions that drove its success? Other cities in the world are thriving—but who are they? What do they have in common with Pittsburgh?
Tom Murphy is an Urban Land Institute senior resident fellow and the Kingbell Family Chair for Urban Development. As the former three-term mayor of Pittsburgh, he initiated a public/private partnership strategy that leveraged Carnegie Mellon University’s academic presence to create regional economic development in technology fields and more than $4.5 billion in economic development. He also developed strategic partnerships to transform more than 1,000 acres of blighted, abandoned industrial properties into new commercial, residential, retail, and public uses, and he oversaw the development of more than 25 miles of new riverfront trails and parks. Sponsored by the Center for Business & Economics and the Law and Policy Program.