Colorado Brownfields Conference 2013

Continuing Education Credits: Legal/CLE (12 hrs approved), Real Estate (10 hrs approved),American Planning Association-CM (pending), Appraisal (pending)

Conference Sessions

Presentations are linked to speakers as Available

Opening Keynote

Dan Heffernan, Brownfields Unit Leader & Johanna Miller, Program Director, Site Assessment & Revitalization

Brownfields 101

Presented by: Fonda Apostolopoulos, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; and Stephanie Metz, US Environmental Protection Agency

Fracking – Questions, Answers, and the Unknown

Presented by: Steve Jorgensen, Alfred Benesh & Company; Stuart Ellsworth, Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission; Leonard Slosky, Slosky & Company; Manuel Esquibel, City of Brighton; and Mayor Tommy Holton, City of Fort Lupton

Financing Roundtable

Funders include: Colorado Housing & Finance Authority; US Dept. of Agriculture – Rural Development; Colorado Department of Local Affairs; Colorado Division of Oil & Public Safety; US Environmental Protection Agency; and Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment

Urban Redevelopment

Presented by: Cindy Everett, Urban Land Conservancy; Brad Wienig, Enterprise Community Partners

Rural Revitalization

Presented by: Kathryn Finau, KSF Strategic Services; Louis Fineberg, City of Trinidad; Shane Hale, City of Cortez

Public/Private Partnerships

Presented by David Starnes, City of Longmont; Dan Schneider Terracon; Kimberlee McKee, Downtown Longmont; and Clair White; Cheese Importers

South Platte River Corridor Redevelopment Project

Presented by: Tim Watkins, Courtland Hyser, and Dave Wilmoth, City and County of Denver; and Jesse Silverstein; Colorado Brownfields Foundation

Make Your Market - Real Estate Update & How to Leverage Opportunities with Brownfields Funding

Presented by Esther Kettering, Cassidy Turley Colorado; Tony Chacon, City of Westminster; Wayne Hunsperger, Hunsperger & Weston, Ltd.; Steve Davis; Community Builders, Inc.

Colorado Economic & Demographic Outlook

Presented by: Patty Silverstein, Development Research Partners; and Elizabeth Garner, Colorado State Demography Office

Historic Preservation 101

Presented by: Cynthia Nieb, Colorado Historical Society; Patrick Eidman, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation; and Katherine Correll, Downtown Colorado, Inc.

Construction Surprises – How NOT to Get Bit!

Presented by: Fonda Apostolopoulos, Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment; and Dan Schneider, Terracon

Project Funding For Cost Recovery

Presented by: Michael Goodstein, Hunsucker & Goodstein Law; and Eric Williams, Frontier Renewal

The Business of Urban Agriculture

Presented by: Stephen Fisher, PE, University of Colorado Denver; Jerry Tinianow, City and County of Denver; Matthew C. "Quint" Redmond, TSR Agristruction – Agriburbia

Recent Developments in Environmental Due DiligencePresented by: Maki Iatridis, Berg Hill Greenleaf; Ruscitti, LLP; Alissa Schulz, Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment; Leonard Slosky, Slosky & Company

West Haymarket Rail Yard Project

resented by: Frank Uhlarik, City of Lincoln, NE; and James Heckman, Alfred Benesh & Company

Creative Funding Solutions for Capital Projects

Presented by: Tia Cavender, Chase Park Grants, LLC

Brownfield Innovations Across the Nation

Presented by Susan Boyle, GEI Consultants; Tom Swartz, Marsh; and Polly Jessen, Kaplan Kirsch Rockwell

Renewable Energy on Contaminated SitesPresented by: Gail Mosey and Otto VanGeet, National Renewal Energy Laboratory; and Tim Rehder, USEPA
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