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  A second chapter (analysis by Robert Leger)
  Posted by jimmcpherson on December 22, 2016 · Leave a Comment
  The Sustainable Communities Collaborative is about to embark on a second chapter. This one will test whether pure collaboration is possible. For the past six years, the Collaborative has brought diverse voices together, forged partnerships across the three cities on the original light-rail corridor, changed the conversation about transit-oriented development and become vital to many […]
  Posted by jimmcpherson on December 15, 2016 · Leave a Comment
  As a director of the Urban Land Institute's Arizona office, Kristen Busby talks to her counterparts around the country. The subject of the Sustainable Communities Collaborative comes up regularly. Two years ago, it was featured for the 12,000 attendees of the Transportation Research Board conference in Washington, D.C. "People all over the country look to […]
  Category: Blog · Tags: Bonnie Richardson, C.J. Hager, Dan Klocke, Jeff McVay, Katie Coles, Kristen Keener Busby, Robert Leger, Scott Jacobson, Shannon Scutari, Silvia Urrutia, Tommy Espinoza
  It would have been heresy to suggest narrowing a street
  Posted by jimmcpherson on December 8, 2016 · Leave a Comment
  Phoenix City Manager Ed Zuercher thinks back two decades to when he joined the city as a management intern. "It would have been heresy to suggest narrowing a street," he says. The opening of Chase Field in 1998 is a prime example. Leaders worried that people would be trapped in congestion after games. "The idea […]
  Category: Blog, Uncategorized · Tags: C.J. Hager, Colin Tetreault, Dan Klocke, Ed Zuercher, Eugene Scott, Galina Tachieva, Greg Stanton, GRID Bike Share, Jim McPherson, Kate Gallego, Katherine Coles, Kristen Keener Busby, Mesa, Phoenix, Prop 104, Reinvent PHX, Robert Leger, Shannon Scutari, Silvia Urrutia, Tempe
  The amazement has not faded
  Posted by jimmcpherson on December 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment
  Six years later, Tommy Espinoza's amazement has not faded. The CEO of Phoenix-based Raza Development Fund recalls the press conference when the Sustainable Communities Collaborative was announced. "I was blown away because every mayor was there. So were council members and elected officials from each city." That was the plan. The Collaborative's founders knew lasting […]
  Category: Blog · Tags: Ben Limmer, Dan Klocke, Hugh Hallman, Mesa, Michael Rubinger, Michael Trailor, Phil Gordon, Phoenix, Robert Leger, Scott Smith, Tempe, Teresa Brice, Tommy Espinoza
  Each has a success story
  Posted by jimmcpherson on November 24, 2016 · Leave a Comment
  Matt Seaman has lived in downtown Phoenix for two decades. For years he would pass the vacant lot at Roosevelt Street and First Avenue and shake his head. First Avenue forked, with one branch sweeping over to Central Avenue and the other dead-ending at Roosevelt. The result: a perfectly good piece of land was split […]
  Category: Blog · Tags: Avein Saaty-Tafoya, Dan Klocke, Doug Gannett, Jeff McVay, Jon Kitchell, Katherine Coles, Lorenzo Perez, Matt Seaman, Mesa, Phoenix, Robert Leger, Shannon Scutari, Tempe, Tommy Espinoza
  An audacious premise
  Posted by jimmcpherson on November 17, 2016 · Leave a Comment
  The Sustainable Communities Collaborative began with an audacious premise. In a culture that emphasizes competition, it would ask people to set aside their self-interest and work toward a common goal. It would bring diverse interests into the room and ask them to share ideas, stretch beyond where they were comfortable and accept that getting less […]
  Category: Blog · Tags: Ben Limmer, Dan Klocke, Greg Stanton, Hugh Hallman, Jeff McVay, Katherine Coles, Kristen Keener Busby, Mesa, Phoenix, Robert Leger, Scott Smith, Shannon Scutari, Silvia Urrutia, Tempe, Teresa Brice, Tommy Espinoza
  Posted by admin on September 12, 2016 · Leave a Comment
  From time to time, we'll share our thoughts, impressions, and bits of news about things sustainable, things community focused, and things of a collaborative nature. Once we post, your feedback is welcome!