Housing & Community Development
Sensible Growth Committee
Regional Planning & Investments Committee
Government Relations
Housing & Community Development
This committee focuses on policies and direct assistance projects dealing with housing affordability and equitable, balanced development. The committee is co-chaired by Stephen M. Porras, president, Axia Development, Inc., and Maria P. Hibbs, executive director, The Partnership for New Communities.
Stephen M. Porras
Maria P. Hibbs
Projects:
Mark A. Angelini
Mercy Housing Lakefront, Co-Chair
Bennett Applegate
Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen, P.C.
Forrest D. Bailey
Draper and Kramer
David E. Baker
Illinois Institute of Technology
Lee Brown
Teska Associates, Inc.
Karen S. Butler
Great Harbor Advisors
Paul C. Carlisle
Wintrust Financial Corporation
Pamela Daniels-Halisi
The PrivateBank
Paul B. Fischer
Peter Friedman
Holland & Knight LLP
Andrew E. Geer
Enterprise Community Investments
Joseph A. Gregoire
PNC Bank
Kathy H. Hannan
KPMG LLP
Maria P. Hibbs
The Partnership for New Communities, Co-Chair
Robert A. Hutchins
Juanita Irizarry
The Chicago Community Trust
Sokoni Karanja
Centers for New Horizons, Inc.
Peter Levavi
Brinshore Development LLC
Bernard Loyd
Urban Juncture, Inc.
Wyllys Mann
John G. Markowski
Community Investment Corporation
Robert E. Miller
Applied Real Estate Analysis, Inc.
Gregory T. Mutz
Amli Residential Properties Trust
Stephen M. Porras
Axia Development, Inc., Co-Chair
Sylvia Puente
Latino Policy Forum
Jesse H. Ruiz
Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
S. Michael Rummel
Rummel Associates Inc.
Lisa Snow
Davis & Hosfield Consulting LLC
A. Gail Sturm
ProTen Realty Group
Bruce W. Taylor
Taylor Capital Group
Mindy W. Turbov
Turbov Associates
Sylvia A. Van Loveren
Walgreen Co.
Mary W. Vasys
Vasys Consulting Ltd.
Mijo Vodopic
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Joseph A. Williams
Granite Development Corporation
Sensible Growth Committee
This committee focuses on policies and direct assistance projects dealing with land use, planning, and the environment. The committee is co-chaired by Todd Brown, and Joseph A. Gonzalez, Global Director of Design, Ghafari Associates.
Todd Brown
Projects:
Calvert W. Audrain
Byron Brazier
Joseph A. Gonzalez
Apostolic Church of God
Todd C. Brown
Co-Chair
Christopher B. Burke
Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.
Robert K. Clough
Loebl Schlossman and Hackl, Inc.
Ellen C. Craig
Kristina Dalman
Daspin & Aument LLP
Mark de la Vergne
Sam Schwartz Engineering
Edward Glatfelter
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Scott Goldstein
Teska Associates, Inc.
Joseph A. Gonzalez
Ghafari Associates, Co-Chair
Linda Goodman
Goodman Williams Group
John F. Hartray
Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects Ltd.
Cheri Heramb
AECOM Consult, Inc.
Elizabeth I. Holland
Abbell Associates
Lawrence Howe
The Chicago Community Trust
Thomas C. Kirschbraun
Jones Lang LaSalle
John N. LaPlante
T.Y. Lin International, Inc.
James E. Mann
John M. McDonough
Sidley Austin LLP
Nora Moreno Cargie
The Boeing Company
Karla Olson Teasley
Illinois American Water
Donovan W. Pepper
Walgreen Co.
Anne R. Pramaggiore
ComEd
Douglas P. Regan
Northern Trust
Jean Rudd
JR Strategies
Unmi Song
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Michael A. Toolis
VOA Associates, Inc.
William Woodley
The Community Builders, Inc.
Ferhat Zerin
Ginkgo Planning & Design
Regional Planning & Investments Committee
This committee focuses on policies and direct assistance projects dealing with financing, taxes, investments and capital. The committee is co-chaired by Pedro J. Cevallos-Candau, Ph.D., executive vice president, Primera Engineers, Ltd.; and Paul Nowicki, assistant vice president, government and policy, BNSF Railway Company.
Paul Nowicki
Projects:
John W. Baird
Baird & Warner, Inc.
Mark Bookman
Ernest & Young LLP
Carole L. Brown
Barclays Capital
Ellen Carnahan
Machrie Enterprises LLC
Pedro J. Cevallos-Candau, Ph.D.
Primera Engineers, Ltd., Co-Chair
Alison L. Chung
TeamWerks
Jon B. DeVries
Roosevelt University
Scott Edwards
Veolia
Anne Edwards-Cotter
Cotter Consulting, Inc.
David A. Farley
Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
Nancy Fishman
Grand Victoria Foundation
Bernard J. Ford
Cassandra Francis
Clayco, Inc.
James C. Franczek
Franczek Radelet P.C.
Jacques N. Gordon
Jones Lang LaSalle
King Harris
Harris Holdings
David Hiller
McCormick Foundation
Dirk Lohan
Lohan Anderson, LLC
Mary K. Ludgin
Heitman
Daniel J. Lynch
United Airlines
Peter Malecek
Bank of America
Timothy W. Martin
PMA Consultants
Pete Mesha
Wight & Company
Thomas H. Morsch
Scott Balice Strategies
Paul Newman
Motorola, Inc.
Michael Noblett
IBM
Paul E. Nowicki
BNSF Railway Company, Co-Chair
Michael A. Pagano
University of Illinois at Chicago, CUPPA
Ellen Partridge
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael W. Payette
Union Pacific Corporation
Jorge Perez
Hispanic American Construction Industry Association
Jorge Ramirez
Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
George A. Ranney
Metropolis Strategies
Robert G. Reiter
Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Chris Robling
Jayne Thompson & Associates, Ltd
Maria N. Saldaña
Cook County Bureau of Economic Development
Stephen E. Schlickman
University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Joanne V. Schroeder
Vlecides-Schroeder Associates, Inc.
Paul W. Shadle
DLA Piper
Smita Shah
SPAAN Tech, Inc.
Martin Stern
U.S. Equities Realty, LLC
James P. Stirling
UBS
Paula Wolff
Metropolis Strategies
Paula Worthington
University of Chicago
Government Relations
This committee focuses on advancing MPC's government affairs capabilities and improving our effectiveness in the legislative and executive arenas. The committee is co-chaired by Robert V. Fitzsimmons, Partner, K&L Gates LLP; and Kevin C. Richardson, President, Heartland Solutions Group.
Robert V. Fitzsimmons
Kevin C. Richardson
Rita R. Athas
World Business Chicago
Christopher B. Burke, Ph.D.
Christopher B. Burke Engineering, LLC
Robert V. Fitzsimmons
K&L Gates LLP, Co-Chair
James C. Franczek, Jr.
Franczek Radelet P.C.
John S. Gates
PortaeCo, LLC
Linda Goodman
Goodman Williams Group
James E. Mann
Paul E. Nowicki
BNSF Railway Company
J. Scot Pepper
Pepper Construction Company
Kevin C. Richardson
Heartland Solutions Group, Co-Chair
Jesse H. Ruiz
Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
