CEO of National League of Cities Clarence Anthony Clarence Anthony opens the State of the Cities #sotc event.

Excellent upcoming, free Creative Placemaking webinar on July 12 with Nella Young and Enterprise Community Partners register here: ow.ly/li0030kJieU

Six communities to receive assistance on small-scale manufacturing and neighborhood revitalization | Smart Growth America ow.ly/6Aye30lxxQ7

reminder: tomorrow is the deadline to apply for a Rose Center Public Officials Scholarship to the ULI Fall Meeting. (And the application is really short and simple!) ow.ly/YdJc30lIsIQ

Excited to be kicking off #uliFall with the City and Real Estate Sustainability Summit. Folks are here representing 7 U.S. cities and 11 large real estate owners and developers. Great conversation.

Learning about PACE (Property-assessed clean energy) programs. 35 states have passed enabling legislation. The market was $2.3B last year. $1B was Connecticut’s CPACE, $1B was California’s residential PACE. The other $300M was divided among the other 32 states. #ulifall

In a great meeting at #ulifall with Alan Razak of AthenianRazak about teaching public-private partnerships. We are very proud to count him as a guest expert at the Rose Center. danielrosecenter.org/people/alan-ra…

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms drew inspiration from theologian Howard Thurman for her remarks today at #SEEDatlanta “Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.”

Andre Pettigrew @andrePettigrew is discussing how important legacy businesses are, and he observes that in southern cities like Atlanta and Durham, there are 100-year old black-owned businesses that contribute immensely to community identity. #SEEDatlanta

Todd Leverette of The Democracy at Work Institute is explaining opportunity created by new federal legislation that cities can use to support worker-owned Co-operatives. #SEEDatlanta

Santra Denis of Catalyst Miami explained the unique inter-generational and human capacity development opportunities of promoting legacy businesses.

Shevanthi Daniel of The Democracy at Work Institute explains how co-operative businesses can help solve the problems of a racial wealth gap and the eminent retirement of many small business owners. #SEEDatlanta

Bill Generett of Duquesne University discusses knowledge gaps among CDFIs and the business community and other implementation challenges of supporting legacy businesses as a part of #SEEDatlanta @BGenerett

Director Jess Zimbabwe is in Santo Domingo today presenting at a forum on smart cities RT INTEC: Hoy presentamos el seminario “Ciudades Inteligentes e Innovación: retos desde la sostenibilidad y el desarrollo territorial”

Equitable Economic Development Fellow MarthaBrown of Milwaukee reflects on a recent exchange trip to Japan: citiesspeak.org/2018/12/17/an-…

Hearing from the Richmond, Virginia team about their redevelopment efforts in Shockhoe Bottom at #uliSpring #roseFellowship

Very nice page of resources for cities from our friends at the Mayors' Institute on City Design Trinity Simons Mayors' Institute on City Design ow.ly/ulMK30jTjsg

We love the idea of this column, and hope to see the work of some Rose Fellows featured here in the near future! In Something We Trust: Overcoming Challenges to Deliver Better Government Services » Community | GovLoop ow.ly/oojB30k3pU8 GovLoop @nolasaratexas

Big news! Great work Mayors and CEOs for US Housing Investment National League of Cities Elisha Harig-Blaine Brooks Rainwater Kaiser Permanente to commit $200 million to help communities reduce homelessness ow.ly/pg4i30k446O