2021-2022 Civic Design Center Annual Report

Civic Design Center Annual report

July 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022

LETTER FROM the CEO mission

During the 2021-2022 fiscal year, the Civic Design Center celebrated our 20th Anniversary. Reflecting on our past and adapting for the future have been two important themes during this special year. Our team spent months researching our history, gathering stories, and interviewing our founders to put together a mini-documentary about our origin story. Through that retrospective, it became clear that the Civic Design Center’s role today is just as important as it was the day we were founded.

The last few years have presented great challenges for the Design Center and the greater Nashville community, however, the team’s commitment has remained unwavering. In conjunction with our Origin Story, we launched our new Guiding Principles for Civic Design during our Annual Luncheon in 2021. The Principles were adapted from the 10 Principles of The Plan of Nashville, but now

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The Civic Design Center’s mission is to advocate for civic design visions and actionable change in communities to improve quality of life for all.

include 2 additional principles reflecting newer issues of housing and sustainability. Our bedrock in grassroots organizing, community engagement, and visioning has guided us to evolve. Each Principle was updated to reflect socially-conscious design and have goals rooted in equity. These community-driven planning and design ideals set an example for community development in Tennessee and beyond.

Something special that comes from both our Origin Story as well as our newly adapted Guiding Principles are the incredible discussions and partnerships that took place. Having worked with the Civic Design Center for 20 years and spoken to numerous cities that have wanted to replicate the successes we have here in Nashville, it is clear that we have a truly special partnership with our city’s government, from the Mayor’s Office and Metro Council Members to departments like Planning, the new Department of Transportation, and so many others. I believe that is a critical element of our success.

I’d like to outline some examples of this from the past year. Alongside Council Member Nancy Van Reece, we collected ideas from community members to help shape the future park at Madison Station Blvd. Our Nashville Youth

Design Team helped convince the Tennessee Department of Transportation to install an experimental crosswalk intervention at 2021’s deadliest intersection in Nashville. We hosted the first public launch of the Metro Planning’s Imagine East Bank Draft Vision Plan and released our ideas for how this vision could take shape informing a switch to include bike lanes on the main envisioned thoroughfare.

These examples don’t even begin to cover the advocacy work we have done and the visions we have created alongside community partners this year. Nashville’s growth has momentum, which means we must continue to be rooted in our Guiding Principles in order to live out the mission created over 20 years ago: to improve quality of

Reflecting on 20 years...

The Civic Design Center was founded by a collaborative effort of Nashville advocates working in design, journalism, and historic preservation. Mayor Bill Purcell committed to supporting the distinctly non-governmental concept of the Design Center.

20 years of grassroots visions and advocacy led us here.

Watch the Origin Story at civicdesigncenter.org/our-purpose/history

People

For Annual Luncheon 2021, we celebrated our 20th Anniversary. We hosted a virtual panel conversation with Christine Kreyling, Kim Hawkins, and Mayor Bill Purcell—who were each critical to our organization’s founding— and we launched our Origin Story Video. At the recpetion, we launched our Guiding Principles for Civic Design alongside our sponsors.

Highlights Events

don’t know what to advocate for if they don’t know what’s possible and so we needed to help people understand what was possible.

—Kim Hawkins, Founder

1. 7.21 Clarksville Downtown Commons Park Tour

2. 8/21 Church Street Park Open House

3. 9/21 PARK(ing) Day Series: Small Business Parklet Activation

4. 11/21 20th Anniversity

Luncheon

5. 12/21 Activating Waterways

6. 1/22 Representation in Civic Design

7. 2/22 Foundation in Civic Design

8. 3/22 Preservation in Civic Design

9. 3/22 Book Club with Majora

10. 4/22 Expansion in Civic Design 9

11. 5/22 Spring Spectacular

12. 6/22 PechaKucha 41: A House of My Own

13. 8/22 East Bank: A

Vision for Nashville Neighborhoods

14. 9/22 PARK(ing) Day Series: Housing as a Public Right

15. 10/22 PechaKucha 42: Play Your Part

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During the Spring Spectacular, local artists live-painted their interpretation of our Guiding Principles Pillars while attendees took the Community Insights survey, which asked them to share their Principle priorities.

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For the first time ever, it rained on PARK(ing) Day 2021! The community still showed up for public space on Anne Dallas Dudley Boulevard and 2nd Ave North, with MTSU taking the Best Overall Parklet Golden Cone.

Education

Our team always enjoys hosting UT Knoxville’s Architecture design reviews. City leaders, local architects, and our own staff mentor the students on how to better incorporate civic design into their projects.

This year, we hosted 2 cohorts of Socially Conscious Design 101 in partnership with HASTINGS and AIA Middle Tennessee. Speakers included Joni Priest, Fabian Bedne, and Kelsey Oesmann.

Event Spotlight

PARK(ing) Day traditionally empowers participants to get creative about the use of public space in our streets, taking over metered parking spaces to highlight the sheer amount of land we set aside for cars over humans. This year, we decided to theme our participation in the global event, “Housing as a Public Right.” The story begins in November of 2021, when we unveiled our new Guiding Principles for Civic Design. The Principles have two new priorities: housing and sustainability.

It’s simple to understand—Nashville has a housing shortage, especially housing that is attainable and affordable for all.

We started planning the event by recruiting housing and homelessness experts to create prompts to inspire parklet builders. During the Skyline Social event that happens in July, potential parklet builders met with experts to choose their prompts that would guide their PARK(ing) Day installations.

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4,793 attendees

Board President, Tifinie Capehart, and Deputy Mayor Haywood tour the parklets, enjoying Dryden + JE Dunn’s parklet (right). Community members interact with the prompts at ASD|SKY and Smith Gee Studio’s parklets (below). ASD|SKY asked participants, “do you think houseless individuals below in our public spaces?”

“These are some of the most important conversations to be having in this century and I’d love to see more people treating the houseless community with love and respect; they are humans and deserve everything housed individuals deserve. Furthermore, when a person has nowhere to turn, they should at least feel welcomed and able to enjoy public spaces.”

—Suzanne Merlino, ASD|SKY

On September 16th, some parklet builders created full scale models of transitional housing structures, while others took an educational route, asking attendees to consider their own life experiences compared to data. From seesawing with strangers to playing games with shocking statistics, the activities brought lighthearted fun to a very serious topic.

EOA Architects partnered up with Moody Nolan and MCR Group to build a transitional housing structure that can be deployed in rain or shine.

The parklet won the Most Innovative Golden Cone Award and it was donated to Open Table Nashville to be used by houseless individuals.

Partner Spotlight

Design Center has been a proud partner with Mars Petcare in the BETTER CITIES FOR PETS™ program since its inception in 2017. With the marked increase in pet ownership and findings supporting the power of pets to positively impact human physical and mental health, our efforts in making pets more considered and welcomed – in both public and private spaces – has become even more critical in a post-pandemic world.

As a primary impact partner in the Better Cities for Pets program, we help to anticipate and address planning, design and programming needs that support pets, pet owners and non-pet owners alike. Key annual efforts include thought, toolkit and activation leadership, assessment and

grants design and administration. In 2021-22 our work involved new learnings and initiatives that consider how pets become further integrated into homes/ housing, businesses, travel, hotels, workplaces, and public spaces.

Nationally, Civic Design Center led and administered the Better Cities for Pets Grants Program, a mini-grant program for cats, and a new Better Cities for Pets Airport Assessment and Certification. We were proud to help award Nashville International Airport with the first Better Cities for Pets Airport

Certification (image left) as well as five other cities by year’s end. Civic Design Center continued its work, engagement and support of over one hundred Better Cities for Pets certified cities and twentyone grant recipients. We provided design guidance and toolkit contributions to six areas of program work and led or supported ten local and national program activations—including public input initiatives.

As we look to 2023, we’re excited to further expand our work in Mars Petcare’s Better Cities for Pets program in helping to support cities and their two and four-legged community members locally, regionally, nationally and beyond.

Partner Spotlight

After 2 decades of leading students visionary work, 2022 was the first Nashville Urban Design Studio without former Civic Design Center Design Director and UTK Professor T.K. Davis at the helm. A new partnership with Openworks designers, Will Rosenthal and Clay Adkisson was a big success hosted at the Civic Design Center office. Students analyzed 3 major pikes around Nashville: Gallatin Pike, Charlotte Pike, and Murfreesboro Pike. They evaluated circulation, nearby amenties and walkability of their sites.

CIVIC DESIGN CENTER

PROGRAMS

Our Design Your Neighborhood youth education program for middle school students launched a BIG new project this year called the Sustainable Transportation Paint Challenge.

Supported by 3M and AllianceBernstein, students at Jere Baxter, J.T. Moore, Rose Park Magnet Middle, and Madison Middle Schools learned strategies to promote walking, biking, and taking the bus to campus safely. They finished the project by painting placemaking and tra c calming interventions on campus!

4 schools installed placemaking and traffic calming ground murals designed by youth

Continued partnership with WeGo Transit to put student artwork under the theme of “neighborhood identity” on 20 bus stop benches

Vanderbilt University released data that shows Design Your Neighborhood’s significant impact on youth

NASHVILLE YOUTH DESIGN TEAM

The Nashville Youth Design Team, our high school internship program, met in-person for their Summer Intensive at Belmont University in 2021 and 2022. Returning interns taught new interns about the connection between wellness and the built environment.

The interns split into committees to learn more about di erent issues, from transportation to a ordable housing. In 2021, the Community Resources Committee's project proposal for a Glow in the Dark Crosswalk on Dickerson Pike was chosen. It inspired a Tennessee Department of Transportation Complete Streets project for a 2-mile stretch on the pike to improve pedestrian safety. In 2022, a group focused on Youth-Oriented Spaces proposed a temporary mini soccer pitch in Antioch Park, which came to life as a major 1-day tournament for youth and teens!

Youth Wellness Map is completed with data from 193 youth respondents

5 NYDT members led a Nashville Design Week event about youth wellness in the built environment

STUDIO Design

Introducing... the Guiding Principles

For a full year, beginning in 2020, our staff evaluated each of the 10 Principles of The Plan of Nashville against the new Civic Design Center brand identity and our Socially Conscious Design Principles: promotes inclusivity, amplifies voices, identifies overlooked problems, increases awareness, builds support, creates equity, and raises quality of life for all. The Guiding Principles were then thoughtfully evaluated by a committee of Board Members and community stakeholders.

Instead of adapting each individual Principle from the 10 Principles to reflect the new brand, we worked to deepen the meaning of all the Principles and expand the audience. This showcases that while Nashville is where we make the most impact, the Civic Design Center is poised to be an inspiration for communities throughout the country.

In an ideal world, there are 4 pillars of community design—Representation, Foundation, Preservation, and Expansion—in that order. One pillar cannot exist without considering the others. In order for community design to reflect its residents, those members must be included in the process.

See the next page to learn more about the Guiding Principles and their pillars, or visit www.civicdesigncenter.org/guiding-principles

We finally launched the Guiding Principles during our Annual Luncheon in November 2021. From January through April of 2022, we hosted a Guiding Principle event series (photo above) that paired leaders from various industries to discuss the importance of each

Guiding Principle pillar within an ecosystem of design and planning ideals for which we should strive as a community.

The Guiding Principles for Civic Design are a representation that the Civic Design Center exists as a major collaborator with community members, a breadth of advocacy organizations, and municipalities.

Project Feature Representation Pillar

Follow planning, design and development processes that are grounded in community involvement.

Inclusion

Tennessee is spearheading an initiative to create a community center that creates a welcoming and safe environment for LGBTQIA+ community members to belong and thrive. This includes connecting community members, aligning and creating relevant programming, addressing the existing gaps, and building resiliency among current LGBTQIA+ serving organizations.

The Civic Design Center was hired by Inclusion Tennessee to conduct further community engagement and data collection to inform the future community center’s design features. We hosted an engagement booth at Nashville PRIDE, design charrette at Thistle Farms as well as a virtual community feedback session. We collected community feedback on geographic locations for where people would like to see LGBTQIA+ resources in Middle Tennessee

What

and the results spanned 22 counties! This demonstrated that community centers are greatly needed in rural areas.

Feedback for priority community center design elements as well as desired resources and programming features. The top 3 components that community members want to see in the future Center are a health clinic, a nonprogrammed cafe or community area to make organic connections, and having a controlled access space so community members can truly feel safe inside the Center. Stay tuned as the project progresses into more design visioning as Inclusion Tennessee seeks funding to build the Center.

A solid, foundational place to foster the sharing of resources, acessing safe living, and building community growth and progress.

do you want the future LGBTQIA+ Community Center to look like?

Project Feature Representation Pillar

Integrate diverse expressions of public art into buildings and community spaces.

Our Design Studio worked with 2 schools to implement placemaking art projects on their campuses. These projects were both focused on representing community identity.

One of the schools, Robert Churchwell Magnet Middle School is located in the historically Black neighborhood of North Nashville. Project Manager, Angel Adams, and local Muralist, Woke3, partnered with us on the project to engage with the students, creating a vision for a placemaking mural that would represent their identities. Woke3 had a special connection to this project having attended Robert Churchwell in his youth.

The final mural incorporates a mountain of books with children’s names on them and young Black kids reading so the students might see themselves in the art. The main feature is a lighthouse, which is an homage to the phrase “education is a lighthouse.” Thanks to 3M for funding the youth engagement, traffic calming, and the final mural.

The other school was Aventura Community School, which is a public K-8 school in Southeast Nashville. It is the first duallanguage charter school, where most students are native Spanish speakers, and the youngest students spend 80% of their day speaking Spanish. They approached the Civic Design Center to create a more designated play area for group activities in the parking lot. Feedback from students and families was in both Spanish and English, and the final design included Mexican and Latin American symbolism including butterflies in the crosswalk.

The students helped plant colorful flowers in the planter boxes that would surround the play area, so they could watch them grow during the school year.

Project Feature Expansion Pillar

Celebrate streets as places that address neighborhood needs and facilitate community interactions.

In 2020, between E Trinity Lane and the I-65 entrance ramp on Dickerson Pike, there were 5 pedestrian deaths, and in 2021, that same area took the lives of another 2 pedestrians, totaling 7 people in just 2 years. While 1 death is too many, it may be an accident. When there are 7 deaths on the same 2 mile stretch of road, this is a design problem, and the problem is that Dickerson Pike is designed for fast moving cars.

To propose solutions to this design problem, the Design Studio partnered with Walk Bike Nashville to study pedestrian safety along Dickerson Pike between Trinity Lane and Ewing Drive. Made possible with a grant from the Tennessee Department of Health, we began with a community engagement process to understand where those who live and work along this segment of Dickerson Pike need to go, where they need to cross the street, and what barriers they currently face to feeling safe.

After hearing from Walk Bike Nashville’s Communications + Advocacy Director, Lindsey Ganson, the

Nashville Youth Design Team felt strongly that they wanted to get involved in this project. The Team designed a Glow in the Dark Crosswalk intervention at Dickerson Pike and Hart Lane.

While the Pedestrian Safety Action Plan is still being completed, the Nashville Youth Design Team’s intervention got a lot of press. Their crosswalk installation with painted pedestrian bulb-outs was the first and only time the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has ever allowed a tactical urbanism installation on a state road, highlighting the youth’s ability to inspire them into action. TDOT also cited this intervention as the reason Dickerson Pike will now be receiving a $30 million dollar Complete Streets implementation on the same 2-mile stretch of study area.

Project Feature Expansion Pillar

Expand park and greenway systems to be comprehensive and interconnected.

Madison is a suburb within Metro Nashville that encompasses about 40,000 residents in a number of neighborhoods. The area is highly residential with a major road running through its center. A neighborhood center that is taking shape in the surrounding area of the Nashville Public Library Madison Branch, the Fifty Forward Community Center, and the up and coming Roots Barn. These are all spaces that gather people together, but the missing resource is a well-designed, activated park.

A number of visionary publications and proposals reference the possibility of a successful public space in this area, but the Design Studio officially kicked off community engagement alongside Metro Parks and Council Member Nancy Van Reece in August of 2021. In 4 public events and additional public tabling throughout the community, we reached 376 community members to help us

envision the future park that would further center the neighborhood around Madison Station Blvd.

77% of respondents prioritized public art that establishes the park’s identity. Safe access to the park, fitness opportunities for all ages, and

native plantings were also top priorities for the park’s future design. Programming ideas included pop-up events, basketball courts, dog amenities, splash pads and more.

In February of 2022, HDLA revealed conceptual designs of the future park based on the community ideas and our initial visions. The designs are meant to help advocate for funding the park to finally fill a park deficit for this growing suburban center.

INCOME

ANNUAL SPONSORS

PRESENTING SPONSORS

PROGRAM SPONSORS

KEYSTONE SPONSORS

Cornerstone SPONSORS

AIA Middle Tennessee

Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC

CA South

DISTRICT Nashville

FABL

Greater Nashville Realtors

Greater Nashvilel Regional Council

Historic Germantown Neighborhood

I. C. Thomasson Associates, Inc.

Manuel Zeitlin Architects

Metro Parks Department

Metro Planning Department

Metro Water Services

Nashville Chamber of Commerce

Nashville Post

Nashville Department of Transportation

Nelson Mullins

NOMA Nashville

Pinnacle Financial Partners

Ragan Smith

Turner Construction

Walk Bike Nashville

WeGo Public Transit

Voussoir SPONSORS

Alliance Bernstein

American Constructors, Inc.

Anderson Design Studio

Bacon & Caviar Gourmet Catering

Barge Design Solutions, Inc.

Bell & Associates Construction

Catalyst Design Group

Chazen, A LaBella Company

Compass Development Marketing Group

Compass Partners LLC

Craig Philip & Marian Ott

Crain Construction

CSDG

Cyril Stewart LLC

DPR Construction

EOA Architects

Frothy Monkey

GHP Environmental + Architecture

H.G Hill Realty Company LLC

Hardaway Construction

Hoar Construction

Lee Company

MarketStreet Equities Co.

NES Power

Newbern Consulting Services, LLC

Pfeffer Torode Architecture

Pillars Development

Ross Bryan Associates, Inc.

Smith Gee Studio

Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.

Southeast Venture Design

Studio 8 Design :: Matt Taylor, Architect

Tifinie Capehart Consulting

Tuck-Hinton Architecture & Design

Van Pong Architect PLLC

Additional Supporters

July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023

Alliance Bernstein Design Your Neighborhood

Amazon Design Your Neighborhood

Brown Family Foundation Operations

The DISTRICT Nashville Project-based Funding

Greater Nashville Regional Council Transportation Projects Grant

Hastings Architecture

Socially Conscious Design 101

HCA Foundation Design Your Neighborhood

Historic Capitol Corridor Foundation

Project-based Funding

MARS Petcare Program-based Funding

Nashville Parks Foundation Project-based Grant

Tennessee Architectural Foundation Design Your Neighborhood

Tennessee Dept of Health via Walk Bike Nashville Project-based Funding

University of Tennessee Knoxville Project-based Funding

Vanderbilt University Project-based Funding

3M Project-based Funding

Thanks

Jefferson Ockerman

Larry Papel ++

Presidents’ Council

Tara Armistead

Linda Beall

Kelly Bonadies

Tifinie Capehart

Jennifer Carlat

Richard Courtney

Keith Covington

Rebecca Delaney

Mark + Sherry Deutschmann

Meg Epstein ++

Landon Ferrett

Tracey Ford

Gary Gaston

John Gee

Hunter Gee +

Hemalatha Gokhale +++

Nick Green

Kim Hawkins +++

Clay Haynes

Edward Henley III +

Michael Kenner

Eric Kopstain +++

Jody Lentz

Christian + Shandi Paro

Mandy Pellegrin

Craig Philip

David Powell ++

Christopher Rowe

Kim Shinn

Cyril Stewart +

Dana Terebessy

Alan Thompson

Manuel Zeitlin++

Advocates

George Anderson

David Bailey

Menié Bell

Teresa Blackburn

Chris Bowe

Timothy Boyls

Justin Cotton

Laurel Creech

Chris M. Davis

Brent Elrod

Catherine Epstein

Loretta Foster

Kara Gee

Scott Gibson

Kaila Gilbert

Erin Hafkenschiel

Tanisha Hall

Valentina Harper

Trip Hereford

Rita Hoke

L.J. Hoke

David Johnston

Mercedes Jones

Neil Krugman

Ethan Landes

Koby Langner

Clifford Lippard

Gregory Littell

Josh Martin

Mia Mathews

Ben Metz

Kate Monaghan

Judson Newbern

Brian Nock

Clay Petrey

Kayla Rodd

William Rosenthal

Eric Schultenover

Philip Shepard

Michelle Steele

Daniel Swope

Irwin Venick

Ron Yearwood

Jim Yockey

Members

Kris Ahrend

David Allard

Asia Allen

Burkley Allen

Anna Altic

Jessica Ancker

Christian Archer

Meagan Backes

Clay Bailey

Sarah Barnet

Judy Bayer Steele

Ashley Bergeron

Mark + Stephanie Bixler

Kevin Bolger

David Bordenkircher

Kathryn Branch

Edward Branding

Shanese Brown

Theresa Buffo

Michael Burriss

Ann Butterworth

Heidi Campbell

Heather Cass

Benjamin Chandler

Kelly Chieng

John Chase Cole

Jane-Coleman Cottone

Michaila Crislip

Amy Crownover

Brittany Curry

Ryan Darrow

Kaitlin Dastugue

Jessica Dauphin

Marleen Davis

Marge Davis

Brittany Earlie

Rebecca Elder

Lorraine Ensley

George Ewing

Mary Ann Forness

Veronica Foster

Tipton Fowlkes

Jeffrey Gaston

Matt Genova

Michael Gibson

Melody Gibson

Donna Glassford

Cara Greene

Karen Grubbs

Fuller Hanan

Kristin Harney

Penny Harrington

Jim Hawk

Kem Hinton

Brittany Hodge

Eric Hoke

Brent Hunter

Lynn Jolley

Charmaine Krupka

John Lavender

Charles Layne

Sara Lee Burd

Tessa Lemos

Curtis Lesh

Justin Lowe

Tammy Lynch

Lynn D Maddox

Eric Malo

Joseph Mayes

Rachel Mays

Laura McCoy

Stephanie McCullough

Daniel McDonell

Ann McGauran

Jason Miller

Meredith Montgomery

Darrell Moore

Melanie Moran

Dustin Murphy

Tara Myers

Pauline Nelson

Mick Nelson

Kelsey Oesmann

Louis Ortiz

Cornelia Overton

David Paine

Michael Payne

David Proffitt

Bill Purcell

Sylvia Rapoport

Danielle Rice

Ann Roberts

Duane Roggendorff

Richard Ruach

Tim Rucker

Phil Ryan

Megan Sargent

Diane Scher

Ty Scheske

Sam Schneider

Margaret Scott

Brooke Seraphine

Jonathan Sexton

Jules Shainberg

Fathiyah Shepard-Suso

Brad Slayden

John Wesley Smith

Jacqualyn Smith

Daniel Spann

Susan Steffenhagen

Gabrielle Storey

Danny Streit

Hannah Swanson

Matt Taylor

Harry Tenenbaum

Mike Thompson

Nancy VanReece

Mary Vavra

John Vick

Erin Vineyard

Catron Wallace

Kaitlin Ward

Pete Westerholm

John Whalen

Mustapha Williams

Megan Williamson

Kathryn Withers

Nora Yoo

Mike Young

Seth Zanoni

Hannah Marr Business Development Intern

Kayla Anderson Research Fellow

Micah James Design Intern

Katy Morgan Research Partner

Naffie Njie Communications + Marketing Intern

Dev Bhavsar Design Intern

Joey Ling Community ENgagement Intern

Allie Miller Design Intern

Hixhaz Nurja Design Fellow

Gretchen Trast Research Fellow

Cydney Thompson Youth Programs Intern

Shuangwen Yang Design Education Fellow

In the Community

CIVIC DESIGN CENTER ANNUAL REPORT 2021-2022

Clockwise from top left: Staff at sponsor reception at W Nashville; Gary receiving Young Leader of the Year Award 2022; Veronica and Eric at Tour De Nash 2022; and Melody and Gary presenting at the newly launched Memphis Design Center with AIA Memphis.

Tifinie Capehart PRESIDENT

Land Use Consultant / Urban Studies

Adjunct, TSU

Jennifer Carlat Secretary

Metropolitan Policy, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

Irwin Venick Treasurer

Dobbins Venick, Kuhn & Byassee, PLLC

Andrew Beaird

Immediate Past PRESIDENT Core Development Services

Asia Dixon Allen

Board Member

Gresham Smith

Laurel Creech

Board Member

Civic Leader

Chris Davis

Board Member

Hastings Architecture

Rebecca Delaney

Board Member

Rivian

Meg Epstein

Board Member

California South Development

July 2021 - June 2022

Valarie Franklin

Board Member

Moody Nolan / NOMAnash

Nick Green

Board Member

Design Public Group

Hemalatha (Latha) Gokhale

Board Member

Community Member

Tanisha Hall

Board Member

Fairpointe Planning, LLC

Edward Henley III

Board Member

Pillars Development

Michael Kenner

Board Member

MiKen Development

Neil Krugman

Board Member

Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis

Ben Metz

Board Member

ESa Architects

Lee O Molette II

Board Member

Frank Stanton Developers, LLC

Melanie Moran

Board Member

Vanderbilt University

Judson Newbern

Board Member

Newburn Consulting Services

Dee Patel

Board Member

The Hermitage Hotel

Philip Shepard

Board Member

HOAR Construction

Michelle Steele

Board Member

Lipscomb University

Jam Stewart

Board Member

Mars Petcare

TK Davis

Ex-Officio

University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design

Josh Martin

Board Intern

Ankura, Young Leaders Council

Mandy Pellegrin

Board Intern

Sycamore Institute, Young Leaders Council

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