From Public Golf Course to Mixed-Income Community: Innovative Infill Development in East Las Vegas
Tue Oct 29
4:00 PM — 5:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 2, Lotus C
This session will include a robust discussion between city staff, elected officials, developers, and local and national consultants working to deliver new and innovative infill development solutions essential to the long-term success of Las Vegas. The session will include brief presentations by each of our panelists, offering a diverse perspective of the history, context, current conditions, ambitions of the project, and work across public and private sectors to make this project successful. This project is the result of intentional and extensive bilingual community engagement, creative partnerships, and a commitment to resilient development that helps some of the city's most vulnerable populations. The city of Las Vegas is leveraging its control of the 100-acre Desert Pines Golf Course in East Las Vegas to drive several community-driven goals, providing opportunities to incentivize affordable infill housing, embracing Latino culture through placemaking and design, partnering with education, and focusing on workforce training, increasing accessible park space, and developing a transit-oriented and walkable project.
Speakers
Moderator
Moderator
Principal, Urban Design Practice Co-Director SmithGroup
As leader of SmithGroup's Urban Design Team, Michael Johnson's ability to understand and distill complex urban challenges spans a wide range of markets and geographies. Michael is trained as a landscape architect and urban designer and is focused on people-centric and system-scale solutions at the intersection of equity, resilience, health, adaptive re-use and technology. He serves on the Landscape Architecture Foundation Emeritus Board, where he…
Panelist
Panelist
Owner Ericka Aviles Consulting
Ericka Aviles is the founder and CEO of Ericka Aviles Consulting LLC, a proud Latina-owned boutique consulting firm established in 2016. With a deep commitment to bridging gaps of language and culture, Ericka specializes in creating innovative communication, marketing, and outreach strategies that resonate with diverse audiences. Her work is driven by a passion for inclusivity, ensuring that her clients effectively engage with their communities…
Panelist
Panelist
McCormack Baron Salazar
Antonio has over 20 years' of project management experience with McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc., a national leader in the redevelopment of urban neighborhoods into affordable and mixed-income communities. In Los Angeles, Antonio has worked on a large-scale subdivision that was master-planned as a walkable community with a mix of housing types, retail and open space and worked on various mixed-use affordable housing TODs. Currently, Antonio…
Panelist
Panelist
Ward 3 Councilwoman City of Las Vegas
Councilwoman Olivia Díaz was born and raised in the east side of Las Vegas. She became the first Latina elected to the Las Vegas City Council in June 2019. She represents Ward 3, a dynamic district with over 109,000 residents that includes downtown Las Vegas and the neighborhoods where she grew up. She serves a diverse constituency that is over 65% Hispanic and where over…
Panelist
Panelist
City of Las Vegas
Seth Floyd is the director of community development for the city of Las Vegas. In this executive position, he oversees the city's divisions of planning, development, building & safety, business licensing and code enforcement. As the lead on a variety of initiatives and a licensed attorney, Floyd has negotiated development agreements for complex master-planned communities as well as small scale development and redevelopment. He oversees…