Follow the TOD conversation at next week’s LOCUS Summit

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Next week, professionals in transit-oriented development will convene with developers, investors, and local leaders at the 2017 LOCUS Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. The LOCUS Summit presents a unique opportunity for diverse stakeholders to work together to create vibrant and equitable walkable communities.

Follow these important conversations on Twitter at the hashtag #LOCUSsummit on April 24-25 to learn about public-private partnerships, placemaking, and policies that lead to successful transit-oriented development.

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The LOCUS Summit will explore how to transform and lift neighborhoods by integrating public input and private capital. We’ll dive into ways to get the most out of transportation funding at the local level, and other local policy changes that can attract economic and equitable development.

For more on leveraging private-public partnerships, access Forming Partnerships to Promote Transit-Oriented Development and Joint Development in the TODresources.org archives. This guidebook by the American Public Transportation Association helps transit agencies partner with real estate developers, local governments, and community entities to build a shared vision of TOD for the community’s future.

Recent TOD news

Here’s what has been happening this week at TOD projects across the country.

  • What transit access means for low-income neighborhoods around DC (Washington Post)
  • Is more TOD on the horizon for the Baltimore? (Baltimore Magazine)
  • The long, complicated history of Houston’s Post Oak BRT and development (Houstonia Mag)
  • 5.1 acres up for redevelopment near Music City Star station in Nashville (The Tennessean)
  • New apartments begin construction along Charlotte’s Blue Line light rail (The Charlotte Observer)
  • Highway realignment in Tahoe could allow for 200 new affordable units and walkable downtown (Tahoe Daily Tribune)
  • Mission residents use Berkeley TOD displacement study to stop 117-unit project (Curbed San Francisco)