For decades, real-estate developers have had an outsized effect on the trajectory of growth in Philadelphia. And now a new generation of visionaries, deal-makers and builders are following suit, driven by the merging of social impact and bottom-line imperatives.
The Philadelphia Citizen’s Development … For Good is a year-long speaker series that smartly delves into the economic and cultural difference that enlightened and intentional real estate development can make in our city.
Watch video from past Development … For Good events
Development … For Good speakers
David Adelman
Campus Apartments
CEO
Connor Barwin
Make the World Better
Founder & President
Bart Blatstein
Tower Investments, Inc.
Founder and CEO
Dr. Leon D. Caldwell
Ujima Developers, LLC
Founder
John Fry
Drexel University
President
Craig Grossman
Arts + Crafts Holdings
General Partner
Prema Katari Gupta
Center City District
Vice President for Parks and Public Realm
Nora Lichtash
Women’s Community Revitalization Project
Executive Director
Brian Murray
Shift Capital
Principal and Founder
Matt Pestronk
Post Brothers
President
Inga Saffron
Inquirer
Architecture Critic
Lindsay Scannapieco
Scout
Managing Partner
Jasmine Sessoms
HRP
Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs| Philadelphia
Tayyib Smith
Smith & Roller
Co-founder
Gerard H. Sweeney
Brandywine Realty Trust
President, CEO and Trustee
Ken Weinstein
Philly Office Retail
President
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