YLG Forums
YLG Forums (application) are small groups of young professionals who meet throughout the year to share their professional experiences in the land use and real estate/development field. Through a YLG Forum, young leaders can engage one another on a range of management, technical, and professional development questions or issues. Each YLG Forum, composed of approximately 8-12 young professionals from different niches of the real estate and planning field, will meet throughout the year to discuss professional development topics such as effective communication, meeting facilitation, work/life balance, etc.
The 2010-2011 YLG Forums will meet once a month from October 2010 through May 2011, with a break for December 2010. Please note that YLG Forums are open only to ULI Members. You and your Facilitator will decide what it is you want out of YLG Forums and how you want to get it--each group will work with its Facilitator to tailor the remainder of the meetings to the group’s wants and needs.
Benefits of Participating in a YLG Forum
The forum is a confidential, trusting environment that provides the following benefits:
· Exploration of business and personal issues
· Integration of business and personal interests
· Business and personal networking
· Development of people skills
· Personal and professional growth
· Support
How to Qualify for a YLG Forum
Participants must meet the following criteria:
· Be a member of ULI
· Be under the age of 35
· Commit to attend each monthly group meeting from October 2010 to May 2011(excluding December) with 100 percent attendance expected.
To accommodate the participants’ schedules, we plan to have at least one group meet in the morning and one during the evenings.
Submit your completed application by Wednesday, September 15, 2010 to YLG Forums Co-Chair Luke McNeel-Caird via e-mail (lmcneel-caird@woodrodgers.com) or via fax at (916) 341-7767.
2010-2011 YLG Forum Facilitators
Jack Ridgeway - Vanir Construction Management
Mr. Ridgeway has 39 years experience as a project executive and senior project manager of construction projects. He continues to be responsible for programming, planning, and construction services working from the corporate offices of Vanir Construction Management, Inc., in Sacramento. Mr. Ridgeway is a Certified Construction Manager. His professional management services include selection of professional consultants, pre-design and design phases of program and project management, development of program and project budgets, construction delivery strategies, planning and procurement of fixtures, furnishings and equipment, and startup/commissioning of completed facilities. He has experience with the development of office buildings, hotels and conference centers, schools and community centers, hospitals, airports, television broadcast studios, semiconductor chip manufacturing plants, prisons, and public and private infrastructure systems.
Tim Denham - Wood Rodgers
Mr. Denham has over 25 years experience in urban design and land planning. He is an expert at master planning for large-scale mixed-use projects; preparing community plans; site planning for residential, commercial, and industrial uses; conceptual grading design; golf course routing; conceptual landscape design and project theming; and preparation of tentative subdivision maps. His early career experience with architecture firms provides him with a unique understanding of various residential and commercial product types and their specific requirements, which is essential to developing plans that will be realistic and economically viable. His creative talents are balanced by an excellent understanding of the engineering and infrastructure issues, resulting in plans that capitalize on the unique features of a site and are exciting, but are also practical and cost effective. He intuitively balances the economic, political and market factors. He is a leader in his field, and his work has received recognition including several PCBC Gold Nugget and American Planning Association awards.
Julie Young - Valley Commercial Contractors
Ms. Young’s affiliation with Valley Commercial Contractors began in 1987. She served as the Operations Manager when the northern California Region was opened in 1991. Since then, Julie has worked in a variety of project development roles including, entitlement, program review, schematic review, design development, construction management, project management and has served on transition teams, bringing assets to operations. She is trained to seek out added value opportunities in both programming and value engineering. With an eye on efficiency, Julie leads Valley’s northern California Region, manages their resources and assigns the team to each project, insuring the needs of the client are met and the highest and best result is achieved for each project. Ms. Young is also the Founding Member of both the Sacramento Alley Activation project and Sacramento Almond Festival.
Jeff Townsend - Jacobs Engineering
Mr. Townsend has extensive experience in landscape architecture, land planning, and urban design projects with a variety of public and private sector projects throughout the United States. He complements his design creativity with site-sensitive planning techniques to compose unique solutions to complex project programs. Mr. Townsend is the Director of Planning and Landscape Architecture at Jacobs Sacramento office. He is involved with multiple aspects of project development, including programming, public outreach, design development, project management, construction documentation, phasing and construction administration. He has worked with various local and state agencies processing discretionary entitlements for land use, CEQA requirements, zoning, variances, tentative subdivision maps, planning permits, and others.
