04-21-23 Barb Frommell: Building equitable, sustainable communities

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In her presentation to the Colloquium, Barb Frommell (MUP 2002) will discuss critical lessons from her 20-year (so far!) career about how to build equitable and sustainable communities. She’ll start with her experience as a new graduate leading a U.S. Coast Guard team to ensure that service members could find an affordable place to live in the San Francisco Bay Area’s always-tight housing market. Then, she’ll recount lessons from three large, complicated projects on the Front Range in Colorado. Working for the City and County of Denver, she and her team coordinated with nonprofits, other government agencies, and community organizations to create the award-winning Decatur-Federal Station Area Plan (2013), which aims to transform the Sun Valley neighborhood—one of the most distressed communities in Colorado—into equitable transit oriented development. Thanks to her work on the National Western Center District Energy project, also in Denver, this 250-acre infill redevelopment area built on the site of the Denver Union Stock Yard will generate 90% of its heating and cooling from low carbon thermal energy from a sewer pipeline running through the site rather than burning fossil fuels. In the latest phase of her career, Barb helps obtain zoning approvals and entitlements for multi-family projects throughout the United States. She will touch on a few examples and how NIMBYism and the overall fear of multifamily development is contributing toward our nation’s housing crisis.

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04-21-23 Barb Frommell: Building equitable, sustainable communities

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