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Urban Land Institute meets in Columbia
Master of ceremonies was John Knott of The Noisette Company, the developers of the conversion of the Charleston Naval Yard. Paige King, executive director of ULI South Carolina, helped Knott keep the schedule. Knott is the ULI South Carolina district council chair. The Midlands chair is Leighton Lord III of the law firm Nexsen Pruet. Other Midlands' representatives in ULI South Carolina are Lee Mashburn of Mashburn Construction, membership chair; Ron Anderson of NAI Avant, program chair; Mary Beth Branham of LS3P Associates LTD., sponsorship chair; Dale Stigamier of the Miller-Valentine Group, young leaders group vice- chair. Dean Schwanke, ULI senior vice president for publications and awards, reviewed Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the 29th annual edition authored by ULI and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Emerging Trends is the mosthighly regarded and widely read forecast report in the real estate industry.
Columbia's Pat Mason, Center for Carolina Living, explained and illustrated S.C. in- migration industry trends. Mason's firm publishes Carolina Living magazine. After a networking lunch, Knott presented "The State of South Carolina" as he apologized for the delay in the arrival of the keynote speaker, Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest. Before anyone in the room knew Hawken would be late, there was heated and noisy discussion about the incredible infrastructure catch- up brought to bear in the United States. The country needs a complete infrastructure overhaul: roads, bridges, rails, subways, water distribution, sewers, everything to the tune of $1.6 trillion, according to John Knott. No. 1 in the audience's upgrade wish list was transportation.
Hawken arrived about an hour late. He filled his 45 minutes with warnings coming from global warming and the world's growing response, what he called the largest movement in the world and wondered why no one saw it coming.
Hawken has appeared on numerous television programs, including the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, and Charlie Rose. He has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles in theWall Street Journal, Newsweek,Washington Post, BusinessWeek, Esquire, Us News and World Report, and other publications. He is author of seven books, including The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster), and The Ecology of Commerce (Harper-Collins 1993). The Ecology of Commerce was voted in 1998 as the No. 1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. Hawken's presence was co-sponsored by the South Carolina Chapter of the United States Green Building Council.
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