Why You Should Attend

Developer/Builder

Given the numbers of states and localities that are implementing or contemplating new smart growth policies, there are obvious reasons to attend the conference. However, this conference goes beyond the standard musings over smart growth and helps developers understand how to shape their business using new strategies. The strength of this conference comes from the variety of participants and speakers who cross disciplines to share experiences and insights, and valuable tools and strategies to “get it done.” We attract the best speakers and the most experienced smart growth practitioners to address topics that are of particular interest to developers. Come hear sessions about:

  • The economic and environmental benefits of smart growth and good urbanism
  • Financing and promoting the development of smart growth projects
  • Collaborating with non-traditional partners to develop successful projects
  • Transit oriented development and development oriented transit
  • State and local policies that tackle the barriers to smart growth
  • Sustainable investment strategies to help ensure that projects provide economic, social and environmental benefits
  • Development patterns that complement transportation
  • Revitalizing legacy cities, the suburbs and vacant properties
  • Redeveloping historic properties
  • Incorporating green building and energy efficient practices into your work
  • Infill development strategies for small cities
  • The perception and reality of mixed use development
  • Putting parking in its place for smart growth
  • Public–private partnerships to leverage resources

The New Partners Conference is a great conference! It offers strong programming for building great communities. The diversity of attendees makes for very interesting dialogs and has provided connections that are unavailable at any other event. For those taking a holistic and systems-oriented approach to building great livable communities, this is an extraordinary conference.

—Randall Lewis, Executive Vice President,
Director of Marketing, Lewis Operating Corp.


The New Partners for Smart Growth conference has become more and more solution-oriented in it focus, and by attracting an increasingly diverse audience of participants from both the public and private sectors, it offers a rare forum for having frank and productive discussions about how to work better together.

—Debbie Bassert, Assistant Staff VP, Land Use Policy, NAHB