7th Annual Land Bank Conference

Event Date: October 14-16, 2012

Category: Community Progress Event

The Center for Community Progress is soliciting proposals for the 2012 Land Bank Conference

If America’s cities and towns are to realize their greatest potential as attractive and welcoming – as drivers of the new American economy – they must be able to repurpose their vacant, abandoned, and foreclosed properties. A critical approach to this mission is the development of land banks: public authorities created to efficiently acquire, hold, manage and develop tax foreclosed property.

Whether you hail from an urban land bank, rural county government, a for-profit developer or anywhere in between, we invite you to present your successes, ideas, and expertise at the 2012 Land Bank Conference. We take pride in our strong educational content and the variety of sessions that we offer. We are looking for beginning, intermediate, and advanced proposals to accommodate each education level, targeted toward daily operations or overlying strategies of land banking.

The annual Land Bank conference attracts professionals involved with land banks such as: land bank staff and board of directors, for-profit and nonprofit developers, community foundations, real estate, greening initiatives, neighborhood revitalization, staff members from local and state government and elected officials.

Categories

• Activating Leadership and Forming Strategic Alliances

• Creating Effective Processes

• Organizational Development

• Reusing Land Sustainably

Suggested Topics

• Building coalitions; public–private partnerships; engaging the business community; citizen engagement; intergovernmental collaboration

• Land banking policy; tax foreclosure policy; property information tracking; coordinating public services

• Leveraging resources and financial stability; strategic planning; federal and state resources; marketing and communications

• Rethinking place; environmental impacts; historic preservation; urban agriculture; code enforcement; green infrastructure

Key Dates

• Submissions due | April 13, 2012

• Acceptance notification | June 15, 2012

• Schedule notification | Aug. 15, 2012

• Presentations due | Oct. 5, 2012

• Conference | Oct. 14-16 2012

Click here to submit your proposal

We look forward to seeing you in Kalamazoo, MI on October 14-16. Watch here and in your e-mail boxes for upcoming information.