Understanding Suburban Markets Key, Say ULI Philadelphia Panelists

Panelists at the Philadelphia Urban Land Institute panel March 1, 2016 on reimagining suburban developments. From left to right: Leigh Gallagher (Moderator), Assistant Managing Editor, Fortune; host of Fortune Live; and author of The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving, Michael Markman, President, BET Investments,Eli Kahn, Principal, E. Kahn Development Corp., James Mazzarelli, Senior VP, Liberty Property Trust, Terry Woodman, Principal at Special Projects Consulting and Manager of East Whiteland Township

PHILADELPHIA—Understanding suburban residents is critical to producing reimagined and redeveloped communities outside the urban core, say panelists at the Urban Land Institute Philadelphia District’s “Contagious Urbanization: How the Suburbs are Embracing Mixed-Use and Density,” held today at the Union League Club.

About 300 attendees were at the program, which offered a regional panel moderated by Fortune Live host and author Leigh Gallagher, a Media, PA native who led a discussion among developers about how they plan and build for the new urbanized Philadelphia suburbs.