Sustainable Success Stories

In 2011, MARC honored seven sustainable success stories as examples of great projects, policies or practices in sustainability in the Kansas City region. Project honorees were selected through a competitive Call for Successful Sustainable Projects.

Sustainable Success Stories is part of an ongoing community dialogue focused on building a better understanding of sustainable practices that have the potential to transform our community into “America’s Green Region.” By sharing local successes and challenges, we can enable community partners to learn about and replicate locally tailored, high-impact sustainability practices. Additional Information»

For Planning Commissioners and Planning Professionals

Ongoing

Join us for a series of American Planning Association audio conferences on topics of interest to area planning commissioners and planning professionals.

Participants will be able to submit questions to the speakers, via e-mail or fax, both in advance of and during the sessions.

Although some audio conferences are targeted to either commissioners or planners, both are welcome at all sessions. There is no charge for the audio conferences; however, registration is required. Additional Information»

Rethinking the
Strip Mall

June 5, 2012

The underperforming strip mall can be an eyesore. For public administrators, developers, community planners, and citizens, this mainstay of 20th century suburban America may no longer represent the community at large.

This workshop will present current thinking about reinterpreting underperforming strip malls. The projects presented here represent a broad array of public, private and cultural entities taking up the issue of what to do with these all too common pieces of the American suburban landscape. Additional Information»