What are the ingredients to create complete communities when lands are unlocked by transit lines? What are the key infrastructure decisions and priorities that lead to economically and socially sustainable communities? How to integrate land use, complete communities, and value capture into transit and sustainable mobility decisions? What are the best ways to form partnerships to provide seamless mobility?

Join ULI Curtis Infrastructure Initiative and global leaders in infrastructure and communities to explore innovative ways to deliver holistic infrastructure to create transit-oriented complete communities.

The session features complete communities from Toronto Region, Canada and Hong Kong, SAR.

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Host and Moderator:

Yvonne Yeung, ULI Curtis Infrastructure Fellow, Urban Land Institute and Principal, Practice Lead for Planning Sustainable Cities and Communities, Urban Solutions, Hatch

Stephen Engblom, Faculty of Real Estate Development and Design, Resilience and Equity, University of California, Berkely

Speakers:

Michael Sutherland, Director, Urban Solutions, Hatch

David Yam, General Manager of Business Development, MTR Corporation Limited

About Hatch Urban Solutions

Our purpose is to build Complete Communities with Complete Infrastructure. Making the shift from expensive, socially inequitable, auto-dependence decisions to climate-friendly, economically and socially sustainable “Urban Solutions” – a planning, economics, urban design, and transportation strategy practice that works with the public sector, private sector, and the not-for-profits to develop better solutions for physical infrastructure that interfaces with people. Working with clients and partners with the ambition to achieve more, faster – scaling up positive impact we can have on people, their communities, and our planet.

About MTR Corporation

Our purpose is to Keep Cities Moving. Through our transportation network and property investments, we enable cities and their people to move forward and move progress. And through the fulfillment of our purpose, we create long term sustainable value for all of our stakeholders – our customers, our employees, our supply chain and the community.

About ULI Curtis Infrastructure’s Infrastructure Exchange Series

The Infrastructure Exchange is a regularly scheduled global forum to promote cutting-edge, forward-looking infrastructure solutions that are equitable, resilient and enhance long-term community value.  Facilitated by Yvonne Yeung, ULI Curtis Infrastructure Fellow, the forum sparks innovative leadership, shares game-changing research and key funding opportunities, and acts as a feedback loop to spotlight trendsetting solutions that transformed communities worldwide. Leveraging on the recent holistic government infrastructure investments in the Americas, the March to July programs will explore how industry leaders can make better decisions to create co-benefits through integrated-infrastructure delivery at a community scale, covering environmental, community, energy and mobility infrastructure to create walkable, transit-oriented, complete, 15-Minute Communities.

If you have questions about the ULI InfraXchange or FY’23 Curtis Infrastructure Program, please reach out to Yvonne Yeung, ULI Curtis Infrastructure Fellow at [email protected] or 647-466-1176.  To get involved, join us at https: www.uli.org/infrastructure.

Speaker Biographies

Michael Sutherland leads Urban Solutions for Hatch in Canada, bringing together economics, planning strategy, urban design, transportation and engineering for real estate and infrastructure owners and developers, public and private.  Michael works and collaborates all over the world. Hatch’s Urban Solutions practice includes airport and port area planning and masterplanning, and is a leader in initiating and delivering Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects. Based in Toronto, Michael has made major contributions to the development of projects in the Toronto Area such as GO Regional Express Rail, subways, light rail projects, and foundational major urban development projects like CIBC Square, East Harbour and Christie Cookie redevelopment.  Michael led the development of the business case framework now used by Ontario, Metrolinx and governments across Canada for decision-making. Michael is a recognized expert in cities, transport hubs and transportation, infrastructure economics and funding and land use. Michael holds degrees in Civil Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario; Cities from London School of Economics, London, UK; and Law from University of Toronto.

David Yam started his career in rail business as a planner. He is proficient in railway planning and operations, project management and commercials. In his early years David involved in feasibility study to multiple rail projects across Asia. Since 2008 he has been leading business transactions for MTR Corporation Ltd (“the Company”) in SE Asia, Australia, India, and Middle East. In 2014, David led a consortium to win the first overseas investment project valued AUD3.7B dollars for the Company. David has been appointed as a corporate representative in several joint ventures overseeing the execution of the Company’s investment projects overseas. He is also a director of some of the subsidiaries of the Company. David holds a Bachelor degree (Hons) in Business Administration from University of Bolton, UK and a Master degree from the Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Yvonne Yeung is the Principal, Practice Lead for Planning Sustainable Cities and Communities at Hatch Urban Solutions. She is a professional planner, urban designer, landscape architect, LEED Accredited Professional, and project management professional. She has over 23 years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors delivering award-winning transit-oriented communities worldwide. Specialized in team building, executive strategy, large-scale transformation and cross-sector implementation, Yvonne is the recipient of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management MBA Award, the American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award, and numerous other industry planning and design awards. Appointed as the Urban Land Institute’s Curtis Infrastructure Fellow, Vice-chair of the ULI SDRC Product Council, member of ULI Infrastructure Forum Leadership, ULI Toronto Advisory Board and ULI WLI Women’s Leadership Initiative Champions, Yvonne founded the “ULI Gettring to Transit Oriented Communities Initiative” and authored the “ULI 15-Minute Communities: A Leadership Guide” – a practical tool to inform how cities can better position infrastructure investment to deliver healthy, equitable, 15-min walkable complete communities through synergistic collaboration as a blueprint. Yvonne holds a Master of Business Administration, Executive, from the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.

Stephen Engblom is an architect, urbanist, and real estate development expert with over 20 years of experience. He has worked on projects across the globe and a wide range of place types. Stephen most recently worked at CBRE, the world’s premier provider of integrated real estate and advisory services, where as Senior Managing Director and thought leader, he launched the firm’s Infrastructure and Public Enterprise practice. Prior to CBRE, Stephen worked for 20 years at AECOM where he grew from an urban design practitioner to a global executive vice president responsible for conceiving of and developing AECOM Cities, an integrated practice that focused on primary urban markets around the world. By working with clients to reframe their most intractable challenges, AECOM under Stephen’s leadership was able to develop integrated urban solutions that spanned planning, design, infrastructure engineering, and program and construction management. Over the course of 7 years, the Cities practice consistently surpassed its short-term and long-term goals. Stephen is a faculty member at the University of California Berkeley, a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) board member, and is active in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) as a volunteer leader, panelist, and member. He contributes thought leadership to industry journals and lectures and teaches at universities and institutes worldwide. He serves on the Rice University School of Architecture Advisory Board. In 2022, Stephen was nominated as a member of the Lambda Alpha International: Society for the Advancement of Land Economics.