We need good public transit now more than ever. But even with unprecedented public investment, our transit system does not serve our society’s needs. How can private development help?

• How does a well-conceived and carefully planned development benefit from the public investment in transit infrastructure? How can projects be optimized to take advantage of our future Los Angeles, one that is multi-model and fully transit oriented? How can development projects support, facilitate and help to accelerate this more functional, more efficient future?
• Are expensive parking structures, even those that are subterranean becoming outmoded? Can parking structures actually be designed to be efficiently convertible to other uses?
• With the experts who are planning and building them, we will discuss several of the major transit-oriented projects being built on the westside and in downtown Los Angeles, some of them headquarters for the largest and most vital corporations in the world. These projects are generating new paradigms, innovative partnerships between the private sector and government, with strategic planning around transit that will benefit both the corporations, their workforce, and the communities that surround them.

In this ULI-LA Mobility Committee program, three global and regional major developers, a leading Los Angeles Urban Designer and a Culver City Planning Commissioner will weigh in on these questions. Each developer is currently working on key transit-oriented projects across Los Angeles and will discuss their experiences on the front lines of this mobile and vibrant future. Thomas Aujero Small, the Former Culver City Mayor, will moderate.