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- Ed Shriver Participates in New Orleans Roundtable
PITTSBURGH, PA – Invited to participate in the AIA Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC) Spring Roundtable, Edward A. Shriver, Jr., AIA spent May 12-14, 2006 in New Orleans talking with local and state leaders working on the recovery and rebuilding efforts along the Gulf Coast. The roundtable included meetings and work sessions with prominent state and city elected officials, educators, local architects, and other leaders; an area tour; and roundtable discussions on next steps the RUDC and AIA should take to support recovery and rebuilding. Edward A. Shriver, Jr., AIA, is the founder and 2006 chair of the new American Institute of Architects (AIA) Retail and Entertainment Committee (REC). This national knowledge community was formed to foster the creation, discussion and dissemination of knowledge about the retail and entertainment environments among practioners, developers, retailers and the general public regarding how the quality of retail environments directly impacts the quality of life in a community. The advisory board is made up of members from Strada, The Walt Disney Company, Economic Research Associates, Gensler, and RTKL. Membership will be open to current members of the AIA nationally. Ed Shriver has over twenty years of retail and corporate project experience ranging from the remodel of the Galleria Mall to the recent work on the North Shore for Continental Real Estate Companies and downtown retail planning projects such as the Fifth Avenue & Market Square plan for various developers. He is currently leading the transformation of the former Lazarus department store into the new Piatt Place, a mixed-use development; Del Monte Foods Pittsburgh office on the North Shore; and The Crossroads, a revitalization plan for downtown Washington, PA. Strada, an architecture, interior design, landscape, and urban design firm, is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Strada embraces projects that create places for people including academic buildings, master plans, mixed-use urban developments, corporate offices, and retail spaces. Contact: Kathryn Petrie | marketing@stradallc.com
Contact: marketing@stradallc.com