Reimagining Cities, Rediscovering Their Roots: Richard Martz at TEDxHECMontreal

Richard Martz is Vice-President of Live Work Learn Play (LWLP), an international real estate advisory and development firm dedicated to creating and redeveloping iconic, large-scale, mixed-use real estate projects and neighborhoods. A graduate of McGill University's Faculty of Law, Richard practiced real estate and corporate law and consulted for a non-profit community organization prior to joining LWLP. His legal background, combined with experience in community planning and cultural arts programming, lends both a practical and creative perspective and approach to his work. Richard has led LWLP's commercial mixed-use strategy and development planning efforts for several U.S. state universities, helping these institutions enhance their campus life and integrate their student experience into the fabric of their towns and cities. Richard has worked extensively in the northeast, southeast and midwest on large-scale master planned communities, urban revitalizations, and resorts. He led the town center planning effort for the redevelopment of the 700-acre Mueller Airport in Austin, Texas and has led the planning and development efforts on some of the largest urban redevelopment projects in the country, including the $300 million Rowan Boulevard project in Glassboro, New Jersey and the Marina District Redevelopment in Riviera Beach, Florida. He interfaces regularly with public and private stakeholders, and has significant experience leading public outreach initiatives to engage communities in the planning process. An avid traveler and a lover of the arts, Richard is also an amateur musician and theatre actor.

Richard Martz est Vice-président chez Live Work Learn Play (LWLP), une entreprise de développement immobilierqui se consacre à la création de projets iconiques à grande échelle. Diplômé de la faculté de droit de McGill, Richard Martz a travaillé dans l'immobilier, le droit des sociétés et a été consultant pour une organisation communautaire à but non lucratif avant de rejoindre LWLP. Sa formation juridique, combinée à une expérience dans la planification communautaire et la programmation d'arts culturels, lui permet d'aborder son travail dune perspective à la fois pratique et créative. Richard Martz a travaillé sur le projet de grands espaces communautaires, de revitalisations urbaines, et de grands complexes hôteliers.

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