Business & Labor
Reed Kroloff Appointed to New Orleans' Rebuilding Commission
(archrecord.construction.com - 11/08/2005)
By Andrea
Oppenheimer Dean
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has appointed
Reed Kroloff, dean at Tulane University's School of Architecture,
to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission. As conceived, the
commission will resolve conflicting visions of reconstruction
and will, therefore, play a key role in deciding such basic
questions as how best to spend federal relief dollars, restart
a crippled economy, and rebuild neighborhoods. Among the 17
commissioners, there are a few religious and cultural figures—including
musician Winton Marsalis—but most commissioners represent
business interests.
Kroloff is co-chairing the urban design
subcommittee, with local architect Ray Manning, AIA, under
commissioner Joseph Canizaro, a local real estate mogul who
has developed more than $1 billion in projects. Kroloff says
his subcommittee is “still getting up and running.”
He adds, “Because we want to make sure we’re being
very careful about how we go about this, our first step is
to secure advice from nationally renowned professionals.”
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