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ABOUT ARCADIA Arcadia's founding partners were brought together by a single purpose—to create walkable neighborhoods in harmony with nature. Inspired by great old towns like Annapolis, Santa Fe, and West Chester and great new towns like Seaside, Celebration, and Kentlands, Arcadia develops “smart” communities in cities, suburbs and rural settings.
Robert Davis, a partner at Arcadia Land Company, is the developer and co-founder of Seaside, Florida, the first and most celebrated new urban community in the United States. With over 300 homes, a vibrant town center of stores and restaurants, a range of civic facilities, a theater, inns, and a charter school, Seaside is not only wonderful place to live and visit but it is also considered the most successful example of neo-traditional town planning today. Seaside’s success has inspired communities around the world and helped launch the movement now known as the new urbanism. Mr. Davis is a graduate of Antioch College and Harvard Business School and was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He is an experienced developer who has won industry recognition for projects such as Apogee, a townhouse community in Coconut Grove, Miami. Please visit www.SeasideFL.com to learn more about Mr. Davis and the Seaside Community. W. Joseph Duckworth is the President of the Arcadia Land Company, a leading Smart Growth Developer. Arcadia is creating new urbanist and conservation development communities in New Mexico, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Duckworth is also President of Bryn Eyre, Inc. the general partner of Bryn Eyre, LP, which has purchased 3000 acres in Morgantown, PA to create a new town which is planned to include 12000 homes and 5 Million square feet of commercial development. Bryn Eyre and Arcadia’s Sadsbury Park community, a new urbanist village expansion in Chester County have both won recognition from the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance. Mr. Duckworth was named NATIONAL BUILDER OF THE YEAR for 1992 by Professional Builder magazine.
Mr. Duckworth was a member of the Chester County Planning Commission from 1992 to 2002 and served as its Chair for the most recent three years of his term. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Natural Lands Trust, 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, the Franklin Institute, and The National Constitution Center (NCC). He serves on the Board of Overseers for the Penn Design, the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. He is the former Chair of the Residential Council of the Urban Land Institute (Blue Flight).
Mr. Duckworth has served as a faculty member of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design. He is a contributing author to Land Use in America, published in 1996. He has lectured professionally on development issues at the Wharton School and on urban design and planning at the Penn Design and at Temple University. Professionally, he has spoken at meetings of the Urban Land Institute, the National Association of Home Builders and at national Smart Growth Conferences.
Mr. Duckworth is a member of the World Presidents’ Organization (WPO) and the Chief Executives’ Organization (CEO). He was the founding International Chairman of the Wharton Presidents’ Seminar for YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization). He is an Advisory Board member of Robertson Brothers, a community developer in Michigan. In 1993, he was named as Philadelphia Business Journal’s “Entrepreneur of the Year in Real Estate.”
Mr. Duckworth is the former President and CEO of Realen Homes, a prominent builder of residential communities. Under his stewardship, Realen grew to $100 million per year and expanded from its Philadelphia base into the Chicago market. He was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Toll Brothers. He has a BS degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Joe and his wife, Loretta, have four grown children and reside in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Christopher B. Leinberger is a land use strategist, teacher, researcher, consultant, developer and author. Mr. Leinberger has three current professional responsibilities. He is a founding partner of Arcadia Land Company. Arcadia has or has had projects in Independence (Missouri), Chester County (Pennsylvania), Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) and downtown Albuquerque (New Mexico). He is also a Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where he is focused on downtown and suburban town center development, strategic planning and management. Finally, Mr. Leinberger is a Professor of Practice and Director of the Graduate Real Estate Program at the University of Michigan. A joint venture of the business, law and architecture/urban planning graduate schools, the program focuses on “progressive” real estate; downtown and suburban town center revitalization, transit-oriented development, new urbanism, conservation development, etc. He is writing a book with the working title of On Growth; The Next American Dreams, to be jointly published by Island Press and Brookings Press.For 20 years, Mr. Leinberger was co-owner and Managing Director of Robert Charles Lesser & Co., the country's largest independent real estate advisory firm. His consulting work focused on corporate strategic planning for real estate companies, metropolitan development trends and strategic planning for downtowns. He has been on numerous publicly traded and privately owned corporate boards of directors, including AvalonBay Communities, traded on the NYSE and one of the most highly valued rental apartment REITs in the country. As an award-winning author, Leinberger has contributed chapters to and written a number of books, such as Strategic Planning for Real Estate Companies, Sustainable Development, Urban Parks and Open Space and The Transformation of Suburban Business Districts, all published by the Urban Land Institute. He has written numerous articles for national magazines, trade journals and academic journals regarding land use and real estate issues, including The Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Urban Land, Brookings Review, among others. His articles have been awarded the Apgar Award for the best pieces in Urban Land magazine in 1995 and 2003, as well as other national awards. In addition, he and his work have been profiled by CNN, National Public Radio (Morning Edition, Prime Time, Smart City), The Today Show, Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico Business Weekly, Architectural Record, Shopping Centers Today, among others. Leinberger was Co-chair of the New Mexico Governor Richardson's Task Force on Our Communities and Our Future and served on the Planned Growth Strategy Implementation Task Force and the Impact Fee Task Force in Albuquerque. He also serves on the advisory boards of The Conservation Fund and the Enterprise Foundation. Mr. Leinberger received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College, where he majored in Political Science and Sociology. He received an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Leinberger and his wife, Lisa, live in the DuPont Circle/Kalorama area of Washington, DC, within walking distance of Brookings, Metro, his publishers and his wife work at The Phillips Collection. |
