Jessica quickly downloads all the sessions and takeaways from the Baltimore ULI Housing Opportunity Conference in March.  Hear about great ideas, tools, upcoming housing opportunities, and what we can take from the past.

Carolyn Oberholzer of Bergin, Frakes, Smalley & Oberholtzer and Lindsay Schube of Gammage and Burnham join the podcast to talk about what it's like to be a zoning attorney and what even is a zoning attorney.  Learn what makes land attorneys so cool and why they need to be so different from what you may think an attorney is. Listen in as we hear about all their crazy stories as these two friends join us for a fun time, which will need to be revisited for sure!

 Tempe Mayor Corey Woods and City of Phoenix Planning Director Josh Bednarek join the Upfront Planning podcast to talk about the big housing issue and what needs to be done locally, at the state and federal level to get housing opportunities and costs for everyone back on track.  Discussion goes further into why there is so much opposition to housing and what is at the heart of the matter.

ULI Arizona Trends Day 2026 recap with Angie Grendahl, MRED. 
Hear about the sessions, the take aways and what it was like working on the team to put this huge one day event together gathering over 1,100 professionals from around AZ and the country. Hear about the economic forecast with breaking news, they keynote, the debate and all the interesting sessions for future trends you might not know about. Listen in where ever you listen to podcasts.

Santiago Fajardo discusses some of the ins and outs of buying properties and investments internationally.  Hear how deals get cash deals done and the crazy stories that go with buying international.

Maggie Soffel from Arizona State University and Enrique Bojorquez-Gaxiola from the City of Phoenix continue to discuss Rio Reimagined in greater detail, following the recent report that the City of Phoenix has been working to make it a reality.

Maggie Soffel from Arizona State University talks about Rio Reimagined.  A multi-jurisdictional river project spanning 55 miles along the Rio Salado and Gila Rivers in Arizona, traversing 6 cities and 2 Native American communities.  Hear the background of how this project came to be back in 1966, the push for it by former Senator John McCain, and why it was reignited in 2018.  Hear what this project means for Arizona and how they plan to bring the river back to its glory after being ignored for so long.

Tom Bilsten tells us the importance of being agile and faster than a dog with some amusing stories in public outreach.  Tom is a well respected community outreach expert and a lifelong community builder who sat with us to tell all the crazy stories of how he gets his job done so well and how he approaches obstacles in his job.  He has some unbelievable stories with dogs at large, ungodly heat, mosquitos, guns and also wonderful people which make his job amazing.

Jackie Guthrie, AICP,  one of the first professional planners Jessica met in her career reminisces about the fun and crazy projects she worked on over the long career as a land planner working on private sector projects large and small as well as who she hired and worked with as a young planner herself.  Hear all the crazy stories of projects you may not normally hear about and how she almost because a "missing planner".

Culdesac is an innovative carless community in Tempe, AZ.  Tempe Development Director Ryan Levesque, AICP talks about how it came to be and what the City needed to do to make it a reality for the entitlements and thinking differently about their site planning and design requirements.   Hear what he says the project made them look into their code again and see what really is needed.