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Selected Speakers
Chet Orloff is director of the Pamplin Institute and Museum, an adjunct professor of Urban
Studies and Planning at Portland State University, director-emeritus of the Oregon Historical Society, and founding president of the Museum of the City in Portland, Oregon. He practices history with numerous public and private agencies and firms throughout the Pacific Northwest and helped initiate the nation's Lewis and Clark Bicentennial efforts. In addition to his professional work, Chet serves on numerous local, state, and national committees and commissions relating to history, planning, and urban design. |
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 Sharlene Celaya
Sharlene Celaya has been a Main Street Director since 1987 and has worked in Thomasville, Georgia (named a "Great American Main Street" city in 1998), for the past 15 years. Sharlene was in the first class of eleven to graduate from the National Main Street Center's Certification Institute, and she has served on numerous resource teams across the nation for the National Main Street Center. Sharlene was president of the Georgia Downtown Association for two years, has been named a Top 40 Georgian by Georgia Business Magazine, and was Thomasville's Woman of the Year in 2004.
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Scott Day started Urban Development Services in March 2005, after gaining 17 years of
experience at the National Main Street Center. Urban Development Services, which specializes in design
management and retail economics for commercial revitalization, seeks to develop approaches that are market-driven
and to encourage pedestrian-oriented development. Scott has developed a merchandising workshop for small retailers,
and he regularly conducts training sessions on urban planning issues, architectural restoration, sales leakage
analysis, and business recruitment and retention. Scott has a Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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 Marjorie Ferrer
Marjorie Ferrer is the Downtown Coordinator for the Delray Beach Joint Venture, a collaboration between the Community Redevelopment Agency, the Downtown Development Authority, the Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Delray Beach. The Joint Venture is the focal point for regular special events and promotion updates in Delray Beach. Marjorie has held this position since 1993, when the Joint Venture was formed. Prior to that time, she held the positions of Assistant Managing Director of the Miami Seaquarium and buyer for the Jordan Marsh group of department stores in Florida.
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N. David Milder is the president of DANTH, Inc., a consulting firm based in Kew Gardens,
New York, that specializes in the revitalization of downtown and neighborhood commercial districts. DANTH's
clients have included the City of Charlotte, various municipal agencies in New York City, the National Institute of
Justice, and countless downtown organizations in New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and other parts of the
nation. David was also the vice president for marketing for ManData Corp. At the Ohio Department of Economic and
Community Development, he designed the Ohio Housing Needs Plan and created and managed the Ohio Cities
Consortium, a 16-city public management technology transfer network funded by the National Science
Foundation. He then went on to direct the Urban Institute at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, where he created a downtown revitalization technical assistance program. He holds a PhD in
Government from Cornell University and taught at Cornell and the Ohio State University.
***David's new book, Downtown Business Recruitment, can be downloaded at no cost at www.danth.com. He will be available during the Annual Conference to sign conferees' copies of the book. |
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 Edward J. "Tim" Seibert, FAIA
Edward J. "Tim" Seibert, FAIA, was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1998 for
being "nationally recognized as a leader in the Sarasota School of Architecture whose commitment to
architecture as an art has resulted in consistently provocative and elegant design solutions which distinguished
his work for over forty years." Tim received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Florida in 1952
and opened his own firm in Sarasota in 1955. He quickly gained a national reputation for his design work, and
over his more than 45 years in practice, the scale and scope of the firm's work grew to include large development
projects: luxury condominiums, resorts, marinas, and shopping centers in the United States, as well as diverse
locations such as Australia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. Now retired, Tim frequently writes and lectures on
architecture and planning issues, and his articles have appeared as a weekly newspaper column and in
professional journals.
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