Bryce Turner

Biography: Bryce A. Turner serves as President of BCT Design Group. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and has served in leadership positions with ULI in the Washington and Baltimore District Councils. He is currently a member of the National ULI Redevelopment and Reuse Product Council and has served on Advisory Services Panels (Redbird Mall, Houston) and Technical Advisory Panels (Annapolis City Dock, etc.). Bryce’s passion and talent are focused on the urban design of public spaces and architecture that promote socialization, community building, and economic development. Successful projects include National Harbor, (MD), Yard 56, Baltimore (MD), Eastgate Complex (Harare, Zimbabwe), Downtown Silver Spring, (MD), Fairfax Corner (VA), and Belvedere Square, Baltimore (MD). Turner's university thesis in the early 80's at Virginia Tech was entitled "Urban Infill in Main Street Communities" and involved the development of urban design and infill architecture to complement existing pedestrian scale communities. Much of BCT’s work today involves commercial and mixed-use developments that have evolved from that original thesis. Turner is recognized as the energetic force behind the firm's emergence from a small design consulting firm to a globally recognized architecture and planning firm. The firm is currently exploring and designing multi-generational communities that integrate food, health & wellness, retail, workplace and housing in communities in China, the U.S., and around the world.. He is the former Chair of ULI Baltimore District Council and credited with completing the successful Reality Check Plus visioning initiative across the State of Maryland in 2004. Turner has been recognized by Maryland for his work with ULI as being instrumental in increasing the awareness of "Quality Growth Principles" and the need for greater density in urban areas and inner suburbs. In 2011, Mr. Turner was appointed by Governor Martin O'Mall