Michael Beyard

Biographie : Michael Beyard Senor Resident Fellow Emeritus ULI - the Urban Land Institute Washington, DC Michael Beyard is an urban planner and economist with more than thirty years' experience in the related fields of real estate development, land use planning, and economic development. His experience is focused in both the United States and Europe on commercial and retail development, shopping centers, e-commerce, location-based entertainment, and downtown revitalization. Until January, 2009, Beyard was Senior Resident Fellow and Martin Bucksbaum Chair for Retail and Entertainment Development at ULI, and he is now Senior Fellow Emeritus at ULI. He is the author/project director of numerous books including Developing Urban Entertainment Centers, Shopping Center Development Handbook, Dollars & Cents of Shopping Centers series, Value by Design, Developing Power Centers, Downtown Development Handbook, The Retailing Revolution, Ten Principles for Reinventing Suburban Strips, Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Shopping Streets, Ten Principles for Rethinking the Shopping Center, Ten Principles for Creating Sustainable Town Centers, and the Business and Industrial Park Development Handbook. He created and for fifteen years directed ULI's International Conference on Reinventing Retail Development as well a ULI's technology, Internet, and retail real estate forums. He also created ULI on the Future, ULI's annual publication devoted to emerging land use and development trends and issues, and the Entertainment Zone monthly newsletter. In his role as Senior Fellow, Beyard continues to be a featured speaker and advisor in the United States, Europe, and Latin America on retail, entertainment, and downtown development issues, and he is a widely quoted expert in national and international media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune as well as American and European planning and real estate journals. Prior to his current position, Beyard was Vice President of Strategic Development at ULI and responsible for the Institute's research, data collection, books, and conferences in the commercial development field as well as its new strategic initiatives. He created ULI's program in the retail entertainment field including international conferences, books, Urban Land magazine supplements, and strategic partnerships with other organizations. In addition, he is the past director of ULI's advisory work in Central Europe under the auspices of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the coordinator of program activities for ULI-Europe. Before coming to ULI, Beyard was a senior consultant in the fields of urban planning and real estate development. He spent 10 years at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Planning Research Corporation, and Gladstone Associates advising both public and private clients on market analysis, feasibility, and development planning. Beyard has been honored with membership in Lambda Alpha, the International Land Economics Honorary Society and was an appointed member of the Mayor's Interactive Downtown Task Force in Washington, D.C. Beyard travels widely and to date has visited for business or adventure more than 75 countries in Europe, South America, Africa, Australia, and Asia including four trips overland across the Himalayas and a successful ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro. He holds a B.A. in International Economics with honors from Rutgers College and a Masters in Urban Planning and Development from Cornell University where he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi. Feb. 2011