Skip to content
Homepage
  • Market
    • Illinois
    • Indiana
    • Iowa
    • Kansas
    • Kentucky
    • Michigan
    • Midwest
    • Minnesota
    • Missouri
    • N Dakota
    • National
    • Nebraska
    • Ohio
    • S Dakota
    • Tennessee
    • Texas
    • Wisconsin
  • Events
  • Sector
    • CRE
    • Finance
    • Healthcare
    • Hospitality
    • Industrial
    • Legal
    • Multifamily
    • Net Lease
    • Office
    • Retail
    • section
    • Seniors Housing
    • Student Housing
  • Real Estate Awards
  • Login/Register

Chicago nabs Detroit development director to run city planning

July 19, 2019
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share via email

The city of Chicago has hired Maurice Cox as planning commissioner. Cox will start his term in the fall, once he leaves his current position as director of planning and development in Detroit.

According to a report in The Detroit News, Cox was appointed in 2015 and in that time he has been mandated with bettering development in Detroit’s neighborhoods and bolstering the city’s land reuse policies. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has made economic development in impoverished neighborhoods a banner of her administration, as evidenced by her recommendation for five South and West Side locations for a future Chicago casino.

In Detroit, Cox led the city’s “20-minute neighborhoods” initiative, designed to bring everyday necessities and services within reasonable walking and biking distances of all residents. His term was also marked by improving infrastructure, streets, parks and amenities as a strategy for building communities that residents would want to live in long term.

A New York native, Cox is a former associate dean of Tulane University’s School of Architecture. He also was previously a design director at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. and was director of the Tulane City Center, a city-based design resource center for New Orleans. From 1996 to 2004, Cox held public office as a council member and mayor for Charlottesville, Virginia.

Tags
Chicagocity of chicagoDetroitIllinoisMaurice CoxMayor Lori Lightfoot
" "

Subscribe

Subscribe to our email list to read all news first.

Subscribe
Related Articles
OhioRetail

Marcus & Millichap sells 5,374-square-foot service center in Ohio

April 15, 2021
IllinoisHealthcare

IMPACT Strategies managing construction of 40-bed rehab hospital near St. Louis

April 15, 2021
KentuckyRetail

Marcus & Millichap closes $1.4 million sale of retail center in Louisville

April 15, 2021
MinnesotaNationalRetail

Pandemic or not, investors still love those grocery stores

Dan RafterApril 15, 2021

Subscribe

Subscribe to our email list to read all news first.

Subscribe
REJournals logo

Market

  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Michigan
  • Midwest
  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • N Dakota
  • National
  • Nebraska
  • Ohio
  • S Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Wisconsin

Sector

  • CRE
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Hospitality
  • Industrial
  • Legal
  • Multifamily
  • Net Lease
  • Office
  • Retail
  • section
  • Seniors Housing
  • Student Housing

Subscribe

Subscribe to our email list to read all news first.

Subscribe
  • Contact Us
  • Events
  • Office Locations
© 2021 REjournals.com