Richards is selected for Skyway panel
CNU President and CEO Lynn Richards was selected to join a panel to judge a design competition for transforming Buffalo’s Skyway, a segment of freeway that soars over the waterfront. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced the competition to solicit creative ideas for replacing the infrastructure, which is outdated and in need of replacement, with a $100,000 prize available for the winner.
According to Richards, “The investment now being considered for the Skyway is a significant opportunity to spend valuable infrastructure dollars in a way that addresses multiple community goals: enhancing mobility, promoting economic development, creating jobs, and reimagining the possibilities of Buffalo’s waterfront.”
The Skyway was listed on CNU’s Freeways Without Futures list in 2014. Others on the panel are:
- Rossana Rosado, Secretary of State of New York
- Byron Brown, Mayor of Buffalo
- Bob Shibley, Dean, University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning
- Hal Morse, Executive Director, Greater Buffalo Niagara Regional Transportation Council
- Ethan Kent, Senior Vice President, Project for Public Spaces
- Danielle Arigoni, Director of Livable Communities at AARP
- Lee Fisher, Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler-BakerHostetler Chair in Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University (Former CEO of CEOs for Cities)
- Jennifer Vey, Director, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking and Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- Calvin Gladney, President and CEO of Smart Growth America
