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Howard Kohn HOWARD KOHN is the President and Co-founder of TCG. Howard received his LUMasters in Urban and Regional Planning from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Howard spent much of his early professional career employed by Baltimore City, where he was instrumental in the development of one of the nation's most successful commercial revitalization programs and public -private partnership efforts. In his role with the City of Baltimore, he: • conceptualized and established the commercial revitalization program, working with the Chair of the Mayor's Small Business Advisory Commission; • acted as the project planner for 10 revitalisation projects; • acted as the market analyst for all of the revitalization efforts; and • performed the role of a liaison between residential and business community interests. In addition to his involvement in the above program and as a result of his strong marketing and planning expertise, Howard played a key role in the following representative efforts: • the development of a work program to attract tourists to the Inner Harbor; • the development of the City's position and program for the Inner Harbor; • the development of a financial package for an office complex in the Inner Harbor in Downtown; • an analysis of the seafood industry in Baltimore and identification of potential sites for a proposed new wholesale seafood market; • analyses of rapid transit station areas' development potential; • the development of the economic development component of the master plan; and • the development of a program to create a labor intensive industrial service park in the Park Heights community. (The Park Circle Industrial Park is now a successful State Enterprise Zone.) Howard was also employed as an economic analyst for Baltimore County for several years. During that tenure, he: • developed market analyses and concept plans for commercial revitalization areas; • assisted with the economic development component of two master plans for the County; • developed economic forecasts for Owings Mills and White Marsh town center areas; and • assisted with the development of plans for light rail and rapid rail transit station areas. Howard has or was: • lectured on marketing and economic development at the George Washington UJ University, the University of MD., Johns Hopkins University, the U. of Baltimore, and Towson State University; and • received national recognition for his marketing and development work by the International Downtown Executives Association, National Council for Urban Economic Development, the Small Business Administration, the American Planning Association, the Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honor Society in Economics, etc. • the former Co -Chair of the Neighborhood Economic Revitalization Committee of National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs; • the past President of the Maryland Downtown Development Association; and • the past Treasurer of the Maryland Downtown Development Association. THE CHESAPEAKE GROUP, INC. 8516 GREEN LANE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21244 41 A-285-17W(FAX)41 r1-571-04817)