Mark Brodeur’s passion is urban regeneration. During his 30+ years of planning/urban design experience, he has revitalized and re-energized over 200 downtowns, corridors and neighborhoods to success. Since Mark’s first City Planning Director’s post in 1979, he has been helping to set strategies to accomplish each project’s mission and vision. Visioning workshops, one-on-one sessions, cross-discipline task forces, and middle-of- the-night epiphanies were all invoked as appropriate to the success of each project. He walks the blocks and knows the talk. His background is a purposeful mix of public/private sector experience. He recently served as the President of the California Downtown Association. Mark has always been an advocate for urban regeneration and is continuously challenging the issue of suburban sprawl. He frequently points to urban revitalization as the most valid type of “urban sustainability.” Introduced to the National Main Street Program over 25 years ago, Mark has emerged as hands on expert in the Main Street Approach. He has prepared visions and master plans for several Main Street communities and is happy to say that two of his downtown clients (Coronado and Encinitas) have won the prestigious “Great American Main Street Award.”