Scott in a nutshell...

First job as a planner was in a basement, then in a store-front in the Bronx, and now over a local coffeehouse in Evanston;
Brings on-the-ground experience in economic and community development to turn community aspirations into projects that can get built.

Mr. Goldstein brings eighteen years of experience in planning, neighborhood development, and fiscal analysis. With Teska, he leads a number of projects at the local and county levels - from quality-of-life planning and TIF applications at the neighborhood scale to fiscal analysis and economic development at the county and regional levels. Goldstein brings a commitment to utilizing planning and development tools to foster economic and community development. He has led several neighborhood planning efforts in Chicago, Bloomington, and Decatur, Illinois; Dubuque, Iowa; and Greensboro, North Carolina. He has also led community development strategy development in the Twin Cities and for Habitat for Humanity International. These efforts have resulted in on-the-ground projects and programs, from the creation of new community development corporations, to new and rehabilitated housing, to an adopted plan for a 720 acre new neighborhood in Wisconsin consistent with LEED Neighborhood Development standards. He has also worked on the connection between technology infrastructure and community development by developing broadband plans for five neighborhoods on the South and West Sides in Chicago and writing a successful $7.2 million federal grant to implement the plans. He has conducted several economic development plans, including industrial and commercial corridors in Chicago, downtown plans for Northbrook and Lake Villa, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana; and a county-wide fiscal model and calculator that predicts the benefits and costs of development for all 56 units of local government in Peoria County. He teaches Master's level courses in neighborhood planning and urban sustainability at Northwestern University. He has served as chair of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Chicago Public Policy Committee since 1999, and is a member of the Village of Wilmette Plan Commission. Prior to joining Teska, he served as vice president of policy and planning for the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC), where he led the passage of planning legislation in Illinois, created a local technical assistance program, and developed a regional water supply planning. He began his career coordinating comprehensive community revitalization for a large community development corporation in New York City.