Urban planning alum Gretchen Minneman Kostura MCRP ’07 talks about her journey from a student focused on community development to her professional work in transportation, currently working for the CEO and President of Amtrak.
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Port Authority
Final Port Authority Centennial Symposium to be held December 7
This event will bring together public, private, non-profit sector leaders and academics to consider the issues and opportunities that will shape the future of the New Jersey-New York metropolitan region.
Remembering 9/11: Alumnus Don Free on the WTC Redevelopment
As Deputy Director of the World Trade Center Redevelopment Department, Don Free ’82, MBA ’87, MCRP ’93 worked on the restoration effort for about eight years.
Bloustein Alumni Spotlight: 9-11 and the World Trade Center Redevelopment
Jim Bach reflects on the profession of planning and how being trained as an integrator, along with understanding the connections between scope, schedule, and budget, allowed him to successfully work with the Port Authority and the multitudes of emotionally invested stakeholders involved in the WTC project.
How this 100-year-old agency shaped and at times disgraced the region
Great infrastructure projects — bridges and tunnels, airports, the PATH and the nation’s first container port — characterized that empire that unified the bi-state economy, but it wasn’t without political strife. “The Port Authority has been a factor in bringing the...
Alumni Career Panel gives students perspectives on trends, challenges and opportunities in transportation policy and planning
One of the Bloustein School’s greatest strengths is its extensive alumni network. Recently four alumni returned to the school in an Alumni Career Panel, offered by the Office of Student and Academic Services to give current students their perspectives on the trends,...
Urban planning students see freight systems, supply chain management in action at Port Newark
A group of Bloustein School graduate students and lecturer Anne Strauss-Weider met with Beth Ann Rooney, Director of Port Security for the Port Authority of NY & NJ (far right) and Scott Schoenfeld, the Chief Operating Officer for the Port Newark Container...