287351 external_news 1396293787 1475893622 A free Land Use Forum session titled "Sustaining Vibrant Communities through Redevelopment" will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at Sugar Land City Hall. According to a Sugar Land press release, "The session is intended to help the community better understand the opportunities and benefits of redevelopment. The session will cover the causes of decline in retail and commercial areas, strategies available to revitalize areas to ensure they remain vibrant, and the role cities play in guiding redevelopment." The keynote speaker will be Ellen Dunham-Jones, an architect and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an authority on suburban redevelopment.

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