{"584332":{"#nid":"584332","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Elizabeth Hollister (MCRP \u002715) discusses her time at Tech and life after grad school","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPlease explain what your option paper was about.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy option paper was a feasibility analysis examining whether the property owners along Howell Mill Road could create a viable Community Improvement District (CID) as a funding source to address the corridor\u0026#39;s infrastructure issues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWhy did you pick that topic?\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI was working as a co-op student for Jamestown Properties at the time. A friend of mine who was a neighborhood leader in Berkeley Park asked me to hop on a conference call to talk to the Asset Manager for Jamestown\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;White Provisions development (located on Howell Mill) about the possibility of creating a CID. The idea germinated during that call. I decided that the go\/no-go decision to create a CID would require a fair amount of research and coordination which Jamestown probably would not have the resources to tackle. It seemed like a great subject for an option paper.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWhat was your relationship like with your faculty advisor?\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI was originally assigned to a transportation advisor, but in December of my second year when I came up with the CID research idea, I realized I couldn\u0026#39;t pursue the paper without help from a professor with a deep understanding of the real estate sector. Dan Immergluck agreed to work with me despite already having a full load of advisees. He was encouraging of my plan to take a idiographic research approach involving primarily one-on-one personal interviews. He helped me shape the paper outline and provided key expertise in how to analyze the property ownership data. I could not run with this idea without his support.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWhat are you up to these days? Is your research related to what you are doing now\u003C\/em\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYes, 100%. I called a meeting with the top 11 commercial property owners in the corridor. They all reached a consensus on the idea to create a CID and enlisted my help in setting it up since I had already spoken with so many of the owners. I am now the Executive\u0026nbsp;Director of the newly formed Westside\/ Howell Mill CID.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWhat are a few of the things you enjoyed most about the program here?\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI loved working and collaborating with such a talented group of classmates. Now that we have all graduated and taken the Atlanta planning scene by storm, I have friends in high places!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of city \u0026amp; Regional Planning alumna Elizabeth Hollister answers questions about her option paper, time here at Georgia Tech, and what she\u0026#39;s doing now.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning alumna Elizabeth Hollister answers questions about her option paper, time here at Georgia Tech, and what she\u0027s doing now.\u00a0"}],"uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2016-11-29 13:27:57","changed_gmt":"2016-11-29 13:36:03","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"584331":{"id":"584331","type":"image","title":"Elizabeth Hollister","body":null,"created":"1480425881","gmt_created":"2016-11-29 13:24:41","changed":"1480426637","gmt_changed":"2016-11-29 13:37:17","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222773","name":"evh.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/evh.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/evh.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":75204,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/evh.jpg?itok=oFKFJ6-H"}}},"media_ids":["584331"],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}