GrowSmartRI

We need to ask you a favor!

Your fellow advocates and experts in transportation, housing, climate & environment, community engagement, and more are offering 15 terrific breakout sessions — panels, workshops, and walking tours — at our upcoming Power of Place Summit.

It's a lot to choose from, but please do, ASAP! We're assigning rooms for the breakouts based on expected attendance and we don't want to have to shut anyone out because a room has reached capacity.

➡ If you've already registered for the Summit, follow the link in the email you received about downloading the Whova app 📱, sign in, and select the sessions you want to attend.

➡ If you haven't registered for the Summit yet, do it! The clock is ticking... ⏰

https://growsmartri.org/power-of-place-summit-2026/

The Boston Globe's Dan McGowan talked with Executive Director Scott Wolf about his perspective after three decades of helping to shape Rhode Island's approach to growth, housing, transportation, and economic development.

Asked where he might contribute over the next 20 years, Scott told Dan:

"There are several ways I think I can contribute to this important needle threading exercise, including:
-- Continuing to be a sharer of smart growth best practices from within and outside Rhode Island;
-- Being an advocate and thought leader for better regional transportation and employment connectivity, as well as for housing and transit-friendly investments land use reforms that accelerate the revitalization of our downtowns and Main Streets and defy the predictions of population decline;
- Mentoring a new generation of creative economic and community development change agents.

Read more in McGowan's daily Rhode Map:

view.email.bostonglobe.com