John D. Simmerman, MS, is a veteran public health and health promotion professional and consultant with over 33 years of experience helping communities create more people-oriented places and a “Culture of Activity” through proven “All Ages & Abilities” design concepts and evidence-based behavior change initiatives.

Mayor Philip Stoddard served five terms as Mayor of the City of South Miami from 2010 to 2020, choosing to step down voluntarily after a decade of service. Mayor Stoddard was instrumental in starting solar purchasing co-ops in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.

So, what do you do as a local when you’ve had a few moderate successes, sold a few small software companies, and have some money to invest? For my wife and me, I looked to downtown Panama City.

John Massengale AIA CNU was Seaside Town Architect in 1986 and a Seaside Prize Winner in 2019. With Victor Dover he wrote Street Design, The Secret to Great Cities and Towns (Wiley, 2014).

Bernice Radle is the Executive Director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, a non profit dedicated to saving and restoring historic properties in Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a founding principal of DPZ CoDesign, and the Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Miami where she directs the Master in Urban Design Program, after 18 years as dean of the School of Architecture.