AJ has nearly 15 years of experience in urban planning and community building efforts. His intense passion for urban cores and neighborhood nodes of all shapes and sizes makes him an incredible Director of Urban Planning. He has developed expertise in walkability, transit and parking as well as creative uses of GIS. Possessing both the abilities to plan and to execute, AJ brings his strong community connections formed while working for the City of Oklahoma City to ADG Blatt, having managed one of the nation’s most complex Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) at Downtown OKC, Inc.. AJ served as ULI Oklahoma's District Council Chair from 2015-2107 and currently serves on the ULI Oklahoma Governance Board.

Mr. Klingbeil is currently Chairman of Klingbeil Capital Management, the Investment Manager for multi-family value-added investment funds and other Klingbeil family investments. In 1958, while attending Ohio State University, Jim Klingbeil built a 19-unit garden apartment. This was the first step in a more than 60-year career developing multi-family and residential products. Subsequently, he and the entities with which he has been affiliated, developed, acquired, managed and sold 185 diversified apartment communities totaling over 43,000 units in 47 metropolitan markets. From 1975 to 1985 he was a Co-founder and Chairman of the Anden Group, which built approximately $1 billion of sales housing in the United States, Paris and London. Throughout his career in real estate, Jim has been an industry leader. Of particular import is his involvement in the Urban Land Institute of which he was President from 1991 to 1993, served on various committees and as a Trustee for over thirty years. Jim also served as Chairman of the Urban Land Institute Foundation. Currently he is Lead Director and member of the Board of Directors of United Dominion Realty Trust, a publicly traded real estate development trust. Jim is serving in his second three-year term as a Charter Trustee on the Board of Trustees for The Ohio State University. Jim and his wife, Sally, have four children and eleven grandchildren. The family is committed to philanthropic and community activities. Jim’s lifelong interest in animal husbandry and genetics have led to the breeding of top flocks of purebred sheep on their Ohio farm.

Ms. O’Connor is the Founder of the Coalign Group, providing expertise in real estate development and specializing in navigating complex financing structures, entitlements and municipal processes. Coalign also provides services to municipalities to develop economic development and redevelopment policies and strategies, streamline the delivery of economic development services and implement incentive programs. Prior to founding the Coalign Group, Cathy served as President of the Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City, a non-profit corporation designed to coordinate public participation in economic development projects. In her role as President of the Alliance, Cathy has been instrumental in furthering development throughout Oklahoma City and promoting job creation. She led the efforts to create the NE Renaissance Urban Renewal Area and Tax Increment Finance district that resulted in the development of a new grocery store to serve northeast Oklahoma City. She has led the efforts to develop several key projects including the Omni Convention Center Hotel to complement the new MAPS 3 Convention Center, redevelopment of the Skirvin Hotel, the GE Global Energy Research Facility and several projects at Tinker Air Force Base. She also led the team that developed and implemented the Small Business Continuity Program in response to the COVID 19 pandemic to help support small businesses in Oklahoma City. Ms. O’Connor is active in a variety of community organizations and currently serves on the board of directors of the Economic Club of Oklahoma, Integris Health System, The State Fair of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma County Historical Society and The Foundation for the Oklahoma City Public Schools. Ms. O’Connor is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma City and Leadership Oklahoma. Cathy received the Dean A. McGee Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 and received the Stanley Draper Award for Community Excellence in 2009 from the Downtown Oklahoma City Partnership. She was named the Journal Record’s Oklahoma Woman of the Year in 2009. She is a member of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers.

Professor Sagalyn is widely known for her research on urban redevelopment. Her most recent book, Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan, has received continuous praise and is regarded as the definitive account of that rebuilding challenge. Her earlier books include Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities (co-author). She serves as a director of several business boards and is active in civic organizations in New York City, including the RPA and NYC Trust for Cultural Resources. She earned her Ph.D. from MIT, MCRP from Rutgers University, and B.S. with distinction from Cornell University.

Ronald E. Bradshaw graduated from Harding High School in 1962 and continued his education at The University of Oklahoma where he graduated in 1966 with a Bachelors Degree in Business and Finance. He and his wife Martha who graduated from Harding in 1964 were married in 1968 and have spent their lives together in Oklahoma City. They have two children, Jason and Libby, and four grandchildren. After a business career in banking, real estate development and manufacturing Ron and his son Jason who had been an investment banker with JP Morgan Chase started a real estate development and investment company. They form Colony Partners Inc in August 2001. They acquired and operated a 211,000 square foot portfolio of office buildings. They then acquired the former 17-acre Fred Jones Estate adjacent to the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club and developed it into 31 single family luxury residential lots now known as Grand Circle. Colony became involved in downtown development by acquiring the former Kerr-McGee surface parking lots totaling four city blocks north of Bricktown and east of E.K. Gaylord Blvd. and have developed or co-developed The Brownstones at Maywood Park, 2nd Street Lofts, and The Maywood Apartments Phase 1 and Phase 2. Their latest project is the Page-Woodson School property and the surrounding ten acres. Colony Partners Inc and its partners acquired the Page-Woodson School at 6th and High Street on December 5, 2012 from the Oklahoma City Public School System. The building contains 90,000 sq. ft. and sits on 3 acres. It is listed on the State and National Historical Register and is two blocks south of the Oklahoma Health Science Center. It was built in1911 and was home to Douglas High School from 1934 to 1954. It stood vacant for almost 25 years. It has undergone a $28 million renovation into 60 affordable apartment units and an additional 68 affordable new units were built adjacent to the school building.