{"id":128,"date":"2026-06-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/sticky-places-the-economics-of-placemaking\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:51:15","slug":"sticky-places-the-economics-of-placemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/sticky-places-the-economics-of-placemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticky Places: The Economics of Placemaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Symposium 2026, Brad Jones, Chief Development Officer at Wesgroup Properties, and Michael Mortensen, Founder of Liveable City Planning Ltd., came together for a fireside on Sticky Places: The Economics of Placemaking \u2014 unpacking how thoughtful placemaking creates places people want to gather in, return to, and share with others.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"video wrapper reveal-fx reveal-fx--translate-up\">\n    <div class=\"video-frame\">\n        <iframe\n            src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1214720299\"\n            title=\"Video player\"\n            loading=\"lazy\"\n            allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"\n            allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Brad and Michael dug into the tension \u2014 and symbiosis \u2014 between placemaking and development economics, making the case that truly great places often demand investing ahead of returns to unlock lasting cultural and economic value.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Jones and Michael Mortensen explored the economics of placemaking \u2014 why &#8220;sticky&#8221; places require investing ahead of returns to unlock lasting cultural and economic value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ueastories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}