Denise Starling
Executive Director @Livable Buckhead
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Director @Livable Buckhead
Atlanta, GA, US
With an undergraduate degree in Architecture and a Master’s Degree in City Planning, from Georgia Institute of Technology, Denise began her career working with Atlanta’s regional planning agency focusing on transportation and air quality issues. In Denise was hired to launch the Buckhead Area Transportation Management Association and took the organization from a fledgling transportation-only organization with in assets to one that has today expanded its programming to incorporate community development, sustainability and quality of life issues with more than $9 million in assets and an annual operating budget of Under her direct leadership, more than $20 million in outside funding was invested in the community and an additional $12 million in local investment was secured to support the organization’s initiatives. Highlights of Denise’s accomplishments include:• 14+ awards for exemplary programs and contributions, including the Buckhead Business Association\'s “Bullish on Buckhead” and the Atlanta Business Chronicle\'s Environmental Awards “Emerging Leader”• She designed and launched the unprecedented free shuttle,\"the buc.\"• She led the effort to develop a plan for addressing traffic along the community’s most congested thoroughfare which resulted in the identification of $40 million in improvements, many of which are currently underway, • She led the effort to rezone the Buckhead Village and commercial core which are shaping the future of Buckhead. • She led the creation of the Buckhead Collection Greenspace Plan, which identified the need for 106 acres of greenspace to be added to the community,• She led the design and development of a 5.2 mile multiuse trail along GA400 which is currently under construction and adds 13 acres of new park land to the City.• She brokered the first partnership between the State DOT and City of Atlanta to use highway right-of-way for parks.
EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Architecture
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's degree, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
ABOUT DENISE STARLING
For the last decade I have been bringing people together to bridge the history of divides to find common ground that encourages forward thinking to ensure the continued vibrancy of the economic engine we have in our community of Buckhead.
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