River) and a member of the Central City Association of Los Angeles and a board member of Friends of Waterfront Seattle. Streetcar Initiative (LASI) board member of FOLAR (Friends of the L.A. Keller is a member of ULI (Urban Land Institute) Los Angeles Advisory Board ULI Los Angeles Land Use Leadership Committee member of The Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy and Jobs board member of the L.A. Keller is highly regarded in the industry for his comprehensive grasp of asset and project management details and his ability to match leasing, construction and financing requirements.Īmong his activities, Mr. Keller and Keller-related entities have been responsible for over 2,000 projects in the continental United States and Hawaii and have provided program development, project and construction management oversight services to a variety of clients on projects valued in excess of seven billion dollars. Keller formerly led Urban Partners, Keller Equity Group, Keller CMS and Keller Construction Company. He is involved with the firms’ strategic direction, capital market relationships and tactical management of all Mack Urban investments. Paul Keller has over thirty years of experience in real estate and construction industries and is a founding Principal of Mack Urban, LLC. Since associating with FoLAR in 2009, he has worked on policy and legislation to open the river for public access and use and for river restoration. He graduated from Cornell University Law School in 1970, holds a degree in international relations from the University of Colorado, and served as a U.S. His work since has spanned businesses in environmental and alternative and conventional energy technology and energy conservation. Before moving to Los Angeles, his career was spent in public service in Washington D.C., holding policy positions in the Department of the Interior and the Council on Environmental Quality, and working with nonprofit organizations. Coming to Los Angeles and a neighborhood abutting the Los Angeles River in 1980, he became interested in the river and its potential while exploring and using adjacent roadways for biking and hiking.
He is currently on the Board of Directors of Friends of the LA River and centers his time on his book Poetry and Politics, a clear depiction of his lifelong work.Ĭharles has spent his career as an environmental and natural resources attorney, as a manager of businesses in those fields, and in the development of nonprofit organizations. Friends of the LA River was able to organize and lead multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-class coalitions that stopped major riverfront industrial developments leading to the creation of a pair of State parks in the Cornfield and the Taylor railroad yards. His pamphlet, D-Town Visions: Building A City The River Can Be Proud Of, was published at the beginning of 2008 by The Natural Resources Defense Council. Among FOLAR’s many projects are “La Gran Limpieza,” the Great Los Angeles River Clean-Up, the largest urban river clean-up in the United States a summer length riverfront cabaret, The Frog Spot, that has welcomed nearly 40,000 visitors a collaboration with the Aquarium of the Pacific, a K-12 “River School” outdoor education curriculum the “Los Angeles River Rover,” a 38-foot recreational vehicle designed as a mobile classroom and the first reports on legal access to fishing on the L.A.River. In the years since, FOLAR has become the River’s most important and influential advocate, with an E- newsletter and social media that reaches over 60,000 people. In 1986, MacAdams created Friends of the LA River, a “forty-year artwork” to bring the Los Angeles River back to life. Lewis MacAdams is an American poet, journalist, political activist and journalist.
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