AJ Kirkpatrick
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..
Known for his strategic thinking and ability to bring structure to fledgling efforts, AJ is the current chair of the Oklahoma District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and was the organizer of a recent effort to spread best practices in development by helping 25 Oklahoma professionals to earn Congress for the New Urbanism-Accredited (CNU-A).