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CP900 SYMPOSIUM

Go Green Now:
Embracing Energy Efficiency,
Healthy Housing and Green Building

Atlanta, Georgia • February 27, 2008

Speaker Profile: Pete Hayley

Pete Hayley is currently the Executive Director and CEO of the University Community Development Corporation (UCDC). UCDC is the community and economic development agency for the Atlanta University Schools and the surrounding communities. UCDC is engaged in developing sustainable communities which include mixed income housing with an emphasis on affordable home ownership, commercial development including mixed use development, and economic development including job creation and small business development.

Under Mr. Hayley’s direction, UCDC was the first Community Development Corporation (CDC) in the nation to develop “green” single family homes under the “Green Community” program created by Enterprise Community Partners (formerly the Enterprise Foundation).

Additionally, Mr. Hayley is on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Community Development Corporation (MACDC), a non-profit, 501c3 corporation, created through a collaboration of six CDCs and is designed to provide construction management services for these CDCs across six different neighborhoods. All residential projects managed by MACDC include the Enterprise “Green” criteria.

Prior to UCDC, Mr. Hayley was the Managing Director of Commercial Development for the Atlanta Development Authority (ADA), where he worked with neighborhoods across the city to help them define their redevelopment plans and then assisted with identifying the resources and partnerships to implement those plans. Mr. Hayley was the project manager for the Historic Westside Village and helped form the public private partnership that created the vision for that project.

Mr. Hayley has also assisted with the implementation of a small business development programs which gives technical assistance to small neighborhood based businesses and has created a jobs recruitment program designed to identify unemployed and underemployed residents of the community for employment by business located in the same community.

Mr. Hayley is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and is a graduate of Georgia State University with a BA degree in Business Administration/Marketing. He has earned his Certified Community Economic Developer certificate from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC), is a certified Economic Development Finance Professional through the National Development Council and is the immediate past President and current Vice President of the Atlanta Housing Association of Neighborhood-Based Developers (AHAND).