Curt Gibbs, Senior Resource Development Officer, City of Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)

Curt Gibbs is a Senior Resource Development Officer at the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) of the City of Los Angeles, the mission of which you can read about here.

Mr. Gibbs spoke this morning with Unwired LA (ULA) about the ways in which Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies are being put to use as part of the redevelopment process in Los Angeles and other California cities.

Among those projects involves Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles, where Verge Wireless Networks is building a Wi-Fi Hotzone as part of the CRA's redevelopment efforts there.

Mr. Gibbs recently wrote and published an article about the use of Wi-Fi as part of the redevelopment process. Entitled "WiFi HotZones: A Fad or the Future?—A New Technology for Redevelopment Project Areas", and published on the web site of the California Redevelopment Association, this article discusses present and possible future use of Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies as components in redevelopment efforts, particularly in Southern California.

In this ULA phone interview, Mr. Gibbs also mentions the use of Wi-Fi networks in the context of ExperienceLA, an inter-agency, public-private partnership dedicated to expanding cultural tourism and public transportation use in the Los Angeles area.

He also mentioned that he will be moderating a panel discussion entitled "Public WiFi and Redevelopment" on Thursday, March 10, 2005, as part of the 2005 CRA Annual Conference & EXPO ("Redevelopment. Building Better Communities") taking place at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California, on March 9-11, 2005.