Grady Gammage Jr.

Grady Gammage, Jr. is a part time academic, a practicing lawyer, an author, a sometime real estate developer and an elected official. He thinks life is more interesting if you do lots of different things.

In his academic role, Mr. Gammage is a Senior Fellow at ASU's Morrison Institute. His work there focuses on urban growth and development, quality of life, and local economic issues. In that capacity, he was the principal author of a recent study on the future of a 275 square mile area on the edge of metro Phoenix called "Superstition Vistas." He also teaches at the College of Law and at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

As a lawyer, he has represented real estate projects ranging from master planned communities to sprawling subdivisions to high rise buildings and intense urban mixed use redevelopment.

He served on the Central Arizona Project Board of Directors for 12 years, and was President during a period of turbulence when the CAP was suing the Federal Government over the cost of the canal. He has also served on so many citizen committees, boards, task forces and commissions he has lost track.

As a real estate developer, he built an intense, urban mixed use project in the City of Tempe which won three architectural awards and has been widely acclaimed, but which has yet to reach positive cash flow.

Mr. Gammage is the author of numerous articles on land use and growth issues and speaks frequently throughout the United States. His book, "Phoenix in Perspective" has recently been issued in a second edition.