United International Pictures (UIP) was formed in 1981 and is jointly owned by its Partners, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures. Since its formation UIP has distributed over 1,000 films including more than 100 Academy Award® winners. UIP continues to bring many of the most exciting films made today to international cinema audiences. With distribution offices in 16 countries and licensees in a further 47, UIP distributes Paramount and Universal films to cinemas in Europe, Latin America and the Far East.
Established in 1984, The Urban Group, Inc. is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida based community revitalization consulting firm. The Urban Group’s professional platform is providing support services to public sector agencies, non-profit organizations, and private/public development consortiums using government funding. The firm undertakes work in voluntary and involuntary real estate land acquisition projects that necessitate relocation of displaced households and businesses.
Many of the firm’s projects use federal funding or assistance, thus primary service tasks involve administering programs where occupants become permanently or temporarily displaced. The Urban Group is a leader in implementing “single event” and “distress” residential and business redevelopment projects receiving federal assistance and/or governed by the federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as Amended (Uniform Act), and the parallel HUD 104(d) program. The firm also provides tenant relocation in accordance with the Florida Mobile Home Act, Florida Statutes 723, for mobile home parks that are closing and tenants have to move or abandon their mobile homes. Locating suitable and available replacement housing resources for displaced persons in crisis events has been an essential work platform for The Urban Group’s relocation team specialists. Toward this effort our inventive “relocation plans” connect social and health services to displaced persons creating a holistic approach to disaster spawned replacement housing activities. The firm provides appraisals for U.S. HUD, Florida Department of Transportation, Cities of West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs, Pembroke Pines, Margate, and Pompano Beach, Florida.
Smart Mobility, Inc. was established in 2001 as a consulting firm based in Norwich, Vermont that integrates transportation and land use modeling, engineering, and planning. The firm was founded by Norman Marshall, Brian Grady, and Lucinda Gibson, who together represent 40 years of experience in transportation modeling, engineering, design and planning. Norm and Brian specialize in developing advanced tools and techniques for travel demand modeling, regional air quality modeling, and analysis of land use/ transportation systems, with a goal of developing more meaningful indicators from regional transportation models. Lucy Gibson, P.E. has gained experience as a consultant and as a regional transportation planner, and specializes in sustainable transportation planning and project development that is responsive to environmental concerns, land use goals and current transportation policies and programs.