Jon Schler

Jon was the former director of the Colorado Center for Community Development at the University of Colorado Denver.  Before that, Jon was the Grand Junction Technical Assistance Personnel  providing technical and community development assistance to over forty western Colorado rural communities.

Jon has worked on hundreds of community-based projects in the past twenty-nine years. He advocates as well as works on historic preservation, heritage tourism development, park and recreation master planning, regional and community planning, trails and scenic and historic byways programs, and downtown development. He has worked extensively with the Colorado Scenic Byways Commission, working with six byway committees on the Western Slope and providing statewide workshops on interpretive signage, brochures and displays, developing and operating plans for visitor centers, and writing grants to promote the state’s scenic byways and tourism. He has also worked with the Colorado Main Street Program for the last four years, working on organizational development, design, economic restructuring, marketing and promotion.

Mr. Schler is presently on the Board of the Colorado Historical Society, past president of Colorado Preservation, Inc. (1984-1998), and former president of the Western Colorado Botanical Society (1986-1998). He is an ex-official on the Board of the Colorado Community Revitalization Association which runs the state Main Street Program and was an advisor for the National Trust for Historic Preservation for nine years.

Jon Schler holds a Bachelors of Environmental Design and Double Masters in Urban Design and Architecture, University of Colorado.