Kilbourne Urban Design

* **Rating:**C
* **Headquarters:**The Block Center, The Block , 2-6, Fifteenth-Twentieth Floors, Fargo , RRDMZ , 58102
* **Leadership:** CFO and acting Chairman Logan Offutt
* **Partnerships:**Not only is Kilbourne Urban Design one of the founding members of the Red River Valley Investment, Holdings and Development Group, but it practically IS the Group, encompassing a lot the day-to-day responsibilities of coordinating its disparate corporate partners.
* **Territoriality:**Kilbourne Urban Design works almost entirely within the Block, which is, of course, designated as the 'Downtown Development Zone', an extraterritorial possession of the Group, which KUD is responsible for administrating.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to separate out Kilbourne Urban Design from the Block itself. KUD's primary purpose is the administration, maintenance and expansion of the never-ending construction project. Formed from the Kilbourne Group,the Old Man 's company for rebuilding Downtown Fargo, which he formed in 2006. After the Awakening , when the Group was formed, the administrative and architectural elements of the Kilbourne Group were spun into a new company, Kilbourne Urban Design, with the mandate to not just rebuild what had been destroyed, but build beyond and surpass it, which they have continued to do for the last half-century and more.

While architect and (literal) financial wizard Helen Ness has been KUD's CEO on paper for the last eighteen years, its no secret that the Old Man still runs things from behind the scenes. Its Ness taking care of the day-to-day details but it is, as it has always been, the Old Man's vision that steers the company.

Helen Ness used her position to become Chair of the Group soon after the Old Man's death in late July '75, and weathered a number of storms over the next six months, both metaphorical and literal, until her brief tenure came crashing down in what the press has starting to call the "Solstice Blackout". While the events of that bloody night are vague, its effects on KUD's upper management were devastating. Helen Ness and Comptroller Nadine Corwin were both killed outright, along with several other KUD employees, dozens of BlockSec personnel and the entirety of the Supermodern Design Team (the leader of the SMDT Hector Belasco had been killed the night before, quite possibly by the same terrorists). Many more members of upper management were arrested by SDF when they arrived and remain in Sioux custody for undisclosed charges, including, but not limited to: Ness' executive assistant Cybele Vikram, Community Impact Manager Lorraine Hoeven Operations Manager Roland Stenjhem, Account Manager Roger Koppang and Accounts Receivable Officer Whitney Jung. CIO Brock Danielson was taken into custody on the orders of GOD

CFO Logan Offutt and VP for Development and Construction George D. Sinner (who's wife Danielle was among the night's casualties) were rescued by Sioux forces, a fact that Offutt later swore to in front of a Corporate Court inquest. As the highest ranking survivor, Logan Offutt moved quickly the next day to take control of the situation (and the company) and now sits at the head of the table as the de facto head of KUD (and, he fancies, the Group).

KUD Board

* CFO and acting Chair Logan Offutt
* CIO Dale Sanderson Jr.
* CAO (currently vacant)
* Vice President of Communications and Marketing Kent Schafer
* Vice President of Development and Construction George D. Sinner
* Vice President of Asset Management (acting) and Facilities Director Doug Hager

Non-Voting Officers

* Head of Research Doctor Courtney Rugen (missing)

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