The Raleigh City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint members to a jury that will select winners of a competition to redesign downtown's Moore Square. A jury selection committee recommended the five jury members to the council.

The following will be jurors for the Moore Square design competition:

• Dr. Robin Abrams, head of the School of Architecture at the College of Design at North Carolina State University. Dr. Abrams is a registered architect and landscape architect, specializing in inner-city revitalization, housing, and urban design. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects.

• Kofi Boone, an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at N.C. State's College of Design. Mr. Boone has expertise in urban design, community design, campus design, and participatory design techniques. His research focuses on the overlap between landscape architecture and environmental justice. Prior to joining N.C. State, Mr. Boone was a site designer at a an interdisciplinary design firm for 10 years.

• Sally Edwards, president of Marbles Kids Museum. She joined the Downtown Raleigh museum in May 2007 when it was known as Exploris. Two months into her tenure, she led the merger of Exploris and Playspace and the subsequent creation and grand opening of Marbles Kids Museum. Before joining the museum, Ms. Edwards served as a strategic marketing consultant for small businesses, specializing in customer-focused brand development.

• Perry Howard, program coordinator and associate professor of landscape architecture at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. He has extensive knowledge of sustainable design and infrastructure. Before moving to Greensboro in 1989, Mr. Howard was a vice president in the landscape architecture and planning firm of Edward D. Stone Jr. and Associates in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He is the immediate past president of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

• Edna Rich-Ballentine, a Raleigh native who has used her encyclopedic knowledge of Raleigh to advance neighborhood development concerns, working over the years with citizens and the City Council to reach solutions. Ms. Rich-Ballentine has served as past chair of the Eastside Neighborhood Task Force (now known as the Southeast Raleigh Assembly) and is currently a member of the Central Citizens Advisory Council and the City of Raleigh Historic Districts Commission.

Named as alternate jurors are Dr. Philip MacNelly, who is executive director of the National Association of State Park Directors; and Kermit Bailey, a graphic design professor at N.C. State.

The Moore Square Design Competition will be open to planning, design and engineering professionals and college students who majored in these fields. The entry fee will be $100 for professionals and $50 for college students. Ideas gathered from the public at three community open call sessions will be shared with participants in the design competition. The next open call session for the public to submit design ideas will be tomorrow, July 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Marbles Kids Museum, located at 201 E. Hargett St.

In the design competition, the five-member jury will review design concepts and select the first-place, second-place and third-place designers. The jury also will award honorable mention recognition. Prizes will be given to the top three finishers, with first place receiving $6,000; second place, $4,000; and third place, $2,000. The City of Raleigh intends to offer the first-place finisher an opportunity to assemble a team of professionals to participate in the Moore Square master planning process. The master plan team will hone the winning design concept into a schematic design project.

Registration to participate in the Moore Square Design Competition will be held the first week in August. The deadline to register will be Sept. 10. The last day to submit design proposals will be Sept. 29. The winning designs will be announced at the Raleigh Wide Open 4 celebration on Oct. 24. They will be on public display in a downtown location and posted on the City of Raleigh's website at www.raleighnc.gov. Citizens will be given an opportunity to comment on the winning designs.

The City of Raleigh hopes to approve a final design plan for Moore Square in mid 2010. The State of North Carolina, which owns Moore Square, will have to agree to the final design before construction could begin.

For more information about the Moore Square redesign, visit the City of Raleigh's website at www.raleighnc.gov.