Registration and Optional AVA H Unit Tour 5:00 – 5:30 PM
Walking Tours 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Networking Reception 7:00 – 8:30 PM

Walking Tour begins at AVA H Street
318 I Street NE, Washington DC 20002

The ULI Young Leaders Group presents a walking tour highlighting the ongoing transformation of the historic H Street neighborhood in Northeast DC. Originally an Irish working class neighborhood in the 1800s known as Swampoodle, H Street was a bustling commercial district for much of the early and mid-twentieth century with department stores, music shops, pharmacies and the Atlas Theater. The neighborhood suffered economic setbacks following the riots of 1968 as city dwellers fled to the suburbs and the area fell into decline over the next thirty years. In 2001, the Atlas Performing Arts Center purchased and renovated the closed Atlas Theater, creating a multiple-venue arts center that would be a catalyst for the revitalization of H Street. In the early 2000s, plans for a streetcar line on H Street and the opening of several unique bars and music venues sparked development along the corridor. The renewed popularity of H Street as an arts and entertainment district has drawn substantial developer interest, evidenced by more than 15 projects recently completed, planned or underway along the H Street corridor.

The walking tour will feature the following stops, and maps highlighting developments in the H Street corridor will be distributed.

1. AVA H Street: – 318 I Street, NE:
   Tours will begin at AvalonBay’s new apartment development AVA- H Street with a tour of the property and brief project summary by Jeff Wood.
2. 360 Degrees / Giant – 3rd and H Street, NE:
   Guy Steuart of Steuart Investment Company will present 360 Degrees, a mixed use project with 42,000 square foot Giant, Grand Opening was Spring 2013.
3. H Street Plaza – 625 H Street NE:
   Kevin Roberts and Germano Gomez of JAIR Lynch will present H Street Plaza, a mixed use project with over 300 residential units and 10,000 sf of retail scheduled to deliver in Q3 of 2015.
4. Atlas Performing Arts Center – 1333 H Street, NE:
   Anwar Saleem of H Street Main Street will present their early and longstanding role in bringing economic development and neighborhood revitalization to H Street.
5. Biergartenhaus – 1355 H Street, NE:
   Networking reception with the emphasis on how retail and entertainment venues have shaped H Street as a creative and unique destination.

Transportation

ARRIVAL: AVA H Street is approximately six blocks from the Union Station Metro (Red Line) at 318 I Street, NE. For those taking Metro to Union Station, exit at the Amtrak/Union Shops exit, take escalator up to 2nd floor, walk through the parking garage, turn right onto H Street, walk to 3rd and H St., NE, and turn left on 3rd St., NE.

RETURN: Complimentary shuttle service will be provided from Biergartenhaus with stops at both AVA H Street and Union Station beginning at 7:00 pm and concluding at the end of the networking event at 8:30 pm.

PARKING: Hourly garage parking is available at Union Station.

Registration Information

2013 Corporate Sponsors
Please forward attendee information to ckeen@uli.org

Pre-Registration Deadline – Monday, June 10th
After this date please add $5 to each category

To check availability after the deadline date please call:
240-497-1919

The Urban Land Institute’s Sustainability Committee presents a program on Sustainable Southwest: The Past, Present, and Future of Sustainable Urbanism in Southwest DC. Two panels will explore sustainability-related land use challenges and opportunities in the District’s Southwest quadrant. Session 1 will feature speakers from The National Capital Planning Commission and The JBG Companies and focuses primarily on the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood. Session 2 will feature speakers from PN Hoffman and The DC Office of Planning and focus primarily on the Southwest Waterfront.

Both sessions will explore the complex challenges associated with creating a more sustainable urban fabric in DC’s neighborhoods and the opportunities that abound for interested parties. Our expert panelists will provide valuable insight into such questions as: What plans have been put in place to promote sustainable land use in Southwest DC and how successful have these been? What goals do planners and developers have for future projects in this quadrant and how do they intend to realize their objectives? What mistakes have been made in pursuing previous sustainability endeavors and how can we avoid repeating these? How can public and private land use professionals optimally leverage each other’s strengths to achieve holistically positive outcomes?

Registration: 4:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Panels: 4:30 to 6:15 p.m.
Networking Reception: 6:15 to 7:15 p.m.

Panel 1: Southwest Federal Center

Eileen Nacev – Vice President, Commercial Asset Management, The JBG Companies
Britt Snider – Senior Vice President, Development, The JBG Companies
Diane Sullivan – Urban Planner, Physical Planning Division, National Capital Planning Commission

Moderator
David Winstead – Attorney – Ballard Spahr LLP, and Former Public Buildings Commissioner at GSA

Panel 2: Southwest Waterfront

Melissa Bird – Neighborhood Planning Coordinator – Ward 6, DC Office of Planning
Joel Lawson – Associate Director, Development Review, DC Office of Planning
Matthew Steenhoek – Development Manager, PN Hoffman

Moderator
Uwe Brandes – Senior Vice President, Initiatives, Urban Land Institute

Registration Information

*Pre Registration Deadline – Thursday, June 20th
(after this date, the registration fee will increase by $5)

2013 Corporate Sponsors
Please forward attendee information to ckeen@uli.org

To check availability after the deadline date please call:
240-497-1919

The ULI Young Leaders Group presents a panel discussion for everyone about the rise of Washington, DC’s technology start up community. The overall success rate for entrepreneurship in the region places the Washington, DC area as one of the top places in the country to innovate – fourth nationally for tech start-ups. DC has accelerators, incubators, nationally recognized VC firms, and local government agencies that are committed to fostering further development of this scene. Further, local tech entrepreneurs have capitalized on the security and software needs of the federal government over the past 25 years. As the region continues to attract a well-educated, young workforce the number of entrepreneurial ventures is accelerating as quickly as the business cycles. Join ULI’s education committee to understand what indicators prove fruitful for local entrepreneurship, how local government attracts start-ups, and how the real estate community has begun to adapt workspace and business models to accommodate the non-traditional needs of these firms.

Topics of discussion during the event will include:

• The primary business models that support start-up activity and how commercial real estate experts are mitigating property-level and financial risks while capturing market opportunities
• The local Government initiatives to support start-up businesses
• The demographics of start-ups and why the DC region is one of the top cities in the U.S. to attract talent
• The unique business challenges for start-ups and how those challenges translate to real estate space utilization
• How to design and market space to start-ups

Speakers:
Angie O’Grady – COO, Carr Workplaces
Andy O’Brien – National Director, Tenant Representation, Jones Lang LaSalle
DJ Saul – CMO, iStrategy Labs
Jennifer Boss – Office of the Deputy Mayor’s office for Planning and Economic Development

Program:
7:30-8:00 AM – Registration and breakfast
8:00-9:30 AM – Panel discussion and Q+A.

Registration Information

Mosaic — DC’s newest neighborhood district — is home to a curated collection of unique local shops and restaurants mixed with the best national retailers, along with boutique office space, a 148-room hotel, 780 multi-family apartments and 112 EYA townhomes.

While well-positioned in the heart of Fairfax County at the intersection of I-495 and Route 66 and adjacent to the Dunn Loring Metro station, the Merrifield sub-market was historically perceived as an area with a high concentration of low-rise industrial uses with constant traffic issues at the intersection of Lee Highway (Rte. 50) and Gallows Road.

In 1998, Fairfax County developed a Comprehensive Plan to bring urban-designed density to Merrifield. A critical element of this vision was the development of Mosaic District (at that time known as the Merrifield Town Center) that would serve as the community gathering place from both a local and regional perspective.

In 2003, EDENS began investigating development opportunities of the 31-acre NAI multiplex theater site. A strong vision and well-defined set of project values would be required to create a great place that would truly enhance the community. Resilient partnerships, that were focused on the ultimate vision were also vital to navigate ever-changing development conditions and the largest recession in recent US history.

In October 2012, the first phase of Mosaic opened featuring the 8-screen Angelika Film Center, MOM’s Organic Market, Target (elevated on the 4th floor above District Avenue), over 20 artisan retail shops, 73,000 sf of office, a Hyatt House hotel, and a one-acre park. Along with the new community-based retail, the first residents began moving into the project in the summer of 2012 as well. By 2015, almost 30,000 residents will be part of the overall Merrifield community within walking distance to Mosaic.

Mosaic and the overall revitalization of Merrifield represents the best of public-private partnerships. A vision of community revitalization that incorporates transit-oriented, urban design with a curated collection of the best local and national retailers, and a true mix of uses. Join us on June 12th to hear more about the success of the project to date.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• The story of Mosaic and the revitalization of Merrifield
• An overview of the planning and zoning challenges in bringing urban principles to a suburban area
• The development of Fairfax County’s first TIF financing
• The critical importance of design in creating great places
• The strategy of cultivating a unique retail merchandising mix
• The challenges in changing the perception of a place and engaging the community

Presenters

Jodie W. McLean, President and Chief Investment Officer of EDENS
BIO
Barbara Byron, Director of Fairfax County’s Office of Community Revitalization and Reinvestment
BIO

Program:

4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Registration

5:00 – 6:15 p.m.
Panel Presentation with Audience Q and A

6:15 – 6:45 p.m.
Property Tours

6:45 – 7:30 p.m.
Networking Reception

Registration Information

2013 Corporate Sponsors
Please forward attendee information to ckeen@uli.org

Pre-Registration Deadline – Thursday, June 6, 2013

To check availability after the deadline date please call:
240-497-1919

Register ONLINE here
or
Download a faxable registration form here
or
Call 800-321-5011
(mention meeting code: # 8138-1315)

Location:

• Angelika Film Center & Café, 8200 Strawberry Lane (@ Lee Highway and Gallows Road)
• Metro: The Dunn Loring-Merrifield Metro Station is located one mile to the south of Mosaic on the Orange Line
• Driving: Parking available across the street from Angelika at either Market Garage or below the Target store

Please respond by RSVP with attendees’ names to Emily Weberman to Emily.Weberman@ULI.org.

Ben and Brandon took the first hour of the presentation to give an overview of Popularise and Fundrise – how they work and how they are transforming the real estate industry. The last half hour of the presentation consisted of a question and answer session between Ben, Brandon and the ULI audience.  Ben provided a sense of how revolutionary crowdfunding and crowdsourcing could be for the real estate industry.  The internet has already changed and “disrupted” other industries – and now the potential exists for that change to translate over to real estate and development.  The technologies could “democratize” how people invest and participate in the development process – brining change to older institutions and processes historically associated with real estate finance.

By Jamie Gorski

We heard from Zipcar & Buzzcar founder Robin Chase on her desire to live in a world where people care about sources and consider the consequences of their lifestyle, where individuals and companies thrive in a mutually beneficial and efficient system, and where opportunities to participate abound. In her keynote, Ms. Chase encouraged innovation by working together and making use of excess capacity, and suggested taking typical business models and turning them inside-out – creating businesses that share excess capacity on a platform with participation and shared value.

Ms. Chase used this idea when she envisioned Zipcar, a car sharing service in which cars are shared by the hour or day, instead of being owned. “It’s as easy to rent a Zipcar as it is to get money out of an ATM,” she stated.  The proof is in the numbers, with Zipcar boasting 700,000+ users, more than 10,000 cars, and offering numerous environmental benefits.

Bed sharing was another example of an efficient business model. In just four years, Airbnb, an online service that provides a platform for individuals to rent unoccupied living space as short-term lodging for guests, has created more than 250,000 listings in 30,000 cities and 192 countries, and successfully booked more than 10 million nights worldwide. More rooms have been booked on airbnb.com than with the largest hotel chain in the world.

Ms. Chase also noted other companies that have exemplified the innovation and symbiotic model she advocates, including: Couchsurfing, Etsy, Skpe, Fiverr, Flickr, Facebook, and Topcoder.

Harriet Tregoning, director of the DC Office of Planning, moderated the session and asked attendees to offer examples of excess capacity in real estate. Lobbies, amenities with no public access, empty retail and office space, malls, and rooftops were all mentioned. Ms. Chase urged owners of real estate to find alternative uses for these spaces with excess capacity, and suggested they consider allowing more pop-up spaces in huge, vacant retail locations, permit short term retail & commercial leases and allow commercial kitchens to be used by food producers.

Ms. Chase encouraged creating mutually beneficial and efficient businesses, and provided a thought provoking discussion on how her proposed business model can be used in the future, beyond transportation and mobility issues.

By Emily Washington

Barbara Schaefer McDuffie, Director of Baker Tilly moderated a ULI Trends Conference panel on the ongoing redevelopment in Montgomery County’s White Flint. The panel featured Don Briggs, President of Federal Realty Investment Trust, Diane Schwartz Jones, Director of Permitting Services for Montgomery County, Bill Hard, Executive Vice President of LCOR, and Francine Waters, Senior Managing Director of Transportation and Smart Growth for Lerner Enterprises. They discussed their roles in the redevelopment process, representing the public and private sectors.

Early on in White Flint’s redevelopment, both county officials and developers recognized infrastructure financing as a challenge. While initially, the developers favored Tax Increment Financing, in which the growth in property taxes spurred by this development would be used to pay debt taken out for infrastructure, Schwartz explained that county officials vetoed this approach because of the uncertainty involved in predicting future tax revenues. “The bonds would have been issued because the county couldn’t control development timing. A TIF would have counted against our debt limit, meaning less borrowing potential for schools, roads, and other county priorities.” Briggs said he came to agree with the county’s perspective because of Montgomery County’s reputation for having the political will to provide high quality public services and because of the county’s strong balance sheet.

He explained that instead of a TIF, he came to support the county’s favored financing method of a Development Impact Tax. “Developers didn’t intend for the county to pay 100% of needed infrastructure improvements,” he said. “ The question becomes, ‘how do you captures the private sector?’ It’s easy for landowners to build roads on their own property, but we chose a different tranche. We chose a Development Impact Tax that provides a surcharge on private landowners in the district because everyone’s land values will be going up as a result of this project.”

Infrastructure changes on the 400-acre site include a new grid network of streets to provide an option for automobile transportation aside from Rockville Park. Additionally, the White Flint Development Partnership has hired AECOM to provide strategies to transform Rockville Park into a grand boulevard with the hope of making this thoroughfare more accessible to pedestrians and bicyclists. While White Flint has Metro access that provides commuters with a transit option to reach DC and other destinations, the transit plan includes rapid transit on Rockville Pike to provide a commuting option aside from personal automobiles for shorter trips.

The three developers working in the White Flint area are all also stakeholders in the Tysons Corner redevelopment. They commented that the development process in Fairfax County has differed significantly from Montgomery County because in White Flint, the developers have been able to work together to jointly develop infrastructure plans. In Tysons Corner, 35 property owners are involved in the redevelopment, too large of a group to reach consensus on providing these public goods. While the developers in White Flint are competing for tenants, at the same time this small group or stakeholders is dependent on one another for the area’s overall success.

By Leslie Braunstein

Housing the “gray tsumani” of aging baby boomers –call them “seniors” at your own peril – was the subject of a concurrent session at the ULI Washington Real Estate Trends conference.

John K. McIlwain, ULI senior resident fellow/J. Ronald Terwilliger Chair for Housing, kicked off the panel by summarizing his detailed study Housing in America: The Baby Boomers Turn 65. Todd Harff of Creating Results, David Mayhood of The Mayhood Company, Bozzuto Management Company’s Julie Smith, and Perkins Eastman’s Dan Cinelli made the following observartions:

• When the over-65 generation says they want to “age in place,” what they really mean is that they don’t want to live in an institution. Many are ready and eager to move.
• Our culture is defining a new time of life after the children have left the nest; the baby boom cohort is the first to fully take advantage of this “second adulthood.”
• Local zoning regulations must be adjusted for increasingly converging uses, such as age-restricted housing on college campuses, allowing public use of high school libraries and other facilities, providing living space for caretakers, etc.
• Today’s CCRCs (continuing care retirement communities) emerged from a health care model; why not use a hospitality model instead? Unbundling the care element from housing allows development of more affordable options.
• The boomers are such a large and diverse cohort that there are opportunities to create many different types of housing, such as co-housing, affinity group living, and other niches.
• Bozzuto’s research shows that older residents have twice the income as younger renters, use onsite amenities extensively, adore their pets, and like a walkable urban environment – but not one that’s “gritty.”

By Leslie Braunstein

With 40 percent of today’s office space not being used and a decreasing amount of work that has to be done in an office by office workers, why bother with buildings at all? That was the question posed by ULI Washington Real Estate Trends conference keynote speaker David P. Lathrop, Director of Research and Strategy at Steelcase, Inc.

Lathrop described his company’s research agenda, which is looking deeply into how human beings actually function in workspaces and in other aspects of their lives. He pointed out that in the pre-industrial era, there was no real separation be3tween work and life; the post-World War II era gave rise to tall office buildings reflecting hierarchical business organizations and designed to symbolize status and rank. The future, while we can’t quite see it from here, is likely to include more collaborative work models and spaces.