Real Estate Updates

Chris Leinberger to Speak at Green Building Council Webinar and at the Michigan APA 2009 Spring Institute

noreply@blogger.com (Stephanie Grohoski) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:45:00 +0000

Chris Leinberger will be the keynote for the upcoming Green Building Council webinar on Friday March 20, 2009 at 12pm EST. For interested students and faculty, to join the online meeting, follow the steps below.
1. Go to https://usgbc.webex.com/usgbc/
2. Enter your name and e-mail address.
3. Enter the meeting password: membership
4. Click "Join Now".

Chris is also speaking at the Michigan American Planning Association 2009 Spring Institute on Tuesday, March 24 at the Lansing Sheraton. He will be giving the the lunch keynote at 11:30am. For more information, visit Michigan APA Spring 2009 Institute.

Christopher Leinberger Featured on NPR

noreply@blogger.com (Stephanie Grohoski) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:06:00 +0000

Christopher Leinberger, director of Taubman College's Real Estate Certificate program, was interviewed on National Public Radio's All Things Considered on December 10, 2008. Listen here:
www.npr.org

David Bergman named Co-Director of Real Estate Certificate Program

noreply@blogger.com (Stephanie Grohoski) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:26:00 +0000

David Bergman joins Taubman College as co-director of the Real Estate Certificate program. Bergman's experience spans real estate development, program management, land use planning, research, and urban/regional redevelopment strategies. In particular, he has worked intensively on issues surrounding the formation of urban and regional development strategies and the role of public investments in infrastructure for economic development. With a strong background in public policy analysis and the communication of economic development goals to community stakeholders, Bergman's professional practice has centered around public private partnerships, redevelopment, and general plan economics. In addition he has significant experience with culture industries and regional development, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse.

U of M team one of "Final Four" in ULI/Hines Competition

noreply@blogger.com (beverlyw) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:52:00 +0000

A University of Michigan team is one of “Final Four” in the Urban Land Institute/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, the most prestigious graduate real estate and design competition in the country.

Team members include (from left to right):
Sarfaraz Momin (M.U.D.)
Mike Johnson (M.U.D)
Deirdre Groves (M.U.P. and Real Estate Certificate), student team leader
Danielle Bober (M.U.P. and Real Estate Certificate)
Michael Tchang (M.B.A.)

Kit McCullough, Lecturer at TCAUP, was the faculty advisor for the team. The ULI/Hines Competition is a part of the course, UP 564, the Integrated Real Estate Seminar, the capstone class of the Graduate Real Estate Certificate. The course is taught by Chris Leinberger, Professor and Director of the Graduate Real Estate Program.

There were 96 teams in the competition from schools such as UC Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, among others. The urban design competition focused on The Cedars section of Dallas, immediately adjacent to downtown. The final four teams will have an opportunity to revise their initial design concepts following a site visit and will make a personal presentation in Dallas in early April, when the winner will be announced. Go Blue!
For more information see: http://udcompetition.uli.org/

Two Authors from U-M make the Top 10 Best Planning Books for 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Karen D) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:53:00 +0000

Chris Leinberger's Option of Urbanism and Sustainable Urbanism by Douglas Farr, B.S.'80 were selected by Planetizen for its seventh annual list of the ten best books in the planning field.
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