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Friday, March 3, 2006
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Events/Activities in March
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Argus Training kicked off with a 2-hour class on February 22nd. 60 students (50% MBA, 50% Undergraduate Real Estate Club) attended. Wednesday sessions will continue throughout the spring and will include analysis of office, industrial & retail properties. Check the syllabus for future dates and watch for update emails from Dave Saxe and/or Andy Zighelboim.
Scott Landsittel is now in charge of BREC’s checkbook (landsitt@haas.berkeley.edu). Please discuss any expenditure you expect to be reimbursed for with Scott before scheduling events. This also includes booking rooms at the Faculty Club.
Sean Ni, from the Undergraduate Real Estate Club (UREC) is now working with on the development and maintenance of the BREC website. Forward ideas on what you would like to see added (or improved) to herrick@haas.berkeley.edu or saxe@haas.berkeley.edu.
The BREC and UREC (Undergraduate Real Estate Club) are launching a mentorship program called CUB (Undergraduate and Berkeley Real Estate Mentorship Program) which is designed to connect graduate students with undergraduate students in a mentoring relationship. It is a good opportunity to further connect the real estate community at Berkeley and is a meaningful way for graduate students to give back to the university. Both mentors and mentees will be mutually benefited through this program.
For details of the program, please see the attached file. If you are interested to be a mentor, please reply this email to Kenneth Wu at jwu@haas.berkeley.edu. Your participation will be greatly appreciated.
Spring Firm Night is scheduled for April 20th at the St. Francis in San Francisco. More details to follow.
Moving forward with our Spring Firm Night planning, it's time to collect resumes, companies' names and feedback. This is how we split the work:
You need to send an updated version of your resume to Todd at tsmith@haas.berkeley.edu by next Monday, March 6th. Resumes will then be collectively forwarded to Thomas Randle from the Fisher Center and put together to create the Resume Book.
Note: Submitted resumes will also be made available online through the BREC website.
Use the attached spreadsheet template to fill in names of companies that you would like to see in this firm night and send it to me at barda@haas.berkeley.edu by next Monday, March 6th. Please make the effort to provide as much information as possible. Ideally, you will be able to provide us with a contact person in the company to make our invitations more focused and effective. Also, please use the exclamation mark column to rate the importance you see in a company's attendance ("!" for "I would like to see this company attend"; "!!" for "I want to see this company"; and "!!!" for "I'm not coming if this company is not attending").
We have all attended at least one firm night. Please use your experience and any other experiences you had in similar events to suggest anything we could do better in this firm night to make it as effective and successful as possible. Sarah at sarahharris@berkeley.edu will be collecting your input (again, by next Monday, March 6th).
EVENT FILLED
We are pleased to announce that Carl Shannon, Managing Director - Tishman Speyer, will be visiting Haas as a Professional-in-Residence to conduct informational interviews with interested Real Estate students on Friday morning, March 10th.
Carl Shannon is a managing director at Tishman Speyer and is responsible for all of the firm’s activities in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. Tishman Speyer is an international privately held development and management company which specializes in high end office and residential properties. Tishman Speyer’s portfolio includes One Bush Street, 595 Market St, and 550 Terry Francois Blvd in San Francisco; 400 Castro, Bayside Towers and Juniper Network’s Headquarters in Silicon Valley: and 520 Pike in Seattle. In addition to the existing buildings Tishman Speyer controls three major development sites in San Francisco. These include 300 Spear where Tishman Speyer is currently developing a 654 unit condominium project with delivery expected in Q4 2007. In addition Tishman Speyer controls a site at 555 Mission to build a 550,000 sf office building and at 201 Folsom a site to build a second condominium project of up to 700 condominium units. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, Mr. Shannon worked for both GE Capital and the Prudential. Mr. Shannon has an AB and an MBA from Harvard University. He lives with his wife Diane and young daughter in San Francisco.
INVITATION LAI GOLDEN GATE CHAPTER
MARCH 2006 LUNCHEON MEETING
Paul Thompson and Andrea Fernandez will discuss sustainability in the context of urban renewal and the aspirations of San Francisco. What exactly does the "Triple Bottom Line of Sustainability", Environment, Social and Economic, mean for regeneration?
Marshall Foster will provide an overview of San Francisco's new Livable City Initiative and discuss the challenges and opportunities for building a comprehensive greening program for the city. He will present several projects now underway to reform city policy related to the design of the city's public spaces, to reinvest in the character and quality of San Francisco's streetscapes, and to create new tools to support grassroots greening efforts.
| DATE | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| TIME | 11:45am-1:30pm |
| PLACE | Carnelian Room- 555 California St., San Francisco |
| COST | $40.00 (free as a guest of the Fisher Center) |
This event is by invitation only. BREC has 1 ticket, first one to respond by 3/9 gets it - herrick@haas.berkeley.edu
EVENT FILLED
Please join Sarah Harris for a lunch with Lynn Sedway, Director of CB Richard Ellis Consulting, on Wednesday, March 15th at the Faculty Club. Ms. Sedway’s bio is below.
To learn more about her company, visit this link
The event is limited to 8 students, and lunch is included. I will inform all participants of details closer to the date.
RSVP to Sarah Harris at sarahharris@berkeley.edu
Lynn M. Sedway, CRE, is Executive Managing Director of CB Richard Ellis Consulting, the successor entity to Sedway Group, the real estate and urban economics consulting firm she formed in 1978. Since founding the firm, she has led its consulting practice – which includes market studies, highest and best use studies, economic and financial analysis and fiscal assessments – which has earned an unsurpassed reputation in its field for innovative thinking, sound research and objective advice. Ms. Sedway’s major areas of specialization include public-private partnerships, negotiation, redevelopment, market studies, complex valuation analysis and corporate real estate. She also has extensive experience in evaluating market trends for major land uses, including residential, retail, office and mixed-use projects, and has testified as an expert witness in the areas of market and financial feasibility, valuation and real estate economics.
| Date | Thursday, March 16th |
| Time | 12:30pm – 2pm |
| Location | Faculty Club “E” Room |
| RSVP | Chris Oka, oka@haas.berkeley.edu |
Sean is a Managing Director in the Real Estate Merchant Banking Group at Wells Fargo. He has been with the group since its inception in 1994, and has been with the bank since 1990. Sean will share his thoughts on the real estate industry and explain the role and function of his group. A description of the Real Estate Merchant Banking Group can be found on the attached link. This event is limited to 15 people.
Please join the Berkeley Real Estate Alumni Association, the Wharton/Penn Real Estate Group of Northern California and the Haas Alumni Network- San Francisco Chapter for a lively debate about the future of the local and national real estate markets featuring two of the nation's most prominent real estate experts, both of whom hold strong views on the topic:
The debate will be moderated by Professor Emeritus Steve Chamberlin of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, who holds a Master's in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
| Date | March 21, 2006 |
| Time | 5:00-6:00: Registration and reception (light appetizers; cash bar) 6:00-7:30: Debate and Q&A |
| Cost: | $45 until 3/14; $50 thereafter (no MBA discount) |
| Location | Westin St. Francis, Colonial Room 335 Powell Street San Francisco, CA 94108 |
To register: www.acteva.com/go/hansf
Seating is limited and the event is expected to sell out. Please register early to reserve your place. Contact Tanya Steinhofer (tshaw_mba99@alumni.haas.org) for more information.
Friday, March 24 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Arthur Andersen Auditorium
For more information, visit http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/2006conference.htm or contact housing@haas.berkeley.edu
To register, go to http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=89467
Registration to open soon…
Mar 29, 2006 5-7 PM San Francisco, CA
http://www.uli.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=SF_Calendar&Template=/Calendar/Calendar_EventDetail.cfm&EventID=513
MEMBERS ONLY REGISTRATION: Now through Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Register Now for the NAIOP/SFBA Chapter April Breakfast
| Date | Tuesday, April 4, 2006 |
| Time | 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. |
| Location | Kaiser Center Auditorium, second floor 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland19th Street BART station (approximately five blocks); ample onsite parking |
Will Oakland continue to be a target of institutional investors? Will Oakland complete its evolution toward a 24-hour city? What obstacles stand in the way? With the Brown mayoral era coming to an end, what does the future hold? Find out from a panel of prominent Oakland stakeholders!
John Protopappas - president/CEO, Madison Park Financial Corporation
Thanks to our event sponsors: The Swig Company and Heffernan Insurance Co.
If you would like to sponsor a NAIOP SFBA event, please contact Alison Hawkins at AHawkins@eastdilsecured.com
Register via our secure website at www.naiopsfba.org with a credit card and be entered in a raffle to win free registration to the next regular meeting.
>For more information on the Kaiser Center, go to http://www.swigco.com/thekaiser.htm.