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newsletter | Monday April 3, 2006 |
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newsletter | Monday April 3, 2006 |
A supporter of Berkeley recently commissioned the following poster, which celebrates the Real Estate Program at Haas. The poster measure 17.5”x27” and the title reads “Berkeley: The Real Estate Program, Haas School of Business, University of California.” The caption at the bottom reads “Developing the Minds That Shape the Built Environment, http://haas.berkeley.edu/realestate”
Posters are available to BREC members for $10. A larger version of the image will be available on the BREC website shortly. A framed poster will be displayed at the BREC table during the Days At Haas Club Fair.
Contact Dave Saxe (saxe@haas.berkeley.edu) or Geoff Herrick (herrick@haas.berkeley.edu) with any questions.
The kickoff of the CUB Mentorship Program was a great success! On March 23rd, 16 mentors/mentees met together at a pizza lunch in C220. Mentors were from the 2006 & 2007 MBA classes, the EWMBA program, and the City & Regional Planning department. Mentees were all members of Berkeley’s Undergraduate Real Estate Club (UREC). After a brief round of introductions, graduate students met one-on-one with their mentee. The event was well received by both the undergrads and grad students.
A 3rd year undergraduate student majoring in architecture explained, “I am interested in real estate but do not know how to approach it. Gaining insight from graduate students will help me a lot.” An MBA 2007 noted, “This is a meaningful thing and I am excited to spend my time on it.”
This was just the beginning--CUB’s goal is to provide additional opportunities for mentors and mentees to interact. In addition, undergrads were encouraged to reach out to their mentors on an ad hoc basis with any questions.
For those that missed the kickoff event, it is not too late to participate. Contact Kenneth Wu at jwu@haas.berkeley.edu with questions.
The Breakfast Tour Program Series is sponsored by Michael Ghielmetti, President of Signature Properties.
Consumer thirst for easy access to shopping, entertainment and public transportation. Low interest rates. Mayor Brown's visionary 10K Downtown Initiative. All of these factors have contributed to a burst of development activity in downtown Oakland and Jack London Square. Join the ULI San Francisco District Council in the second of a series of breakfast tours designed to showcase the developments that are a part of Oakland's renaissance. This tour features Signature Properties’ The Estuary, 92 contemporary 2 and 3 bedroom townhouse-style attached homes along the Oakland estuary waterfront. Register online!
| Time and date | Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:00-9:30a.m. |
| Location | Harborwalk Sales Office 3090 Glascock Street Oakland, CA 94601 |
In June 2005, the United States Supreme Court held in Kelo v. New London that a city could condemn non-blighted owner occupied housing and convey it to a private party in furtherance of an economic development plan. In a closely divided decision, the Court found that the exercise of eminent domain under such circumstances met the requirement for a public use under the U.S. Constitution and that the courts should defer to the local legislative body’s determination of the need to condemn property for that purpose. There is debate in legal circles about whether the decision broke new ground in takings law. But the story of Kelo is not the significance of the case itself but the backlash in response to it. In this panel discussion we will focus on how the current system of laws governing eminent domain works and whether reform is needed, whether there should be a role for eminent domain the public/private partnerships, what legislation has been adopted and is proposed at the federal and state levels, and what the legislation, including proposed voter initiatives to amend the State constitution, may mean for the future of economic development and redevelopment particularly in urban areas in California. Register online.
Mr. Shirey has over 30 years of experience in a variety of government positions. As Executive Director of CRA, he oversees legislation, professional training and development, and public information for over 350 redevelopment agencies and over 300 private and non-profit organizations engaged in redevelopment activities.
Mr. Berger is one of the top land use and condemnation lawyers in the United States. His practice focuses on representing homeowners, landowners, and developers in complex litigation. He has argued a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Berger is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Manatt Phelps & Phillips, and is the co-chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group.
| Time and date | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:00 -- 5:30 pm |
| Location | Hyatt Regency Hotel 5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, CA |
| Moderator | Jesse Smith Chief Assistant to City Attorney S.F. City Attorney’s Office |
| Panelists | John F. Shirey Executive Director California Redevelopment Association Michael M. Berger Partner Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP |
| Cost | $40 – ULI, Lambda Alpha International and CRA Member $60 – non-ULI, Lambda Alpha International and CRA Members $25 – All Public Officials $10 – All Students |
| Time and date | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:30 -- 2:00 pm |
| Location | C-330 |
| Food | Pizza will be provided |
| RSVP | Brian Milovich, milovich@haas.berkeley.edu |
| Link | http://www.broadreachcp.com/nspieker.htm |
Mr. Spieker began his career in the real estate industry in 1967 and joined Trammell Crow in 1969 where he became the managing partner of the Northwest region. Subsequent to TCC, Mr. Spieker formed Spieker Partners which eventually became a public REIT named Spieker Properties. In 2002, Spieker Properties was acquired by Equity Office Properties. Mr. Spieker is now involved with Broadreach Capital Partners, a private equity firm focusing on opportunistic real estate investments. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics. More information on Mr. Spieker and Broadreach can be found at the attached link. This event is limited to 30 people.
We are pleased to announce that Tom Sullivan of Wilson Meany Sullivan, Craig Davey of RREEF and Doug Abbey of AMB will all be visiting Haas as Real Estate Professionals-in-Residence at the end of April. All three will be available for informational interviews and a group lunch or drinks with interested Real Estate students. Tom Sullivan will be here on Friday April 21st from 9-1:30, Craig Davey will be here on Friday, April 21st from 1 – 5:00pm and Doug Abbey will be here on Friday April 28th from 9-1:30. Below are the time slots when each of them will be available to meet with students. Next week I will send out professional bios of each of them.
Haas PIR Visit: Friday 4/21 9:00am to 1:30pm
Wilson Meany Sullivan is a privately owned real estate investment and development company focused on urban infill locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Tom will have six 30 minute informational interview slots available on his Friday 4/21 schedule between 9:00-12:15 and then will join a BREC host and several students for lunch at the Faculty Club. The time slots will be:
Haas PIR Visit: Friday 4/21 1pm to 5pm
RREEF is a full service real estate investment advisor that offers a diverse menu of investment options to institutions including separate accounts, core and value-added private investment vehicles and investments in publicly traded real estate securities.
Craig will have six 30 minute informational interview slots available on his Friday 4/21 schedule between 1:00-5:00pm and then will join a BREC host and several students for drinks at the Faculty Club. The time slots will be:
Haas PIR Visit: Friday 4/28 9:00am to 1:30pm
AMB Property Corporation is a leading owner and operator of industrial real estate, focused on major hub and gateway distribution markets throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Doug will have six 30 minute informational interview slots available on his Friday 4/28 schedule between 9:00-12:15 and then will join a BREC host and several students for lunch at the Faculty Club. The time slots will be:
To make an appointment to meet with Tom, Craig or Doug, please email Ellen Wilson in the Haas Career Center as soon as possible and no later than midnight Tuesday 4/4 to express your interest and your appointment time availability. Let me know which of these PIR visitors you would like to meet with and specify the time slots for each PIR visitor that would work for your schedule. It’s fine to request appointments with more than one of these PIR visitors – please just include all your PIR appointment requests in one email to me and indicate your desired time slots for each visitor. If you do request appointments with more than one PIR visitor, please rank your choices so I know which meetings are most important to you. As always, give me a couple time slot options per visitor so that it is easier for me to arrange the schedules.
If you are also available to attend a lunch (or drinks in Craig Davey’s case), please let me know that as well. Up to 5 students can participate in the group sessions so please let me know if you’d be interested in this if I’m not able to give you one of the 30 minute interview slots.
In addition, please forward your resume and ACRE focus statement to Ellen no later than midnight Monday April 17th so that I can forward this information on to our PIR visitors. Please put “4/21 or 4/28 PIR interview” in the subject line of your emails to Ellen. These PIR informational interviews will be conducted in the Haas Career Center, S330, and your dress should be business casual.
Interested in mixing with the Berkeley Real Estate Alumni? Ready to put your weekend remodeler skills to work for a worthy cause? Looking for an opportunity to give back to your community, with your hands and not just your wallet? Here's your chance...
The Berkeley Real Estate Club (BREC) is partnering with the Berkeley Real Estate Alumni Association (BREAA) to participate in a Rebuilding Together Oakland’s volunteer day, April 22nd.
We will be hauling, painting, fixing countertops and plumbing. The client is a family with 3 kids in the Brookdale neighborhood of Oakland.
Below is brief information about the event. If you are interested in participating, please RSVP to Steve Shanks by April 17th at shanks@haas.berkeley.edu. Partners, family and friends of our group are also welcome. We look forward to hearing from you and working with you on this event!
Also, we are working to get these hours to qualify for the C4C Sports weekend! So come on out and help!
Join Rebuilding Together Oakland’s neighbor-helping-neighbor team as we work to transform homes and community facilities this April. Everyone 14 and over is welcome!
| Time and date | Saturday, April 22, 2005 Check-in is between 8:00 and 8:30; expect to work until 5:00 |
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Registration is now open for the 17th Annual Real Estate Challenge, being held this year on May 3, 2006 at the Four Seasons Hotel, 757 Market Street, San Francisco.
Join us for a luncheon and special presentation as the two rival universities, Cal and Stanford, square off in a lively real estate competition. The teams will present competing plans for the redevelopment of the main campus of the Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, located at the intersection of Mission Street and Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.
The winning team will take home the highly coveted prize and symbol of The Challenge, the James W. Brecht Memorial Golden Shovel. A $2,000 check in the winning team's name will also be donated to Challenge for Charity courtesy of The Mechanics Bank.
NAIOP SFBA wishes to express our thanks to event sponsors The Mechanics Bank and Goodwill Industries. There are 3 easy ways to register:
Download the event registration flyer at www.naiopsfba.org on the events page.
PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY YOUR REGISTRATION. REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE MONDAY, APRIL 24 OR WHEN WE REACH CAPACITY, WHICH EVER COMES FIRST. DO NOT DELAY! REGISTER TODAY!