Last-minute registrations are being accepted to attend the fifth annual SBT Commercial Real Estate & Development Conference on Thursday.
Last-minute registrations are being accepted this morning to attend the fifth annual SBT Commercial Real Estate & Development Conference on Thursday. The deadline to pre-register, which is required to attend, is at noon today. Only a limited amount of seats are available.
To pre-register call Sarah Wilson at (414) 277-8181 ext. 129.
The breakfast event will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8 at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee. About 600 people are signed up to attend, which will be the highest attendance in the event’s history.
The theme for this year’s conference will be "Back to the City." The event will explore the demographic factors that are driving more people to move back to urban settings and will examine the best practices of successful downtowns.
The annual conference is presented by SBT in conjunction with the Robert B. Bell Real Estate Program of Marquette University and the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin (CARW).
This year’s panel of expert speakers will provide insight about the rebirth of urban commercial real estate markets from a variety of perspectives. The panelists will include:
Afshin Ghazi, founder and president of The Ghazi Company, a Charlotte, N.C.-based commercial real estate development company that plans to build a $120 million mixed-use development with 200 condos, a 175-room boutique hotel and 100,000 square feet of entertainment, restaurant and retail space in downtown Milwaukee.
Tony Smith, practice leader at S. B. Friedman & Company, a specialized real estate and development advisory firm based in Chicago. Earlier this year, Smith and the Friedman team completed a strategic analysis of downtown projects for the Milwaukee Department of City Development.
Brian Vandewalle, founder and president of VandeWalle & Associates, a Madison consulting company that has opened an office in Milwaukee. Vandewalle created various economic development and downtown revitalization and master plans for several Wisconsin communities and has been hired by the City of Milwaukee as a consultant to create its City Strategic Economic Development Plan.
The conference will be emceed by Professor Mark Eppli, Ph.D., chair of the Robert B. Bell Real Estate Program at Marquette. Opening remarks will be provided by Richard "Rocky" Marcoux, commissioner of the Milwaukee Department of City Development, and Andrew Jensen, the chairman of the board for CARW.
The conference also will include the presentation of the Robert B. Bell Best Public Partner Award to Laura Bray of Menomonee Valley Partners (MVP).
