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Recap: Downtown Lafayette Housing Boom

Lafayette Downtown Housing Boom
Posted on April 9, 2012 by ULI San Francisco

On Tuesday, March 27, Steven Falk, Lafayette City Manager, Matt Branagh of Branagh Development, and Rick Dishnica of The Dishnica Company LLC participated in an interactive and lively discussion with more than 40 ULI members on the multifamily housing boom in downtown Lafayette, during an East Bay Brown Bag lunch event.Steve Falk opened the discussion by highlighting the City of Lafayette’s many attributes, including the quality of its public schools, semi-rural character, access to open space, and high level  of amenities.  He discussed the demand for multifamily housing from the … READ MORE

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ULI Speed Networking – A YLG Perspective

ULI Speed Networking
Posted on April 6, 2012 by ULI San Francisco

Networking – seems to be the name of the game as we meet people and continue our real estate related careers.  Whether you are looking for an architect on a project, an accountant for your audit, or a different job, there are numerous benefits to networking. How do you meet people who can help you? How do you begin to start a network when you only know a few individuals? Everyone has to start somewhere – the ULI Young Leaders Group put on a Speed Networking event earlier this month … READ MORE

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17th Annual Fisher Center Real Estate Conference

UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Posted on April 5, 2012 by ULI San Francisco

17th Annual Fisher Center Real Estate Conference Monday, April 30, 2012 Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel San Francisco 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. The UC Berkeley Fisher Center for Real Estate is planning an exceptional program for their 17th Annual Fisher Center Real Estate Conference on April 30th, 2012. At this time, more than ever, it is important for practitioners in the real estate, finance and legal professions to have the most up-to-date information and analysis of the forces impacting our nation and the world. To help you, they are assembling … READ MORE

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ULI San Francisco Tours Facebook Campus

ULIsf Facebook Tour
Posted on April 4, 2012 by ULI San Francisco

Facebook made 127 more friends at ULI on March 28 when it opened up for an exclusive tour of its new headquarters in Menlo Park. In the seven years since its founding in a dorm room, Facebook Inc. has now graduated into its very own campus after a series of leases and moves in Palo Alto. The 57-acre, one-million-square-feet former Sun Microsystems facility near the foot of the Dumbarton Bridge is now the East Campus for Facebook, which is leasing it from RREEF. Facebook also purchased from General Motors a … READ MORE

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SF Members to Speak at ULI Spring Meeting

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Virginia Rocha

Six local members are among the national industry experts and top decision makers featured at May’s ULI Spring Meeting 2012.  They’ll present at the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina. Tues May 8: Peter Calthorpe, Calthorpe Associates, discussion leader for “New Economy, New Value Equations” Wed May 9: Doug Abbey, ProLogis, discussion leader for “Trustee Leadership Roundtable”; Alan Billingsley, RREEF Real Estate, moderator for “Repositioning and Restructuring Retail”; Adam Engelskirchen, The Presidio Trust, discussion leader for “Urban Innovation and District Councils: Advancing Effective Public Private Partnerships”; Edmond Kavounas, Rockwood Capital, LLC, discussion … READ MORE

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Job Market Update with Terra Search

Posted on March 26, 2012 by ULI San Francisco

On Thursday, March 15th Matt Slepin, Managing Partner of real estate executive search firm Terra Search Partners, gave a lunch hour presentation on the state of the real estate job market to an audience of 15-20 ULI members.  The attendees varied from current MBA students to experienced industry professionals with interests that ranged from those trying to return to their path before the down cycle to those wanting to shift roles in the real estate industry. Matt opened up the discussion by stating that the real estate hiring market is … READ MORE

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ULI San Francisco holds TAPs Contest!

Dublin TAP Report Cover
Posted on March 23, 2012 by ULIsf

Bay Area cities are cash-strapped like never before. The Urban Land Institute-San Francisco District Council (ULIsf) is launching a contest to benefit a deserving Bay Area city, where the selected city will be awarded ULIsf’s Technical Assistance Panels (TAPs) service for free! ULIsf sees this as a way to help its Bay Area base while fulfilling its mission:  providing leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities. The TAPs program is a 1.5-day intense, high-level analysis of land-use challenges facing a city or public agency, … READ MORE

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San Francisco Ranked Number One By Zipcar

Zipcar Awards Mayor Lee
Posted on March 22, 2012 by ULI San Francisco

Zipcar, Inc., the world’s leading car-sharing network, has published its first-ever Future Metropolis Index, which ranks and celebrates top U.S. cities according to five factors: Innovation; Sustainability; Vibrancy/Creativity; Efficiency; and Livability/Optimism. Based on a robust performance across all five dimensions, the City of San Francisco ranked number one for 2012! Pictured above, Scott Griffith, Zipcar Chairman and CEO, (left) presents San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee with the 2012 Zipcar Future Metropolis Award. “Vibrant, efficient and sustainable cities are the key to economic growth around the world,” said Scott Griffith, Zipcar … READ MORE

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UrbanPlan Underway for Spring 2012 Semester

UrbanPlan Facilitation Alameda High | From left to right: Darija Michovich, Trevor Toy, Katherine Chiang & Evan Lee
Posted on March 21, 2012 by ULI San Francisco

The development team gathered to review the redevelopment proposal and the relative strengths of their plan in meeting the city’s requirements, the neighborhood group’s interests, site plan design considerations, the marketing potential, and finally, the financial viability.  That’s right, UrbanPlan is underway again for area high school and college students. Last week, UrbanPlan volunteers Joe Martinez, John Medford, Peter McLennon, Tom Terrill, Art May and I joined Marista Jarvis, ULIsf’s UrbanPlan Director, and the students of Allison Goldberg’s AP Government (with Economics) class at Alameda High School.  The gathered volunteers … READ MORE

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Central Market and the Rebirth of a Neighborhood

Central Market and the Rebirth of a Neighborhood
Posted on March 20, 2012 by ULI San Francisco

The San Francisco real estate community came together on March 8, 2012 for a dynamic discussion regarding the recent progress in our Central Market Street Corridor.  Our frank discussion brought developers, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs and arts/cultural foundations to the table at the Hotel Whitcomb, at Market and 8th Street in the hub of the Central Market neighborhood.   Our panelists included Amy Cohen, Director of Neighborhood Business Development in the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development; Tom Hart, Executive Vice President of Shorenstein; Crimson Rose, Founding Director of Fire Conclave Black … READ MORE

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