Real Estate Development and Reuse
July 16-17, 2015 │ Philadelphia, PA

AICP Certification Maintenance points: CM | 16

This course clearly articulates the eight stage process for real estate development and reuse. Specifically, course participants will learn the fundamentals of market and site analysis, financial feasibility, and what political considerations are required to move a development project from conception to realization. Additionally, this course will cover a wide variety of financing tools that are available at the local, regional, and state levels, including tax increment financing, bond financing, tax credits, tax abatements, land assembly, and brownfield redevelopment. Multiple in-class case studies will be used to help participants work through actual financial and regulatory problems.

Course Highlights:

• Housing, retail, office, industrial, hotel, and mixed use development 
• The regulatory and approval process including zoning and permitting 
• Assessing community involvement and political feasibility 
• Public, private and nonprofit financial modeling 
• Understanding the pro forma operating statement structure 
• Property valuation and capitalization rates 
• Brownfield redevelopment phase structure and liability 
• Request for qualification/proposal process

Instructors:

Robin Scott Hunden
President 
Hunden Strategic Partners

Mr. Hunden, ISHC, offers extensive experience in managing the feasibility and implementation of major real estate projects as well as organizational development. Since launching Hunden Strategic Partners, he has been a sought after consultant for dozens of hotel, convention, mixed-use entertainment and retail projects as well as other tourism and economic development projects and master plans. He also has experience moving organizations to a position of focus and action through strategic planning initiatives.

Robert M. Lewis, AICP, CEcD
Principal and President 
Development Strategies

Bob directs economic research and planning projects at Development Strategies, based in St. Louis. He joined the Development Strategies team in 1978 after two years working for the St. Louis County Department of Planning. He was named president in 2000 and became the largest stockholder in 2007. The focus of his professional work is analyzing the market, economic, and organizational forces that influence urban planning, economic growth, and real estate development. His consulting services typically yield strategic recommendations for clients seeking to maximize economic value. 

Deborah McGill Smith, CEcD
Industrial Services Team 
EGS Commercial Real Estate, Inc

Deborah recently joined EGS Commercial Real Estate, Inc. in Birmingham Alabama as a member of the Industrial Services Team. EGS is a Cushman & Wakefield alliance member. Having spent the past 17 years in economic development, she began her career at the Central Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission where she worked on grant projects and with economic development efforts. She was the first Economic Development Director in the City of Prattville, Alabama and was responsible for creating the city's first economic development strategic plan. 

Accommodations/Training Location:

Sonesta Philadelphia
1800 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 561-7500

IEDC Room Rate: $155 single/double 
Cut-off Date: June 24, 2015