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2015 Runstad Fellows Presentation, Jan 20th

The 2015 Runstad Fellows will present their research findings from their travels to South America at the January 20th NAIOP breakfast.

Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 7:00 a.m.
Location: Four Seasons Seattle
99 Union St, Seattle, WA 98101
Cost: $50 Members, $70 Non-Members

Register online for the January breakfast meeting today.

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The 2015 UW Runstad Fellows traveled to three South American cities—Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Curitiba—to explore the challenges of affordable housing, public spaces and social cohesion.

Hear lessons learned abroad as we seek to understand how public and private investments together can contribute to creating healthy, affordable and livable cities in the growing Puget Sound metropolitan region.

Presenters:

  • Joe Ferguson – Principal, Lake Union Partners
  • Maiko Winkler-Chin – Executive Director, Seattle Chinatown-International District Preservation and Development Authority
  • Kate Simonen – Architecture, University of Washington
  • Thaisa Way – Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
  • Yeon Soo Lee – UW Runstad Center 2015 Graduate
  • Andrew Hunt – UW Runstad Center 2015 Graduate, The Wolff Company

 

 

2015 Runstad Fellows Presentation, this Monday Jan 11th!

2015 Runstad Fellows Event:  Please join us!

 MONDAY JANUARY 11TH 5:30PM

Gould 100

please RSVP: bestm2@uw.edu

  • Video Presentation
  • Discussion
  • Socializing

See below for more details,

 Kate Simonen & Thaisa Way (UW)
Joe Ferguson and Maiko Winkler-Chin (Seattle Professionals)
Andrew Hunt and Yeon Soo Lee (UW MSRE 2015 Graduates)

 Event Details

As the 2015 Runstad Affiliate Fellows, we would like to invite you to a presentation and discussion of our project on cities, housing, and public space as a means to further our discussions on a CBE project on equity and the urban landscape. The Runstad Travel Research has informed current and evolving research at UW including the CBE urban project being proposed for next year. For this event, the 2015 Runstad exploration will be introduced and connections drawn among the various urban projects we are pursuing as a college, and will include 2016 Runstad Affiliate Fellows. Please invite your colleagues in CBE and lets make this a robust and raucous conversation…

Risks and Collaborations: Runstad Observations and CBE Research

How might public and private investments together contribute to creating healthy, affordable, and livable cities in our growing metropolitan region?  The 2015 Runstad Center Affiliate Fellows visited three cities in South America—Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, and Curitiba—to explore the challenges of affordable housing, public spaces, and social cohesion. Starting with a short film on our exploration created by Jose Carlos Teixeira, please join Runstad Fellows Joe Ferguson and Maiko Winkler-Chin and our special guests in a panel discussion exploring how our Fellow’s travel-study shaped how we envision the role of private and public development in efforts to foster a better future for Seattle – its people and its environment.

Monday January 11 at 5:30 pm in Gould 100 

  • 5:30    Gather and enjoy (light snacks provided)
  • 5:45  Runstad Center Introduction/Fellows description/2015 Video
  • Discussion of impact and intention
  • Discussions of CBE project Seattle: The Just and Healthy City
  • 7:00   Wrap up and adjourn

DRAFT CBE proposal: Seattle: The Just and Healthy City

Seattle’s explosive growth is transforming the city’s physical landscape and social fabric.  The city has had a long reputation as a socially progressive place but its current trajectory is one of increasingly inequitable access to housing, open space and mobility. Citizens of color and limited economic means are being excluded from the city and homelessness has reached crisis levels.  At the same time, many citizens resist policy changes intended to counter this trend.

The University of Washington College of Built Environments is uniquely positioned to tackle the vexing problem of increasing social inequity given its expertise in urban history and theory, metrics and analysis, policy, design, transportation, real estate and construction.  Urban@UWCBE proposes a two-year, multi-faceted agenda to investigate this problem and offer a range of potential strategies to address it. The project also provides a platform to elevate a cross disciplinary, action-oriented dialogue within the College and with city officials, activists and the citizenry at large.

 We propose to focus the 2016–2017  academic year on a series of internal discussions in seminar format that would facilitate the planning and construction of the following year. This seminar would engage CBE faculty with invited guests as determined by the faculty. By May 2016, participating faculty would produce a plan for the 2016–2017 academic year including multiple audiences in lectures and discussions as well as coordinated courses and studios drawing students from across the college. The results of this effort will take the form of design and policy proposals as well as publications in both the popular press and peer reviewed journals.

MSRE Info Session – Jan 20th

Interested in applying to the Master of Science in Real Estate program? 

The Runstad Center will be holding an information session in downtown Seattle on January 20th.  Please join us for an informal conversation about the MSRE program and application process.  Current students and alums will be on hand to speak about their experiences in the program as well as Runstad faculty and staff.  This is a great chance to get answers to your questions and probe the opportunities that real estate can add to your education and career.
Please RSVP: bestm2@uw.edu

Wednesday, January 20th
6 pm
520 Pike, 12th Floor Auditorium

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A conversation with Blake Eagle: January 19th, 6 pm

The History of Institutional Real Estate Investment: a 40-Year Perspective
A Conversation with Blake Eagle
Tuesday, January 19th 
Gould Hall room 110
6 pm
Please RSVP: bestm2@uw.edu

Blake Eagle will be making a presentation on Tuesday, January 19th from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm (Room 110-Gould Hall) to the RE 598 portfolio management class on the History of Institutional Real Estate Investment:  A 40-Year Perspective. Blake will cover the significant events impacting the institutional real estate asset class from the 1970s to early 2000s. The first hour (plus or minus) will be devoted to Blake’s presentation with a question and answer period to follow.

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This presentation is a unique opportunity for Runstad and Foster students, faculty, board members, staff and others affiliated with the real estate and business programs to hear an industry pioneer’s perspectives on the institutional real estate asset class.  Through Blake’s vision and involvement over the years in a multitude of roles, he has helped to shape the institutional real estate investment management industry. To have the opportunity to hear firsthand about these events from the perspective of an industry legend should not be missed.

 

Local experts sum up Seattle’s neighborhoods in 2015

Recently the neighborhood blog Curbed surveyed real estate luminaries on their highs and lows of Seattle real estate development in 2015.  Our own Peter Orser, Center Director, and Matthew Gardner, Runstad Center Advisory Board member, were included in the group of local experts that were interviewed.  Read the three part series here:

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Happy Holidays!

The Runstad Center would like to wish everyone a very merry holiday and a happy new year!

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The #1 reason to study real estate at the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies…

construction#1 Fourth rated city for real estate growth

Is there any better City in America to study Real Estate?  Seattle is in the middle of a real estate boom underpinned by extraordinary growth from “new industry” companies like Amazon, Costco, Starbucks and Microsoft—not to mention other corporate traditional giants like Boeing. New commercial high rises are going up, one on the books for over 100 stories, at least 52 cranes on the horizon, and a commitment from the Mayor to build 50,000 new apartment units in the next 15 years, 20,000 of which are to be “affordable”.  We have the most sustainable building in the world just completed by the Bullitt Center and many other examples of how sustainability (a core value of the program) is working in our current environment. Talented real estate leaders with an advanced degree are in demand!

Find out 9 more reasons here!

The 3rd Annual Real Estate Symposium

Peter Orser shares his thoughts on the 3rd Annual Real Estate Symposium…

The Runstad Center just completed its 3rd annual joint Real Estate conference with the Foster School on December 8th.  The program featured Robert Feldstein the Director for policy and innovation for Mayor Ed Murray.  He spoke eloquently on the progress the City is making on tough policy issues like Affordable Housing having just published the long awaited HALA report and transportation improvement opportunities just funded through the almost Billion Dollar transportation levy which passed with a huge 64% majority.

From there we spent the morning with two extraordinary panels, one on affordable housing opportunities and the other on Transportation issues.  The panels were designed to bring some disruptive thinking to the advancement of these issues- or as one panelist put it, “throw some dynamite into the log jam”—and they certainly did that and more.

Over the next 25 years we expect 400,000 new jobs and 500,000 new residents within a City area of 84 square miles.  A daunting challenge, but it appears we have the willingness and the brain power to meet this challenge while at the same time respecting the character and natural environment that has made Seattle a top economic driver in the first place.  It was a honor to host such a provocative event, but that’s what a University should do and the Runstad Center clearly is taking that mission to heart.