Real Estate Development

• MAPP Spring 2013 Commencement Address

  John R. Griffin, Secretary, Maryland Department of Natural Resources gives MAPP Spring 2013 Commencement Address

  
  
  

• MAPP March 2013 e-Newsletter

  The latest issue of the The University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation monthly e-newsletter should be in your mailbox now! If you have not received it, check it out here!

• A Conversation and Book Signing with Gary D. Rappaport - NEW DATE

  Rescheduled Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013
  Lecture    6:15 – 7:30 pm; Book Signing    7:30-8:30pm
  School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Auditorium

• Gerrit Knaap stresses the need for more transportation funding at Annapolis summit

  URBAN PLANNING PROFESSOR GERRIT KNAAP CALLS FOR “INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS” TO ADDRESS MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION FUNDING SHORTAGE

• UMD Alumna Rebecca Lewis Honored

  Congratulations to 2011 Ph.D. alumna and Smart Growth Center affiliate Rebecca Lewis for receiving the Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning!

• RESCHEDULED LeFrak Rosenbloom Lecture: Is Perfect the Enemy of Good?

  RESCHEDULED
  Talk: Tuesday, Feb. 5th, 2013 8:00 pm
  Architecture Building, Auditorium 0204
  Seminar: Wednesday, Feb 6 9:00 am
  Architecture Building, Dean's Conference Room 1213

• Redevelopment Plan for the Gasholders Site Presentation in St. Petersburg, Russia

  St. Petersburg Russia | Summer Studio 2012
  Presentation, Auditorium
  October 24, 2012, 6:00 PM
  Reception to Follow 

• Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Kibel Gallery Lecture - Ruth Adler Schnee

  Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Kibel Gallery Lecture
  October 19th- 12:30-1:45 pm
  UMD KIbel Gallery- Lunchtime 
  Lecture by Ruth Adler Schnee
  "Courage: the key factor in every form of the creative and artistic process"

• GLOBAL MAPP - Study Abroad 2012

  Advancing opportunities for students to break out of the classroom and explore the world is a fundamental mission of the University of Maryland's School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. 

• Fall 2012 Graduate Open House for Prospective Students

  You are invited to attend the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Real Estate Development’s Prospective Graduate Student Open House on Friday, October 5, 2012, at in the Architecture Building Auditorium.

• Fall 2012 Lecture Series: The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture

  Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Gallery Lecture
  Friday, September 21, 2012 | 6:15 pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Lukas Schweingruber Schweingruber Zulauf Landscape Architects, Zurich
  "The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture"
  

• Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Kibel Gallery Lecture

  Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Kibel Gallery Lecture
  September 19, 2012 | 6:15 pm
  Architecture Auditorium - Reception in the Kibel Gallery to follow
  Lecture by TIME[SCAPE]LAB: Brian Ambroziak & Andrew McLellan
  "Confabulatores Nocturni"
  

• Avanti, Tartarughe!

  Whether you birdie, par or bogey, an afternoon on the Maryland links is a great opportunity to connect with alumni and friends of Architecture, Planning, Historic Preservation and Real Estate Development. If you're not a golfer, you can still participate by joining us for dinner.

• New Book - Inspired Innovation: WaterShed at the University of Maryland

  Get your copy of the new book Inspired Innovation: WaterShed at the University of Maryland, which tells the story of the making of the winning entry in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011

• First Certification through "Sustainable Maryland Certified" Program received by Berlin, Maryland

  The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) has recognized the town of Berlin as the first municipality in Maryland to complete its certification through the “Sustainable Maryland Certified” program (SMC)

• 40th Anniversary Celebration - October 12th and 13th, 2012

  Join Dean Cronrath, faculty, alumni, students and friends October 12-13th as we mark the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's 40th Anniversary.

• Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Alaa el-Habashi

  Marvin Breckenridge Patterson Lecture:
  Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 6:00pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Alaa Elwi el-Habashi
  "Community Participation and Conservation:
  Selecting World Heritage Sites in the Arab Region"

• Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Bobbie Kilberg

  ADVANCE Scholar Lecture:
  Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 4:00pm
  Art /Sociology Building | Room 2203
  Lecture by Bobbie Kilberg
  "The Road Ahead: The Technology Industry and the Region's Economic Future"

• AIA Reception in the City of Washington

  Reception for Alumni of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
  Friday, May 18, 2012 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.
  Offices of Suzane Reatig Architecture
  

• Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Dr. Jaafar Chalabi

  Lombardo Lecture:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | 6:15pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Dr. Jaafar Chalabi
  "Move"

• International Night 2012

  International Night Sponsored by NOMAS
  Friday, April 13, 2012 | 6:15 pm
  Great Space
  featuring student and faculty art | live music | international cuisine +
  linear gallery study abroad exhibition
  

• WATERSHED TAKES ROOT AT PEPCO'S ROCKVILLE FACILITY

  Bay-inspired solar house will continue to educate, innovate under new ownership

  “It’s fantastic to know that the house and its mission will live on, that Pepco will carry our torch and build upon what the team had started years ago. It couldn’t go to a better owner,” said Brian Grieb, WaterShed’s Project Manager and Faculty Advisor.

• Admitted Graduate Students Open House - Friday, March 30, 2012

  Friday, March 30, 2012 | 1:30 pm
  Register outside the Architecture Auditorium
  

• Career & Internship Fair 2012

  Architecture, Planning, Preservation, and Real Estate Development
  Career & Internship Fair 2012
  Friday, March 9, 2012 | 1:00 - 5:00 pm
  Great Space in the Architecture Building
  

• Real Estate Development Spring Symposium

  Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development Spring Symposium
  Wednesday, May 2, 2012
  District Architecture Center
  

• MAPP Renovation

  “The goal is to provide our students with the tools they need to work creatively and successfully during their time at Maryland,” says Dean Cronrath.

• Spring 2012 Lecture Series

  Next Lecture:
  Wednesday, February 08, 2012 | 6:15pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Ufuk Ersoy
  "To See Daydreams"

• The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham

  The Collaborative Legacy of Merce Cunningham
  Exhibit on View in the Kibel Gallery 
  January 25, 2012—May 7th, 2012

• Summer Study Abroad Opportunities

  Education around the globe

  Five summer study abroad opportunities are available to students in 2012.

• Linear Gallery Show Opening and Reception

  Interdisciplinary Design and Development Case Competitions

  November 9, 2011 | 6 - 7 pm 
  Linear Gallery
  Ground Floor of Architecture Building
  

• Real Estate Development Lecture: Davor Kapelina

  Real Estate Development Lecture:
  Wednesday, November 02, 2011 | 6:15pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Real Estate Development Lecture by Davor Kapelina
  "Sustainable Building Performance and Energy: Finance + Environment = Sustainability"

• Fall 2011 Graduate Open House for Prospective Students

  You are invited to attend the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Real Estate Development’s Prospective Graduate Student Open House on Friday, November 4, 2011, at 1:30pm in the Architecture Building Auditorium.
  

• Real Estate Development Lecture: Fall 2011

  Real Estate Development Lecture:
  Wednesday, November 02, 2011 | 6:15pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Real Estate Development Lecture by Davor Kapelina
  "Sustainable Building Performance and Energy: Finance + Environment = Sustainablity"

• Fall 2011 Lecture Series

  Next Lecture:
  Thursday, October 13, 2011 | 6:15pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Michael Pyatok, FAIA
  "Design with Equity Affordable and Sustainable Communities"
  

• Architecture Graduate Eric Faughnan Named Academic Advisor of the Year

  MAPP's Eric Faughnan has been awarded Academic Advisor of the Year at the University of Maryland's 16th annual Undergraduate Studies Advising Conference.

• Michael Johnson to give lecture titled Advancing the Structure of Public-Private Partnerships

  Michael Johnson to give the Neomie Colvin Lecture titled "Advancing the Structure of Public-Private Partnership" on Friday, April 29, 2011 from 6:30-7:30pm in the Architecture Auditorium.  Reception to follow at 7:30pm.

• Spring Career and Internship Fair

  The air was filled with excitement at the Career & Internship Fair held in the Great Space at the school on March 11, 2011.

• Students Present Bladensburg Development Proposals to Mayor and Council

  Congratulations to MRED students Adam Stone, Patrick Bloomfield, Eric Walter, and Colin Wattleworth, along with their team collaborators from Landscape Architecture (Kameron Aroom, Zoe Clarkwest, Joyce Kelley) and Historic Preservation (Gilbert Mbeng, Rebecca Lueg, Margaret Prest, Lauren Schiszik) for successfully presenting their interdisciplinary Crossroads Market Square and the Heart of Bladensburg Redevelopment and Design Proposals to the Bladensburg Town Council on March 1st, 2011.

• Student Organization: SoRED

  The Society of Real Estate Development (SoRED), established by 3 MRED students in the Fall of 2008 is a student led group that provides social and real estate oriented activities for MRED students.

• New Faculty Profile

  James Bryan King, AIA, LEED AP is the instructor for a new MRED Course being offered this term:  Corporate Real Estate.

• The Pieces Come Together for WaterShed's Next Phase of Construction

  Maryland's Solar Decathlon team kicks into high gear with the arrival of WaterShed's main house "modules" to the campus construction site. The modules arrived on carriers Friday afternoon from manufacturers in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, and were craned into place. Generously sponsored by Maryland Custom Builders Inc. and ProBuilt Homes, the module arrival marks an anticipated turning point in the construction of WaterShed

• Smart Growth: What is it? Why is it important?

  Sustainable Tuesdays: A Lecture Series about
  Sustainability and the University of Maryland, College Park
  5pm Tuesdays, School of Architecture Planning and Preservation

  Tuesday, March 8, 5pm, Architecture Auditorium

• Re-Envisioning The Heart and History of Bladensburg

  A walk-able town center, diverse restaurants, innovative housing options, and better access to parks, the Anacostia and downtown Washington are all visions of two proposed redevelopment projects for the Market Square area of Bladensburg, MD, created by an interdisciplinary team of students from the University of Maryland. The teams presented their proposals to the Bladensburg City Council and Mayor Tuesday night.

• Terps Make "The Final Four"

  A team of Maryland graduate students have clinched one of four finalist slots in the 2011 Urban Land Institute/ Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, beating out over 160 teams from some of the finest and most prestigious graduate-level programs in the United States and Canada.

• Rescheduled: Architect Daniel Libeskind to lecture Friday April 8, 2011 at 6:15 pm

  Daniel Libeskind, the world-renowned architect of projects like the master plan for the World Trade Center in New York and the Jewish Museum Berlin, will be giving a lecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 6:15 pm.

• MARYLAND'S SOLAR DECATHLON WATERSHED TEAM AWARDED $50,000 GRANT

  The University of Maryland's Solar Decathlon WaterShed team has been awarded a $50,000 grant from Constellation Energy, a Baltimore-based company specializing in energy products and services. Constellation's "E2: Energy to Educate" grants recognize environmental projects that inspire students to use science and technology to address growing energy challenges.

• Architecture, Planning and Preservation Career & Internship Fair

  This key event for students and alumni of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation consists of several opportunities to interact and network with organizations and alumni.

  
  Friday, March 11, 2011, 12:00PM - 05:00PM  Great Space, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

• Thomas Spiegelhalter lecture

  Thomas Spiegelhalter will be lecturing on the topic of "Globally Benchmarked Buildings versus Green Washed Buildings: Taking a Critical Look at the Design, Resource Use, and Performance of Sustainable Buildings and Cities."

• Carl Elefante FAIA makes the Winter 2011 Commencement Address

  TV journalist Tom Brokaw popularized the term "The Greatest Generation" in his 1998 book to characterize those Americans who grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930's, defeated Fascism, Nazism and Imperial Japan in World War II, and afterwards shaped the modern world.  They created a world of unprecedented economic vitality and personal freedom. 

• School Year Kicks Off with Interdisciplinary Annapolis Tour

  On August 25, 80 incoming graduate students in Architecture, Planning, Preservation and Real Estate took a daylong tour of historic Annapolis, MD.

• 2010 Graduate Open House for Prospective Students

  Friday, October 22, 2010
  Architecture Building Auditorium
  1:30pm

• Cronrath Named New Dean of UM School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  David Cronrath has been named the next dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland. He will begin his Maryland post on July 1.

• New Real Estate Review Examines the Business of Sustainable Development

  REAL ESTATE REVIEW | Volume 39:1
  Available now in the Architecture Library
  Edited by Margaret McFarland, Director, Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development

• Senior Housing Design & Development Symposium

  Friday, May 7 – Sunday, May 9
  Architecture Building, Auditorium

• Maryland Finishes in Final Four at National ULI Competition

  Maryland's interdisciplinary student team reached the elite winner's circle in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.

• December Graduates and Award Winners Announced

  Please join us in congratulating our December graduates and award winners.

• Tayler Simpson Wins Colvin Institute Capstone Prize

  Tayler Simpson won the $1,000 Colvin Capstone competition with his presentation, "The Meridian," a mixed-income, mixed-use development located on 14th Street in Washington, DC, between the revitalizing U Street and Columbia Heights neighborhoods. The Capstone was mentored by David Roodberg of Horning Brothers.

• Interdisciplinary Hillman Design and Development Case Competition

  The Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development and Developer, David Hillman, are co-sponsoring an interdisciplinary design and development competition and the winning team will walk away with $15,000.
  

• ARGUS Summer Skills Course

  Mike Daugard will be teaching our summer ARGUS Class which will be held on six Saturdays  from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm beginning July 18 through August 22.
  

• MRED Students Tour National Harbor for Site Visit

  On April 24^th, the Planning Policy, Practice and Politics class took a long awaited site visit to National Harbor. The visit was arranged by Mary Konsoulis and Margaret McFarland and hosted by Leslie Hristov, Associate Property Manager (MRED ‘09).

• MRED Spring Capstone Presentations are a Grand Success

  Eleven students presented a feasibility analysis based on a "real world" development proposal of their making. Three students made summary presentations of their research thesis of a single topic.

• MRED Graduation Award Winners

  Seven graduating Master's of Real Estate Development students are recognized during the School's Spring commencement ceremony.

• UM in the Winner's Circle in National Real Estate Development Competition

  An interdisciplinary team of students sponsored by the Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development has, for the second year in a row, placed Maryland in the top three in the national REIDO Case Competition.

• 2009 Colvin Institute Symposium - Sustainable Development: Smart, Adaptive and Green

  Saturday, May 9, 9:00am
  Architecture Building Auditorium

• Interdisciplinary Team Reaches Finals in National Real Estate Development Competition

  For the second year in a row, a team of students from the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has been selected to advance to the finals of the annual Real Estate Investment and Development Organization (REIDO) Case Competition.

• Interdisciplinary Student Team Top 10 in National Urban Design Competition

  A team of five graduate students from the Planning, Architecture and Real Estate Development programs shares the winner's circle with MIT, Harvard and Columbia at the HINES Urban Design Competition.

• Real Estate Development Program Featured on ICSC Website

  The International Conference of Shopping Centers highlights the Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development on its student homepage.

• MRED Student-Athlete Named to 2008 Allstate-AFCA Good Works Team

  Jordan Steffy, a student in the Master of Real Estate Development program, was recently named to the 2008 Allstate/AFCA Good Works Team (Division I).

• Planning Grad Featured in Real Estate Review

  Elana Messner, a 2007 graduate of the Urban Studies and Planning Program, has been published in the spring 2008 edition of Real Estate Review.

• Real Estate Development Team Wins $15,000 First Prize

  A team of Masters of Real Estate Development (MRED) students win first place and $15,000 at the Second Annual REIDO Real Estate Development Case Competition.

• Baltimore Developer John Colvin Donates $3M to Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development Endowment

  John Colvin, Principal of Questar, Inc., a Baltimore real estate development company, and his wife Karen have provided a $3 million gift that will endow the Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development.