Real Estate Development

• Fall 2009 Lecture Series

  Next Lecture: Wednesday, December 2, 6:15pm
  Adèle Naudè Santos, FAIA
  MIT School of Architecture and Planning | Professor and Dean

• Join Team Maryland To Compete And Win The 2010 Uli-Hines Prize

  Want to be on a winning team and take home $50,000 your trouble? Faculty in all the disciplines are committed to working with one or more teams to earn Maryland the $50,000 top prize in the 2010 National ULI-Hines Competition-- the largest Design and Development Competition in the country.

• 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.
  

• New Center for the Use of Sustainable Practices (CUSP) Announced

  Using LEAFHouse as a pilot project, the new Center for the Use of Sustainable Practices (CUSP) was formed.  CUSP joins the National Center for Smart Growth as a sister center, in order to explore research, design, education and outreach activities related to sustainable practices at the scale of the building, the community, and the city. 

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• Dennis Jankiewicz Receives 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award

  Dennis Jankiewicz, B.Arch '73, has been awarded the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award.

• 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.

• Spring 2009 Lecture Series

  Next Lecture: Friday, May 8, 7:00pm
  Greg Pasquarelli: SHoP Architects
  Architecture Building Auditorium
  

• 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).

• Spring Commencement 2009

  Thursday, May, 21, 7:00pm - Comcast Center (University)
  Friday, May 22, 9:30am - Samuel Riggs Alumni Center (School)

• 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.