Exhibitor Sponsor List
AECOM
AECOM is a global leader in the integration of engineering, design, and program management services for a broad range of markets, including planning, transportation, facilities, land economics, environmental, logistics, water, and energy. We are leaders in examining, managing and solving complex land-based challenges that arise from profound global change.
Website: www.aecom.com
Aedas
Aedas creates the best architectural design solutions from our 40 offices around the globe in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Our global network provides consultancy services in architecture, interior design, masterplanning, landscape, and urban design. We have a holistic approach to sustainability which shows our care not only for the built environment but also for the societies we live and work within.
Website: www.aedas.com
AIRVAC, Inc.
AIRVAC vacuum sewers are a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative to gravity sewers providing low maintenance and reliable sewage collection. As the industry leader in vacuum sewer system technology, AIRVAC offers vacuum valves, valve pits and vacuum station equipment as well as our expertise in design, construction and operation of vacuum sewage systems. AIRVAC has maintained a singular commitment to excellence that has solidified our position as a trusted brand that produces the highest quality products and services.
Website: www.airvac.com
AMB Property Corporation
AMB Property Corporation® (NYSE:AMB) owns, operates and develops industrial property in key distribution markets of the Americas, Europe and Asia. We serve approximately 2,600 customers in 48 markets with a portfolio of approximately 156.9 million square feet (14.6 million square meters). We invest in industrial real estate at major transportation hubs, with a focus on High Throughput Distribution® (HTD®) facilities designed for customers who require expedited movement of goods. AMB was established in 1983.
Website: www.amb.com
AMERISTAR FENCE PRODUCTS
AMERISTAR is the world's largest manufacturer of high quality, maintenance free, ornamental fencing. Used as a perimeter fence, security fence, for controlled access, homeland security, or simply to enhance the property's appearance we manufacture a specific grade and style for each application need.
Website: www.ameristarfence.com
Arizona State University’s Master of Real Estate Development
Arizona State University’s Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) program is a transdisciplinary graduate degree program offered in partnership with the schools of Law, Design, Business and Construction. This innovative, full immersion program explores the development continuum in its entirety from site selection and analysis through disposition over the course of one academic year (two semesters). As a final capstone, the students work in teams to produce a comprehensive report outlining solutions for a complex high density, mixed use development.
Admissions now open for Fall 2010.
Website: http://mred.wpcarey.asu.edu/
Arup
Arup is a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants providing a diverse range of professional services to clients around the world.
Our US practice has developed into a firm respected both for quality of design and diversity of skills. The strength of 10,000 multi-disciplinary staff worldwide provides our clients access to virtually every engineering, planning, and environmental discipline needed for successful project development. Having all of these disciplines "under one roof" promotes integrated solutions that meet our clients' needs. Arup is the creative force behind many of the world's most innovative and sustainable designs.
Auburn University
Auburn University's Executive Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) Program is a joint venture between the College of Architecture, Design, and Construction and the College of Business. The curriculum consists of 39 credit hours taken over six semesters. The MRED program allow participants to continue their existing professional careers, combining a short-term residential requirement of seven days on campus with an intense distant learning component and a long-weekend field trip each semester.
Website: www.cadc.auburn.edu/soa
Audubon International
Audubon International is a not-for-profit environmental organization dedicated to fostering sustainable communities by educating, assisting, and inspiring millions of people from all walks of life to protect and sustain the land, water, wildlife and natural resources around them. Through Eco-Design & Development Initiative and the Audubon Signature Program, Audubon International works to leverage innovation and best management practices to create models for the proper siting, design, construction, and management of new developments.
Website: www.AudubonInternational.org
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
AvalonBay Communities, Inc. is in the business of developing, redeveloping, acquiring and managing high-quality apartment communities in the high barrier-to-entry markets of the United States. These markets are located in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Pacific Northwest and Northern and Southern California regions of the country. The Company owns, or holds interests in hundreds of apartment communities with over 50,000 apartment homes in these markets. Our team of highly trained associates is dedicated to enhancing the lives of our residents and maximizing return for our stockholders.
Azul de Cortez
Azul de Cortez is an innovative marina and golf community in Baja, Mexico offering investment opportunities for development partners.
Website: www.AzuldeCortez.com
BAR Architects
BAR Architects, a 75-person architecture and planning firm, specializes in creating award-winning mixed-use, residential, hospitality, entertainment, retail and commercial projects throughout the U.S. and internationally. A certified San Francisco Bay Area Green Business with 70% of technical staff LEED accredited, we have designed projects to various levels of LEED criteria and are currently working on several Gold and Platinum projects. Recipient of over 180 awards, BAR's work has been published in design and industry publications including Architectural Record, Urban Land and GreenSource.
Website: www.bararch.com
Barry Swenson Builder
Barry Swenson Builder has been building and providing sustainable, turn-key services for commercial and residential projects in Northern California over the past thirty years. Our portfolio contains over 6 million square feet of commercial space and we are consistently one of the leading construction firms in Silicon Valley. We are now pleased to introduce Landmaker™, a concrete structural system unique in its unprecedented seismic stability and price point starting at $33/ square foot. Call Barry to build!
Website: www.barryswensonbuilder.com
BASF
As The Chemical Company, BASF is a leader in the construction industry. With more than 600 products serving 75 construction product categories, BASF offers the broadest portfolio of products used directly on construction sites, or integrated into other products, to improve the performance of construction projects.
Our offer extends throughout the building envelope from roof to foundation. In wall systems and insulation. Sealants and adhesives. Concrete and asphalt. In bridges and pavement. In windows and doors. HVAC and plumbing.
Interior. Exterior. Cladding. Landscaping. Electronics. Whether new construction, retrofit or historical restoration, BASF chemistry makes a significant contribution to improved performance." Website: www.basf.com
Bedford Investments
Bedford Investments invests in raw land and recreational/agricultural land in the Western United States.
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, a collaborative international practice of sustainable architecture, historic preservation, interior design, urban design and planning, has restored and revitalized significant buildings and sites from New York's Grand Central Terminal and the Empire State Building to mixed-use developments for Kansas City's Power & Light District and Philadelphia's Schmidt's Brewery site.
Contact: Maxinne Leighton
Principal - Business Development/Director of Marketing
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP
New York and Washington, DC
(212) 777-7800
Bohannon Development Company
Bohannon Development Company and David D. Bohannon Organization are family owned real estate firms active in commercial, retail and office development in the San Francisco Bay Area. The third generation of the family is active in a business that traces its roots to the late 1920's. The companies own and operate some 3.5 million square feet of retail, office and industrial space, primarily on the San Francisco Peninsula, including Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo.
Website: www.hillsdale.com
Boomerang Automated Parking Systems
Boomerang Systems, a U.S.-based company that designs, manufactures, and maintains automated car parking and self-storage systems. Boomerang's revolutionary "robotic valet" is the world's first system to park cars on solid concrete slabs, using 50% less space than typical ramp garages, while retaining the fire safety and structural benefits of concrete.
BRE Properties, Inc.
BRE Properties (NYSE:BRE), based in San Francisco, owns and manages apartment communities convenient to its residents' work, shopping, entertainment and transit in supply-constrained Western U.S. markets. BRE directly owns and operates 74 apartment communities totaling 21,485 units in California, Arizona and Washington. The company currently has five properties in various stages of development, totaling 1,526 units, and joint venture interests in 13 apartment communities, totaling 4,080 units. BRE is a real estate investment trust listed in the S&P MidCap 400 Index.
Web site: www.breproperties.com
BrightDoor
BrightDoor offers the only web-based Interactive CRM (iCRM) platform designed exclusively for the real estate industry. Serving as a digital "sales assistant", BrightDoor's software applications consolidate fragmented (and often analog) sales communications into a single, easy-to-manage system. Since 2005, leading developers throughout North America have deployed BrightDoor's online and onsite solutions to generate qualified leads, manage sales team effectiveness, analyze business intelligence, and fuel sales interactions that capture buyer interest and personalize the sales experience.
Website: http://www.brightdoor.com/
Bristol Group
Bristol Group, founded in 1980, is a nationally active real estate investment and development firm based in San Francisco. Since its inception, Bristol has concentrated its activities in three areas: high return value-added investment, development and it's redevelopment; the purchase and development of industrial properties; and complex work outs for major pension funds. Additionally, Bristol has completed land development for approximately 2,500 acres adding value through master planning, obtaining entitlements and resolving infrastructure issues.
Capital and Counties U.S.A., Inc
Capital and Counties U.S.A., Inc. ("C&C") is a real estate investment trust which owns and operates an institutional quality portfolio of retail, office and mixed-use properties located in Northern and Southern California. C&C is headquartered in San Francisco and currently owns fifteen assets totaling approximately 2.6 million square feet. The company has more than 38 years of experience in the U.S. market. Capital and Counties U.S.A. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty International PLC, a UK-listed property company with total assets at June 30, 2009 in excess of $11.5 billion.
Website: http://www.capcount-usa.com/
Carmel Partners
Carmel Partners is a premier national full-service real estate investment company, based in San Francisco. We specialize in acquisition, development, renovation, management of multi-family assets in high barrier of entry markets. Our aim is simple: realize an asset's full value by carefully assessing investment opportunities, then delivering imaginative and innovative development and repositioning plans.
Carmel Partners' has fully integrated in-house construction, development and property management services, which when coupled with our solid investment partnerships, ensure projects are executed impeccably.
Website: www.carmelpartners.net
CB Richard Ellis
CB Richard Ellis, a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is the world's largest commercial real estate services firm.
Chatham Financial
Foreign Currency Exposure. Interest Rate Risk. Accounting Compliance. Debt Valuations. Defeasance. Chatham Financial is the largest independent interest rate and foreign exchange advisory firm serving over 1,000 leading private and public companies worldwide. We consult on thousands of transactions valued at approximately $350 billion every year.
Website: www.ChathamFinancial.com
Cherokee
Cherokee is the leading private equity firm investing capital and expertise in brownfield redevelopment. The firm has invested in more than 525 properties worldwide and currently has more than $1 billion under management.
The company has developed its leadership role in the reclamation of brownfields by applying expertise, creativity and resolve to the sustainable redevelopment of properties after remediation.
The firm's track record was built over 15 years of successfully cleaning up and revitalizing real estate. Our team of experienced real estate and investment professionals, our access to capital and our leadership in the field is evident in the properties we have transformed and the returns we have generated historically. Further, our work has shown that profitability and responsibility go hand in hand.
Website: www.cherokeefund.com
Cisco
Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at: http://www.cisco.com.
Clemson University
Clemson University's Master of Real Estate Development program is a 2-year full-time interdisciplinary degree with required classes in MBA/Finance, Law, Construction Science, Architecture, City & Regional Planning, and Real Estate Development. The program emphasizes master planned and mixed use communities. A proud Founding Sponsor of the SC District Council, all forty students are active ULI members and attend the Fall Conference. We encourage students to become great Place Makers, not just builders of projects.
Website: www.clemson.edu/mred
CMBS.com
CMBS.com, powered by Backshop, is an enterprise software and data company. On software, we provide loan origination, valuation and asset management systems for commercial real estate debt and equity companies. On data, we have all the public data for the entire US CMBS universe and have products for investors in both individual loans and CMBS bonds. Learn more at www.cmbs.com.
Cornell University Program in Real Estate
Cornell's Master of Professional Studies in Real Estate is the most comprehensive professional graduate real estate program available and has produced industry leaders with expertise in many specializations.
Dedicated to applied learning and real world field experience, the program includes study of the principles of real estate, investment and finance, land and project development, asset management and marketing combined with elements of design, engineering, economics, urban planning and law.
For more information, visit www.realestate.cornell.edu.
Dahlin Group
Dahlin Group Architecture Planning is an 140-person firm active in the areas of urban design and community planning, as well as corporate, hospitality, recreational, retail, institutional, and residential architecture. Dahlin Group is also a leader in contributing to charitable housing projects. Founded in 1976, Dahlin Group and its Digital Imaging Studio are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Branch offices are in San Diego, Irvine, and in China Beijing and Hangzhou.
Website: www.dahlingroup.com
Development Planning & Financing Group, Inc.
DPFG is a national real estate financial consulting firm operating in California, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Texas and Florida. We provide customized real estate solutions to builders, developers, lenders and others involved in the real estate industry. Services lines include: Public Financing Vehicles, Development Impact Fees, Redevelopment Districts, Property Tax Appeals, Capital Markets, Asset Management, Lender Services, Cost Recovery Services, Project Management, Fiscal Impact Analysis, and Disclosure Services.
Website: www.dpfg.com
Digital Realty Trust
Digital Realty Trust is a Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: DLR) that owns, acquires, repositions and manages mission-critical datacenters throughout North America and Europe.
DivcoWest
Since 1993, DivcoWest has consistently created value through the acquisition, management and disposition of diverse real estate investments across the United States. Our successful track record has earned the ongoing trust of our investment partners, which include leading pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and high net worth families.
We at DivcoWest take great pride in our organization and in our many long-standing relationships with our investors, tenants, and vendors. We owe all of our success to our people, as they are the catalysts for the delivery of exceptional services to our tenants and for the generation of superior returns to our investment partners. They are also responsible for planting and cultivating the seeds of future prosperity.
Website: www.divcowest.comm
Ehrlich Architects
Ehrlich Architects is internationally recognized for distinctive urban design with an approach that extends the traditions of architectural innovation and the fusion of technology with cultural and environmental sensitivity. The firm has been recognized with eight National AIA awards and recognition as Firm of the Year by the California AIA.
Website: www.ehrlicharchitects.com
Ellis Partners, LLC
Since 1993, the Ellis Partners LLC team has combined deep experience with multi-faceted capabilities and entrepreneurial flexibility to maintain sustained top-tier performance in a wide variety of commercial real estate developments and investments over multiple business cycles. These skills are integrally bound with the firm's dedication to its core values of integrity and high quality and its commitment to delivering outstanding results to its partners, its tenants and its local communities.
Ellis Partners LLC is one of Northern California's largest commercial developers and investors focused on office, retail, industrial and mixed use product types. Since its founding, the firm has acquired and developed assets valued at over $2 billion.
Website: www.ellispartners.com
Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young's Global Real Estate Center brings together a worldwide team with deep experience in providing assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services to help you achieve your potential. The Center anticipates market trends, identifies the implications and develops points of view on relevant industry issues, enabling us to help you meet your goals and compete more effectively.
Gerson Bakar & Associates
Gerson Bakar & Associates is primarily a multi-family investment and property management firm on the West Coast
Greenberg Traurig
Greenberg Traurig (GT) is an international law firm providing clients dedicated, local resources from 28 locations in the Americas, Western Europe and Asia. Our hospitality industry group draws on the experience of 250+ lawyers from our Real Estate Practice and has broad capabilities to counsel clients on matters involving destination resorts, country clubs and golf courses. Our range of related practice experience enables us to offer an integrated approach to serving our clients.
Grosvenor
Grosvenor is a privately owned property group active in some of the world's most dynamic cities. We recognize that our future success as a business is tied to the sustainable growth of the cities in which we have a presence. We have a vested interest in the future shape of the urban landscape and aim to help create attractive and vibrant cities in which people want to live and work.
Website: www.grosvenor.com
Group RCI
At Group RCI, we understand the importance of delivering memorable vacation experiences. Our three key business sectors include vacation exchange, vacation rentals, and global advisory services. We provide the products and services that help support the growth of the leisure real estate industry around the world. We're continually working to stay ahead of the industry and lead the way for our business associates.
Harper Industries
Harper Industries leads the nation in providing environmentally-responsible and cost-effective demolition services for cities addressing redevelopment and blight.
Jay Paul Company
Jay Paul Company is a privately held, opportunity-driven real estate firm based in San Francisco. Founded in 1975, the firm concentrates its efforts on the acquisition, development and management of prime commercial properties throughout California. Jay Paul Company has successfully developed over 6 million square feet of award winning real estate, specializing in large-scale, master planned office campuses featuring world class fitness centers and eco-friendly design elements. Recently completed projects, Moffett Towers and the Summit Rancho Bernardo have achieved LEED Gold certification.
Website: www.jaypaul.com
Kellogg Real Estate Program
The mission of the Kellogg Real Estate program is to prepare students for careers in real estate. As part of this mission, we seek to understand the market forces affecting real estate and to translate that understanding through classes, conferences, speakers, lab courses, and research, to educate students about the challenges faced by real estate practitioners.
Website: www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/realestate
KMD Architects
Since 1963 KMD Architects has combined research, innovative design, and creative vision to stake its place as one of the largest architectural firms in the country. KMD's designs have been built in over 30 states and 15 countries around the world. We serve clients in the worlds of, commercial, retail, healthcare, government, academia, housing, and hospitality. In the past two decades we have won 200 design awards and international design competitions, including over forty awards from the AIA.
Website: www.kmdarchitects.com
Land Architects International
Land Architects International is a multi-disciplinary real estate development consulting firm specializing in the following capabilities:
Expertise
- Planning & Entitlements
- Landscape Architecture
- Golf Course Design
- Market & Financial Analysis
- Branding & Visual Media
- 3D Animation & Motion Graphics
Market Sectors
- Commercial Mixed-Use
- Housing & Communities
- Hospitality, Resort & Golf
- Institutional & Industry
- Health Care & Active Adult
Legacy Partners Residential, Inc.
Legacy Partners has worked for over 40 years building an organization with the resources and depth of experience to become one of the industry's most respected providers of real estate services.
Legacy sets the standard for service, quality and value. We are proud of our heritage as a leading U.S. Real Estate Company, and we look forward to bringing the Legacy Partner's standard of excellence to new residents, clients and partners.
Our family of companies offers a complete range of real estate services investment.
Website: www.legacypartners.com
Lumca, Inc.
Lumca manufactures luminaries and poles with remarkable quality for extraordinary performance. From design, to the choice of materials, to the manufacturing processes, Lumca maintains high quality standards. All of our products are tested and certified at independent laboratories in order to guarantee products designed to last. Tool free access, modular components and custom designs at affordable prices benefits our developers by lowering maintenance costs while maintaining light levels. See us to see the difference.
Website: www.lumca.com
Lutron
About Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
Lutron Electronics Co., Inc, headquartered in Coopersburg, Pa., is the world leader in the design and manufacture of light control solutions for both residential and commercial applications. The company offers a wide variety of light controls, whole-home and whole-building dimming systems, and controllable window treatments. In homes and commercial buildings around the world, Lutron products save energy while enhancing the appearance and atmosphere of any space, from a single room to an entire structure.
Website: www.lutron.com
MacFarlane Partners
MacFarlane Partners is an investment management firm that manages real estate assets on behalf of some of the world's largest pension plans and institutions. Founded in 1987, the firm pioneered the urban investment concept among institutional real estate investment managers in the mid-1990s and today is a leading capital provider for properties that promote smart growth, urban revitalization and sustainability in urban and high-density suburban areas nationwide.
Marcus & Millichap
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services is the largest firm in the U.S. specializing in commercial property sales, financing, research and advisory services. The firm’s professionals are organized by property sector and geographic concentration, and service the needs of the entire marketplace, ranging from private individual investors, private funds and syndicators, to developers and the nation’s most prominent institutional investors. Marcus & Millichap has a tradition of pioneering real estate technology and provides a unique platform for matching buyers and sellers through its real-time marketing system.
Website: www.marcusmillichap.com
MIT Center for Real Estate
MIT's one-year Master of Science in Real Estate Development prepares men and women for key positions in domestic and international real estate. With a course of study that is rigorous, balanced, and grounded in professional practice, the program gives students a comprehensive understanding of real estate theory and practice. Small class size and emphasis on team projects bring together students from many backgrounds and levels of expertise, fostering working relationships that can last long after students graduate.
Website: http://web.mit.edu/cre
NAI BT Commercial
NAI BT Commercial is the market leader for commercial real estate services in Northern California. With over 300 agents and staff in 14 offices, we bring together people and resources to deliver results for our clients wherever needed. Our clients come to us for our deep local knowledge. They build their businesses on the power of our global managed network.
Website: www.naibtcommercial.com
Nearon Enterprises
Nearon Enterprises is a privately-held real estate development and investment company headquartered in Danville, California. We currently own and manage approximately 4.2 million square feet of commercial real estate assets, principally located in California, Utah, and Colorado. Our portfolio includes office, industrial, retail and multifamily assets along with land and mixed-use properties. Our company has the flexibility to look at a wide variety of investment opportunities and enter into innovative deal structures.
Website: www.nearon.com
NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate
The NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, part of the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, was founded in 1967 and is the University's home for professional education programs, industry conferences, and applied research in real estate, construction management, and related fields. The Institute offers two Master of Science degrees-in Real Estate and in Construction Management, affiliated graduate certificates, and non-credit certificates and courses. Also, it houses the NYU REIT Center.
Website: www.scps.nyu.edu/realestate
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) provides strategic consulting, planning, design and construction-phase services for transportation and other urban infrastructure. Through its PlaceMaking group, PB offers comprehensive expertise in regional growth management, land use planning and public policy, sustainable community development, transit-oriented development, urban design, transit architecture and landscape architecture.
Perkins+Will
Perkins+Will, founded in 1935, is an international design powerhouse. With 18 offices across North America and additional locations in London, Shanghai, and Dubai, the firm has completed projects in 49 states and more than 40 foreign countries. Perkins+Will is a leader in sustainable design, with a portfolio that includes more than 100 LEED® Certified projects, including multiple Platinum and Gold Certified buildings and one of the world's first LEED-ND Gold neighborhoods.
Prometheus Real Estate Group
Prometheus Real Estate Group is the largest private owner of multi-family communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The firm's portfolio of approximately 20,000 units is comprised of award-winning properties in the best locations throughout the Western United States. Prometheus specializes in the acquisition, development and property management of high quality residential and commercial properties. For more information visit www.prometheusreg.com
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a financial services leader with approximately $580 billion assets under management as of June 30, 2009, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping approximately 50 million individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, investment management, and real estate services. For more information, please visit www.news.prudential.com
RBF
The RBF experts in planning, civil and environmental engineering, construction management and surveying, work with public agencies, organizations and private development clients to meet the needs of future generations through the principles of sustainable design. For more information please visit our web site at www.RBF.com or contact us at 800-479-3808.
Real Estate Financial Modeling (REFM)
Real Estate Financial Modeling is the premier global provider of Excel-based Financial Models and Video Tutorials specific to real estate development transactions of all types. Through its innovative, learn at your own pace modules, REFM empowers its academic and professional customers with sophisticated pro-forma customization and presentation capabilities, and saves educators valuable teaching time by advancing students' modeling skills outside of the classroom.
REFM also provides customized courses for professional licensing, certification and continuing education, as well as Live Group Training Sessions and Private Consulting Services.
Website: www.realestatefinancialmodeling.com
Reznick Group
We are the accounting, tax, consulting & business advisory firm powering tomorrow by serving the renewable energy industry today. The Renewable Energy Practice offers financial services for PPA providers, ESCOs, independent power producers, investors and lenders nationwide. We are ranked among the 20 largest public accounting firms in the nation, with 1,500 professionals and staff in ten offices nationwide.
Rockwood Capital, LLC
Rockwood Capital, LLC is a private real estate investment company that currently is managing more than $2.7 billion of equity commitments. For the past 17 years Rockwood Capital has been a trusted equity joint venture partner with outstanding real estate entrepreneurs investing and adding value to all types of real estate, including urban and suburban office, research and development, biotech, data center, neighborhood and regional retail, urban and suburban hotel, apartment, condominium, resort and single family property."
Website: www.rockwoodcap.com
RREEF Alternative Investments
RREEF Alternative Investments is the global alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division. RREEF consists of three businesses: Real Estate, Infrastructure and Private Equity. RREEF works with investors to meet a wide range of objectives - from diversification, to preservation of capital, to long-term performance. Named one of the world's largest alternative investments managers in Watson Wyatt's Global Alternatives Survey, June 2009, RREEF has $60.2 billion in AUM as of 30 June 2009.
Website: www.rreef.com
San Francisco Waterfront Partners, LLC
San Francisco Waterfront Partners, LLC (SFWP) is a real estate development firm, focusing on urban infill development and diversified portfolio management. SFWP is focused on the acquisition, historic renovation, development and management of office, retail, hospitality, multi-family and mixed-use projects in the Bay Area. Through innovative and diligent means and methods, SFWP's principals bring over 40 years of experience to its projects and consistently strives toward the success of its clients, partners, employees and the greater community. With uncompromising integrity, our highly experienced and competent team is committed to the rigorous analysis, creative planning and management of development and investment opportunities.
Website: www.pacificwaterfront.com
Sares Regis Group of Northern California and Sares Regis Group
Sares Regis Group of Northern California, and, Sares Regis Group, are developers and managers of commercial and residential real estate in the western United States. They acquire, upgrade and/or develop properties for their own portfolios and investor clients, including raw land, corporate campuses, office buildings, municipal facilities, apartments and residential communities. The companies have acquired or developed over 44 million square feet of commercial properties and 26000 multifamily and residential housing units. Websites: www.srgnc.com & www.sares-regis.com
SB Architects
In nearly 50 years of practice, SB Architects has established a world-wide reputation for excellence in the planning and design of hotel, resort, vacation ownership, multi-family residential and mixed-use projects. Successfully merging nearly five decades of experience with the energy and drive of a second generation of partners, we offer the technical capabilities and world-wide reach of a large firm with the hands-on, design-oriented approach of a boutique practice.
Website: www.sb-architects.com
Seagate Properties, Inc.
Seagate Properties, Inc. is a full service real estate investment and operating company based in San Rafael, California. The company specializes in institutional and private direct equity investments as well as asset and property management in office, industrial, multi-family and mixed-use retail properties.
Seagate focuses on achieving consistent investment objectives by acquiring, renovating, managing and leasing real property located in select urban and suburban markets. For more information about the company, visit the Seagate website at:
Website: www.seagateproperties.com.
Shorenstein Properties LLC
National Real Estate Investor
Shorenstein is one of the country's oldest and most respected real estate organizations active nationally in the ownership and operation of high-quality office properties. Due to its success over many years and multiple real estate cycles, Shorenstein has established its reputation as a creative and knowledgeable investor. The company is privately owned and is headquartered in San Francisco.
Providing Real Property Services
Shorenstein provides asset management, leasing, property management and construction services to the properties in its portfolio through its wholly-owned property services affiliate, Shorenstein Realty Services.
Seamless Integration of Capabilities
The close coordination between the investment, asset management and operating professionals within Shorenstein is the key to Shorenstein's ability to deliver exceptional services to its tenants and exceptional value to its clients and partners. With extensive internal resources and a commitment to excellence, Shorenstein has an unsurpassed ability to address operating issues and to capitalize on investment opportunities.
Sheldon Good & Company
Sheldon Good & Company-America's Real Estate Auctioneer™: the acknowledged leader offering the highest quality in the real estate auction industry since 1965. A Racebrook Portfolio Company, it offers outstanding and sophisticated accelerated marketing programs that deliver maximum returns and superior results to sellers in a timely manner throughout North America.
SKS Investments
SKS invests in and develops commercial and residential real estate properties in Northern California. SKS and its affiliates have acquired, developed and/or repositioned over 1.5 million square feet of office and life science space and over 380 residential units. SKS focuses on complicated projects that involve entitlement, adaptive re-use and other value-added investment opportunities in evolving urban settings. SKS has a keen interest in the positive social and financial impact of both sustainable development in high density transit-oriented corridors and sustainable design, construction and property management practices.
Website: www.sksinvestments.com
The Presidio Trust
The Presidio Trust is a federal agency created by Congress in 1996 to preserve and protect the Presidio of San Francisco. Long a military post, today the Presidio is a National Historic Landmark and a unique urban national park. The Trust seeks to welcome the public, preserve historic buildings through new uses, and create ways for visitors to experience history, culture, and recreation. The Trust was awarded ULI's Global Award for Excellence in 2006.
Website: www.presidio.gov
The Sobrato Organization
The Sobrato Organization is a diversified real estate oriented family business. While most well known as owner of commercial office properties catering to Silicon Valley's technology companies, the firm also owns luxury apartment homes throughout the west coast as well as a global portfolio of marketable securities. The family provides continuous philanthropic support to key non-profits organizations in the local community through its affiliated private foundation, the Sobrato Family Foundation.
Website: www.sobrato.com
Stantec
Stantec Architecture executed Renzo Piano's design for the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. In addition to architectural services, Stantec provides design and consulting services in planning, engineering, surveying, economics, and project management from over 125 locations in North America. Stantec is One Team providing Infinite Solutions.
Sunset Development Company
Bishop Ranch is a premier business address in the San Francisco Bay Area, ideally located in San Ramon to enable easy transit from San Francisco, Berkeley, Fremont, and other Bay Area locations. More than 550 of the world's leading corporations, cutting-edge start-ups and a growing medical and dental segment, they have made their home in this thriving professional business community of Bishop Ranch. Tenants at Bishop Ranch are provided with on-site management, unparalleled infrastructure services, a host of amenities, and an emphasis on personalized service. A focus on quality and attention to detail sets Bishop Ranch apart from other commercial property in the Bay Area.
With 10 million square feet of Class A office space; and 585 beautifully landscaped acres it's a place to grow your business. Call us today to find out more about what makes Bishop Ranch so unique. 925.866-0100.
Website: www.bishopranch.com
SWA Group
SWA Group is an international landscape architecture, planning, and urban design firm. Over the course of its 50-year history, SWA has worked in more than 60 countries and its projects have received more than 600 awards. SWA maintains six studios in the United States, as well as representative offices in China and the UAE.
The Ron Kaufman Companies. LLC
The Ron Kaufman Companies. LLC is a San Francisco commercial real estate development and management firm. We were founded in 1963 and specialized in the rehabilitation and preservation of significant, older, under-utilized buildings long before this method of development became popular.
The Swig Company
"The Swig Company, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is a private investment company with a 70-year history of successful investment, development, ownership and management of commercial real estate properties in major markets throughout the United States. The Company's portfolio includes 9+ million square feet of office properties in select coastal urban markets such as New York, Northern California (San Francisco, Oakland, Downtown Mountain View), and Southern California. The Swig Company commits significant equity capital alongside its partners to ensure strong alignment of interests. The Swig Company leverages its expertise and proven track record as an operating partner into re-positioning opportunities in need of improved operations, management, leasing and capital investment, to produce successful outcomes as evidenced by improved cash flow and increased value. "
Thor Appliance Company
Thor Appliance Company is a leading supplier of compact efficient laundry appliances for apartments, condominiums and loft dwellings. Thor's flagship products include its front loading all-in-one ventless washer dryer combination and stackable APEX washer and ventless dryer set.
One of the few appliance suppliers to earn membership in both the U.S. and Canadian Green building councils, Thor demonstrates its commitment to sustainable development by offering a full line of highly efficient ENERGY STAR rated appliances.
Tishman Speyer
Tishman Speyer is one of the leading owners, operators, developers and investment managers of first-class real estate in the world. We have created some of the world's most recognized landmarks, from the ageless grace of Rockefeller Center, to the leading-edge sustainability of Hearst Tower in New York City, OpernTurm in Germany, and Rochavera in Brazil. We operate in 29 cities, 11 countries, and 5 continents. Since our inception in 1978, we have acquired, developed and operated 320 projects totaling over 115 million square feet and more than 92,000 residential units. We have assembled a property portfolio in excess of US $76 billion in total value across the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. With over 12 years experience in Brazil we are one of the largest residential developers and developed Sao Paulo's first "class AA" international standard office buildings, setting a new quality standard for real estate in the country.
Website: www.tishmanspeyer.com
TMG Partners
Headquartered in San Francisco, TMG Partners is a full-service real estate development company founded in 1984. TMG has developed approximately 17˝ million square feet of office, retail, research and development, for-sale and multi-family residential projects with a portfolio valued well in excess of $3 billion. Experienced management and unique local relationships have been the keys to TMG's 25-year track record, resulting in vibrant projects that add significant long-term value for communities, tenants, and financial partners.
UDR
UDR is a leading multifamily real estate investment trust (REIT) with over 37 years of creating value to shareholders, delivering quality service to its residents and the Company's associates. UDR has a demonstrated history of delivering dependable returns by successfully managing, buying, selling, developing and redeveloping attractive real estate properties in targeted U.S. markets. As of June 30, 2009, UDR owned 44,701 apartment homes and had 1,916 homes under development.
Website: www.udrt.com
UnionBanCal Corporation
UnionBanCal Corporation is a $74 billion-asset financial holding company, at June 30, 2009. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank, N.A., provides financial services to individuals, small businesses and corporations. Since 1995, the bank has provided debt and equity financing for affordable housing throughout the U.S. Its developments serve LMI populations with housing and services for families and individuals with special needs. Union Bank offers banking services to professional real estate investors and developers across the country.
Website: www.unionbank.com
The University of Colorado Real Estate Center
The University of Colorado Real Estate Center is a high-caliber academic program with strong ties to a group of leading industry professionals, the CU Real Estate Council. With the involvement of Council members, the program offers coursework, internships, networking, and job placement assistance for both graduates and undergraduates. The active participation of Council members has assisted the Center to become involved in many activities that impact the University and community, as well as work side by side with ULI, NAIOP, CREW, and other industry leaders. Additionally, in 2002 the CU Real Estate Foundation was created in order to maximize financial returns to the University of Colorado by creating, managing and growing a high income-producing real estate portfolio and to assist the University in the implementation of campus master plans.
University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
The Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development and the Graduate Programs in Real Estate Development in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland offers a unique program that combines academics and practice, professors and practitioners a joint effort to enhance or jumpstart your career in real estate development. The MRED program here at Maryland embraces a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach to real estate education addressing all facets of the industry from planning to property management, finance to construction. As our tag line announces, we are all about "Collaborative Education for a Sustainable Future." We educate our real estate students to develop for a Quadruple Bottom Line concerned not only with the old-fashioned financial bottom line, but more broadly for Economic Viability, Environmental Respect, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Design.
University of Miami
The Master's of Real Estate Development and Urbanism (MRED+U) at the University of Miami is an interdisciplinary one-year graduate program that combines the fundamentals of real estate development with livable community planning and design. The MRED+U Program is designed to provide students with the skills and experience to compete in the evolving world of urban real estate development.
Website: http://arc.miami.edu/
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Consistently ranked one of the world's best business schools, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School is known for experiential learning in leadership and teamwork, superior teaching, innovative research and a collaborative culture. UNC Kenan-Flagler's commitment to developing socially responsible, results- driven leaders distinguishes its programs, which educate people at every stage of their careers. The Real Estate program at UNC Kenan-Flagler provides MBA students with a broad background in all aspects of the real estate industry. Students have taken jobs in real estate investment, finance, development, consulting, investment banking, corporate real estate and in most fields in the real estate industry.
USC Ross Minority Program in Real Estate
The USC Ross Minority Program in Real Estate is a comprehensive educational program in urban real estate finance and development. The 11-day intensive is designed to help professionals sharpen existing real estate development skills, learn new ones, and gain access to an invaluable network. Offering an integrated, practical curriculum, the Ross Minority Program is taught by recognized faculty and real estate industry leaders. Participants leave the program equipped with an understanding of the development process through hands-on experiential learning.
Victor Stanley, Inc.
Victor Stanley, Inc.® is a leading manufacturer of high quality site furnishings (including litter receptacles, benches, tables, ash urns, planters, bike racks, bollards and more) made from recycled steel, recycled plastic and wood. Many thousands of our product installations can be found throughout the USA and Canada and we also export to more than twenty other countries. We look forward to applying our 47 years of manufacturing excellence to your site furnishing requirements.
Website: www.victorstanley.com
Webcor
Over thirty-five years of serving clients such as Oracle, eBay, Lucasfilm and the California Academy of Sciences has secured Webcor's position as a leading builder of large-scale, high-profile projects. Webcor Builders is the largest general contractor in California, by volume, and is ranked 2nd on ENR's list of 100 Top Green Contractors in the Nation.
Website: www.webcor.com
ZETA
Today's building industry is dramatically impacted by the increasing cost of energy, inefficient building methods and the high cost or unavailability of capital. As a result, many forward-thinking developers and public agencies are seeking new options to build energy efficient, cost effective and highly durable buildings, while minimizing holding costs through reduced construction timeframes. ZETA delivers a unique solution to meet the needs of these market leaders.
ZETA produces net zero energy multifamily housing and mixed-use structures for sustainable communities, focusing on urban infill, transit-oriented development, public land development and educational campuses. ZETA's precision-built structures, produced in our clean-tech off-site production facility, exceed the performance of site built at no additional cost while minimizing resources, waste and CO2 emissions. ZETA is part of the solution for energy independence and climate change. We deliver the next generation of housing and communities today.
We invite you to join us in the growing market for zero-energy and high-performance buildings. Together, we can transform the conventional method of construction to a technology-driven model that meets the demands of the future.
Website: www.zetacommunities.com
