ULI Minnesota's Market Council and Resilient Communities Council hosts joint meeting!

April 20, 2023

Thank you to all council members who attended ULI Minnesota’s first joint council event - bringing together our Market Council and Resilient Communities Council for a half day deep dive into the "Tools to Navigate the Changing Real Estate World: Repositioning Existing Projects, Innovative Funding Solutions, and Creative Cost-Saving Strategies".

We appreciate the time and energy our council chairs John Breitinger , Roseanne Hope from our Market Council, and Martha Faust and Colin Oglesbay from Resilient Communities Council for making this event a success!?Together, they hosted a not to miss ULI council session filled with amazing panels of experts including:

Repositioning Office to Residential: Lessons Learned?

A big thanks to A. Sean O'Gorman Jr. and Bill Baxley for joining us to discuss Gensler建筑设计事务所 's work on repositioning office to residential.?

Innovative Development Solutions: Modular Construction

We thank Dean Dovolis, AIA ( DJR ), Stephani Sundry ( RISE Modular ), and Mark Lucas ( RISE Modular ) for sharing their expertise and insights on how modular construction has become an innovative solution for developing housing, commercial and mixed use properties.?

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District-Level Funding Solutions: Weathering the Real Estate Market

We also heard from a experts who have experiences in guiding districts-level funding and how they can best weather the market changes. Thank you to Jon Commers ( Visible City ), Erin Lonoff ( HR&A Advisors ) and Catherine Malmberg Dannenbring (Rochester DMC/EDA, Destination Medical Center (DMC) ). ?

?Learn more about ULI Minnesota's five local product councils, here.