Retail Real Estate – Sunrise or Sunset? Finding Opportunities Amongst the Doomsayers
June 24, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Continental Breakfast 7:45 a.m. — Program 8:15 a.m.
Maggiano’s Little Italy
111 West Grand, Chicago
REIA Member $35 — Non-Member $50
Valet Parking Available
“The Vacancy Rate for Retail Properties Clinging to its Highest Levels….” – Crain’s Chicago Business, April 2010
“Real Estate: Empty Storefronts Multiply, Retail Rents to Slip Further….” - Orlando Sentinel, March 2010
“Commercial Real Estate is a Disaster in the Making…” – Wealth Daily, January 2010
“Commercial Real Estate Losses will be the #1 Factor that Drives Banks into Failure This Year” – Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman, March 2010
Is it time to buy that mountain cabin in Montana and move the family in with a stockpile of food before the world crashes around our collective retail real estate heads? Or is now the time to dig in and find new deal opportunities?
Join us for a lively discussion where we will separate fact from fiction in the media hype. Our expert panel of retail real estate professionals, representing a cross section of development, leasing, lending and investment brokerage, will bring an inside perspective to what is really happening in the market and where the opportunities are for deal making.
“Real Estate: In a Good Market You Can Make Money – In a Bad Market You Can Make Wealth!” – Real Estate Axiom, Mike Christie
Moderator: Michael Christie, Heritage Realty Partners, Inc.
Panel of Experts:
Developer: Richard Filler, President & COO, Harlem Irving Companies
Leasing: Ed Zifkin, Zifkin Realty
Lender: Jeff Bucaro, Vice President, Aries Capital LLC
Investment Broker: Bruce Harris, Director, National Retail Group, Marcus & Millichap
Thank you for supporting our 2010 Sponsors & Patrons
Patrons: Aries Capital LLC • Cray Kaiser, Ltd.
Chicago Title Insurance Co. • Bryan Cave, LLP
Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC • Pathway Senior Living, LLC • Plante & Moran, PLLC
Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP • Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon
The Perry Group • Mauge, Inc.
Media Sponsor: Chicago Real Estate Daily.com POWERED BY CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS