Thursday’s at 4pm ULI Chicago members convene on Zoom for our Members-Only “Front Stoop Series”.  Commercial real estate professionals join together for a candid conversation about current industry issues, and have the ability to ask questions and gain insight on what industry leaders are seeing. 

Read below and hear what members key-takeaways have been from some of our previous discussions.

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Renovation & Development in Entertainment Districts
October 8, 2020
A Conversation With: Eric Nordness, Managing Principal, Marquee Development LLC
Blake Milburn, Director of Design & Construction, Marquee Development LLC
Drew Johnson, Assistant Director, Investments, Marquee Development LLC
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Finding Space in Uncertain Times
September 10, 2020
A Conversation With: Ben Helphand, Executive Director, NeighborSpace
Olga Bautista, Community Planning Manager, Alliance for the Great Lakes
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Hospitality: The Road to Recovery
August 27, 2020
Conversation Led By: Craig Foreman, Vice President, PGIM Real Estate
Nate Sahn, Executive Vice President, CBRE Hotels
Terry Dammeyer, President and CEO, Investments and Development, White Lodging Services
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Housing Policy in a Pandemic
July 23, 2020
Conversation Led By: Esther Sorrell, Assistant Commissioner, City of Chicago, Department of Housing
Daniel Kay Hertz, Policy Director, City of Chicago, Department of Housing
Paul Williams, Policy Analyst, City of Chicago, Department of Housing
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Navigating Capital Markets Disruption
July 16, 2020
Conversation Led By: Jeffrey Altenau, Executive Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield
David Bitner, VP, Americas Head of Capital Markets Research, Cushman & Wakefield
Thomas Sitz, Executive Director, Cushman & Wakefield
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What About the Suburbs?
June 25, 2020
Conversation Led By: Mark Hamilton, Partner, Hamilton Partners
Matt Nix, Principal, REVA Development Partners
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Density & Healthy Cities
June 18, 2020
Conversation Led By: Jacques Sandberg, Vice President, Affordable Housing, Related Midwest
Dr. Rachel Weber, Professor, Department of Urban Planning & Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Senior Housing in the COVID Era
June 11, 2020
Conversation Led By: Matthew Phillips, Executive Vice President, Senior Lifestyle
Adan Kaplan, CEO and Founder, Solera Senior Living
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Healthy & Resilient Buildings in the Age of COVID
June 4, 2020
Coversation Led By: Mary Ludgin, Senior Managing Director & Director of Global Investment Research, Heitman LLC
Billy Grayson, Executive Director, Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance, ULI – the Urban Land Institute
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Multifamily: Today Vs. Tomorrow
May 28, 2020
Conversation Led By: Jason Koehn, President, Albion Residential and Julie Heigl, Assistant Vice President, Waterton
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Small Businesses, Big Changes
May 21, 2020
Conversation Led By: Viktor Schrader, Economic Development Director, Oak Park Economic Development Corporation, Martin Sorge, Executive Director, Uptown United and Business Partners, and Ginna Ryan, Principal, Mauge, Inc,
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Open Air Retail in the Age of COVID-19
May 14, 2020
Conversation Led By: John Hendrickson, President – Midwest, Brixmor Property Group
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A Lender’s View of the World
April 30, 2020
Conversation Led By: Kim Liautaud, Managing Director, Head of U.S. Commercial Real Estate, BMO Harris Bank & Peter Malecek, Senior Vice President – Real Estate Market Executive, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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The Space Race: Home Office or Work Office
April 23, 2020
Conversation Led By: Kyle Kamin, Executive Vice President, CBRE, Inc. & Drew Nieman, Executive Vice President, Riverside Investment & Development
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Watch your email each Friday for information on the next weeks Stoop Series. We hope you will join us!