Annual Fall Conference Focused on Rebranding Communities
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On November 19, the Real Estate Center and the Chaddick Institute hosted a conference called "Reinventing Community: Branding, Rebranding and Economic Development". The program opened with an overview of branding practices from two keynote speakers: Claudia Sieb of Sieb Org. and Carl Wohlt of Wohltgroup with a question/answer session moderated by The Urbanophile blogger, Aaron Renn. A few takeaways:
- Brand promises must be real, tangible benefits that can be delivered to the buyer. These promises are based on unquestionable facts about the business and its services, and these promises cannot be broken.
- Branding is a promise; never promise what you can't deliver.
- Municipalities must think of places as products in order to manage the brand.
- Brands have human-like qualities that audiences can identify with--and for which they feel an unmistakable connection.
 Claudia Sieb with Susanne Cannon, Director of The Real Estate CenterFollowing the keynote presentations, attendees participated in two small-group breakout sessions of their choice.  Participants sign up for breakout sessions
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View the full program here.
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SIOR Chicago Chapter Scholarship Recipients
| Since 1984, the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)-Chicago Chapter and the SIOR Foundation have awarded scholarships with the goal to recognize and reward outstanding academic performance in business and real estate courses and to expose recipients to career opportunities and internship programs available within the Chicago real estate community.
DePaul real estate students are eligible to apply for the Cynthia L. Bischof Memorial Scholarship from the SIOR Chicago Chapter along with the SIOR Chicago Chapter Scholarship both in the amount of $3000.
 This year's recipient of the Cynthia L. Bischof Memorial scholarship was MBA student, Yun Tong, and the winner of SIOR Scholarship was MBA student, Nick Brinker.
Both Yun and Nick are eligible to attend SIOR-Chicago Chapter business meetings, as long as they remain in the academic program. They will also attend the SIOR Holiday Luncheon on December 3rd at the Glen View Club.
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CRE Midwest Chapter Luncheon
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Susanne Cannon, the Douglas & Cynthia Crocker Endowed Director of The Real Estate Center, moderated a panel on real estate capital markets for the Counselors of Real Estate Midwest Chapter Luncheon on November 16. Panelists discussed current conditions in their respective sectors and offered forecasts for the future. The panelists were: Breck Hanson, Associated Bank Jim Postweiler, Jones Lang LaSalle A.G. Seifert, Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers Mark Witt, Transwestern Investment Co. 
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| REC Launches Evening CPE Construction Project Management Program |
Everything a real estate professional needs to know about construction project management
The Real Estate Center at DePaul University designed this unique, three-course evening program for real estate brokers, investors, property and asset managers, lenders, developers, junior construction managers, architects and engineers whose job performance will improve from their ability to grasp the fundamental principles and practices of construction project management.
Courses should be completed in the following order:
PROFESSIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE--MEANS AND METHODS
Dates: Thursday Evenings,
January 27-February 24
Class does NOT meet February 17
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Instructor: Neil Pendleton, Managing Director, Project Management Team at CB Richard Ellis
Location: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson
Fee: $350
REGISTER Now. (Registration closes Jan. 24th. We do not offer day-of registration.)
Note: This course is a prerequisite for Construction Cost and Time Management
CONSTRUCTION LAW & CONTRACTS 
Dates: Thursday Evenings,
March 31-April 28
Class does NOT meet on April 21
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Instructor: Eric Berg, Esq. has more than 20 years of experience in construction law in both litigation & transactional work.
Location: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson
Fee: $350
REGISTER Now. (Registration closes March 28th. We do not offer day-of registration.)
CONSTRUCTION COST AND TIME MANAGEMENT
Dates: Thursday Evenings, May 12-June 9
Class does NOT meet on June 2
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Instructor: Neil Pendleton, Managing Director, Project
Management team at CB Richard Ellis
Location: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson
Fee: $350
REGISTER Now. (Registration closes May 9th. We do not offer day-of registration.)
Note: Professional Project Management--Methods & Means is a prerequisite for this course.
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DePaul MBA Students Receive CREW Chicago Scholarship
| CREW Chicago annually awards one or two scholarships in the amount of $3,000 for graduate and undergraduate students majoring or concentrating in real estate, construction, facility management, architecture, urban planning, real estate law, land economics, real estate appraisal or related real estate fields.
The scholarships are primarily awarded on the basis of academic excellence and are intended to help qualified students pursue an education that will lead them into productive careers in commercial real estate.
This year, two DePaul MBA students received the scholarship: Katherine Elliot and Abigail Brzezinski.
Katherine Elliot and Abigail Brzezinski
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Join the Conversations on the Real Estate Center Social Networking Websites
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You no longer have to wait for our monthly newsletter to be up to date with the Real Estate Center. The Real Estate Center has recently joined the social networking movement on both Facebook and LinkedIn. Consider joining these groups to receive up to the minute information about the Real Estate Center.
 
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| Endowment Donors | | Douglas & Cynthia Crocker
George L. Ruff
Michael J. Horne Education & Healthcare Assistance Foundation
Charles H. Wurtzebach
Studley Inc.. Jacque
Ducharme Faculty Fellow Fund
Robert Weitzman Endowed Scholarship
Kenneth McHugh Endowment Fund
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