New Sustaining Sponsor: Associated Bank
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Associated Bank recently joined The Real Estate Center as a Sustaining Sponsor with a three-year commitment of support. Breck F Hanson, pictured at right, Executive Vice President and Head of  Commercial Real Estate at Associated Bank, and Gregory T Warsek, Senior Vice President/Regional Manager of the Commercial Real Estate Division made the decision in December to partner with The Real Estate Center and identified Warsek to be the Center's main contact. Warsek has been with Associated Bank more than nine years. In his current role as Senior Vice President and Regional Manager in the Commercial Real Estate Division, he manages the Chicago and St. Louis offices, and leads a team of commercial real estate professionals focused on delivering high-quality, customized real estate financing programs to clients.  Warsek, pictured left, is a valuable addition to the team of Sustaining Sponsors who serve as the Executive Committee and govern the direction of The Center. Warsek says, "Associated Bank is very proud and excited to be a new sustaining sponsor for The Real Estate Center at DePaul. I look forward to the opportunity to help guide the growth and direction of The Real Estate Center." Associated Bank's commercial real estate division is headquartered in Chicago and offers a full range of real estate financing programs tailored to the middle market in a high-touch, customer-centric manner. Associated Bank is part of Associated Banc-Corp (NASDAQ: ASBC), a diversified bank holding company with total assets of $23 billion and more than 288 banking offices throughout Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Graduate Students Receive Scholarships to Attend ICSC Conference
| For the second consecutive year, The Real Estate Center awarded scholarships to six graduate students who will attend the ICSC conference in Las Vegas on May 22-25. These scholarships cover travel expenses to and from the conference, hotel fees and registration and membership costs for each student. This is a tremendous opportunity for students to engage and network with industry professionals at one of the biggest real estate conferences in the country.
This year's recipients are:
Tim Bextel, MBA Student
Kevin Down, MBA Student
Albert Bachleda-Curuś, MBA Student
Hillery Simmons, MBA Student
Yun Tong, MSRE Student
Team Leader: Recent Alum Michael Heaney
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Real Estate Faculty Activities
| The faculty members of the Department of Real Estate maintain public appearances in both academic and professional environments. Recent events include:
- Susanne E Cannon, Chairman of the Department of Real
 Estate, spoke at the AIRE Lunch, Learn & Lead on Tuesday, Jan. 11 at the Rosewood Restaurant to over 150 real estate professionals about Space and Capital Markets.
 Rebel Cole led an International Monetary Fund mission to Beirut, Lebanon and Damascus, Syria to assist the central banks in those countries with procedures for off-site supervision of commercial banks. Also, at the ASSAs, he presented a paper on how deposit insurance improves financial intermediation.
 James D Shilling presented a paper on Jan. 7 at the American Real Estate & Urban Economic Association conference in Denver. The paper is titled REIT Resiliency and Corporate Governance.
- Susanne E Cannon now serves on the Board of Directors for the Community Investment Corporation designed to be the leading force in neighborhood revitalization through innovative financial programs.
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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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Annual Commercial Real Estate Forecast Conference
| The Annual Commercial Real Estate Forecast Conference produced by the Illinois Real Estate Journal returns to the Marriott Chicago for its ninth annual gathering on Jan. 18. The conference remains the longest-running and largest commercial real estate forecast in Chicago.
Like previous forecasts, the event will feature three general session panels:
1. The Big Picture in Focus
2. Legal Issues Impacting Real Estate
3. Financing and Investing
Following these lead panels, there will be numerous breakout sessions focusing on various specialty areas of real estate, which will include downtown office, suburban office, industrial, retail and investment.
Confirmed speakers for the lead panel include Drew Nieman, principal, Colliers International (in his first public speaking appearance since returning from Abu Dhabi and joining Colliers); Steve Schnur, Duke Realty; Keith Stauber, SIOR, regional managing director, Jones Lang LaSalle; Bruce Duncan, president and chief executive officer, First Industrial Realty Trust; and William Rolander, The John Buck Company. Susanne Cannon of The Real Estate Center at DePaul University will moderate the panel.
Other DePaul faculty speakers include Economics Professor, Michael Miller who will open the conference with an economic outlook and Charles Wurtzebach, the George L. Ruff Visiting Professor in Real Estate Studies, who will serve on the financing and investment panel.
Registration for the event is $79. On the day of the event it increases to $109. Registration can be completed here.
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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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