Commercial real estate owners, developers and brokers are invited to submit their best properties for consideration in a free listing for the annual Small Business Times Honor Roll of Prime Leasable Commercial Real Estate.
For the first time, properties can be submitted online at www.biztimes.com/primeleasablespace
The Honor Roll is a directory of prime office, industrial and retail sites with space for lease in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Walworth, Racine, Kenosha, Washington, Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties.
The best sites will be selected by the SBT editorial staff and will be featured in the Honor Roll, which will be published in the SBT Commercial Real Estate & Development Book. The publication will be unveiled Thursday, Nov. 8, at the SBT Commercial Real Estate & Development Conference.
In addition to the Honor Roll, the publication will include exclusive market research, interviews with real estate experts and an updated SBT Municipal Development Guide.
The conference will take place at the Italian Community Center.
The theme for this year’s conference will be "Back to the City." The breakfast event will explore the demographic factors that are driving more people to move back to urban settings and will examine the best practices of successful downtowns.
The annual conference is presented by SBT in conjunction with the Robert B. Bell Real Estate Program of Marquette University and the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin (CARW).
This year’s panel of expert speakers will provide insight about the rebirth of urban commercial real estate markets from a variety of perspectives. The panelists will include:
Jill Bensley, founder and president of J.B. Research Co. of Ojai, Calif. Bensley is a consultant who provides research and analysis for commercial real estate projects such as arts, entertainment, cultural, retail, residential, industrial, office, hotel, restaurant and recreational developments across the nation.
Afshin Ghazi, founder and president of The Ghazi Company, a Charlotte, N.C.-based commercial real estate development company that plans to build a $120 million mixed-use development with 200 condos, a 175-room boutique hotel and 100,000 square feet of entertainment, restaurant and retail space in downtown Milwaukee.
Tony Smith, practice leader at S. B. Friedman & Company, a specialized real estate and development advisory firm based in Chicago. Earlier this year, Smith and the Friedman team completed a strategic analysis of downtown projects for the Milwaukee Department of City Development.
Brian Vandewalle, founder and president of VandeWalle & Associates, a Madison consulting company that has opened an office in Milwaukee. Vandewalle created various economic development and downtown revitalization and master plans for several Wisconsin communities and has been hired by the City of Milwaukee as a consultant to create its City Strategic Economic Development Plan.
The conference will be emceed by Professor Mark Eppli, Ph.D., chair of the Robert B. Bell Real Estate Program at Marquette. Opening remarks will be provided by Richard "Rocky" Marcoux, commissioner of the Milwaukee Department of City Development, and Sandi Anderson, president of the CARW.
The annual conference is intended to provide insight for people and companies with interests in the commercial real estate industry. More than 400 people, including Realtors, developers, brokers, architects, contractors, subcontractors, environmental experts, engineers, financial experts, municipal planners, attorneys and others, attended last year’s conference.
The conference also will include the presentation of the Robert B. Bell Best Public Partner Award to a local government official who has been an advocate for commercial real estate development.
To view an online registration form for the SBT Commercial Real Estate & Development Conference, visit http://www.biztimes.com/biztimes/CREfaxForm.pdf.
