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Breaking Ceilings | Breaking Ground
Conversations with the women developers, investors, and innovators rebuilding commercial real estate from the ground up — co-hosted by Molly McCabe and Jill Ferrari. New episodes out now.
Opportunity Zones & Impact
I had an interesting discussion this week about Opportunity Zones and the challenges many communities have simply due to the compressed timing the legislation imposes. There are so many places where a given community hasn’t really thought about what they want and are just getting started, where the local skill and capacity is limited, technical assistance is needed, investors are reluctant to take a risk and there are few shovel ready projects that have already made it through community engagement.
Driving Value - Responsible and Resilient Property Investing in the New Millennium Institutional Real Estate Investor, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe & Real Assets December 1, 2016 www.irei
'CORE' Real Estate in the 21st Century Must Be Sustainable and Resilient, Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) Guide to U.S. Real Estate Investing, Ch. 29
“L’ACCORD DE PARIS: A Potential Game Changer for the Global Real Estate Industry” a Whitepaper on the impacts of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on real estate, 2016 (Steering Group/Reviewer)
“Returns on Resilience: The Business Case” an Urban Land Institute report showcasing the business case for investing in climate resilience (Contributor)
"High Performance Buildings: Value, Messaging, Financial and Policy Mechanisms” Pacific Northwest National Lab
“Commercial Buildings Energy Asset Rating Program” Pacific Northwest National Lab
Practical Greening: The Bottom Line on Sustainable Property Development, Investment and Financing (available on Amazon)
