Urban Marketplace 2007

"My experience as a speaker at a roundtable for the Urban Marketplace 2006 was great. I was able to meet and network with an amazing amount of people in just one day. I personally met a lender that we have used to finance many millions of dollars in development projects. I met a member of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency who we have worked with on two separate projects and we continue to work together on many more. We also met a fellow developer who turned us on to a great urban infill project that we are in the process of building. Within one day I met all of these people who have helped grow our business. I cannot say enough about the networking opportunities that are available at ULI's Urban Marketplace. There isn't another event like it that I know of where under one roof you are able to meet contacts that can help you take a development project from pre-acquisition to final sales/marketing and everything in between."

- Adam O'Neill, Principal, Angeles Group, LLC

Philip S. Hart, Hart Realty Advisors, and John K. McIlwain, Urban Land Institute, explaining what LA can learn from New Orleans

Roundtables

Public Sector Magic
Philip Hart, Executive Director, ULI Los Angeles
Tom Murphy, Senior Resident Fellow, ULI/Klingbeil Family Chair for Urban Development

Revitalizing Our Streets
Jeff Kreshek, Principal, CIM Group
Alan Pullman, Principal, Studio One Eleven at P+R Architects

Team Hollywood
John Given, Principal-Investment & Development, CIM Group
Leron Gubler, President & CEO, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
John Perfitt, Senior Real Estate Development Agent, CRA/LA Hollywood
Samir Srivastava, CEO, ABS Development Company

Workforce Housing
R. Alex Saunders, Senior Vice President, Phoenix Realty Group

Equity Financing
Daniel Beaney, Managing Director, Shamrock Capital Advisors

Transit Oriented Development
Allan Kotin, Allan D. Kotin & Associates
Roger Moliere, Executive Officer-Real Property, MTA
Thomas Nagel, President, Urban Development Resource, Corp.

Navigating the Entitlement Process
Andrew Adelman, P.E. General Manager, LADBS
Craig Lawson, President, Craig Lawson & Co., LLC

Retail/Commercial Urban Development
Rev. Alvin Isaacs, Pastor, President, Calvary Christian Fellowship Church, Inglewood
Richard P. McNish, Loan Fund Manager, City of Inglewood
Andrew J. Natker, Sr. Vice President, Alexander Haagen Co.

Pre-Development Funding Challenges
Andrew Jobst, Executive Vice President, HG Capital, LLC

What's Up - Downtown?
Hal Bastian, Sr. Vice President and Director, Economic Development, Downtown Center BID
Tom Cody, Principal, Gerding Edlen Development & The South Group

Entrepreneurial Minority Contractors
Carlton Lewis, Principal, DevCorp Commercial Funding, LLC
Elton Massey, Managing Director, The Ithaca Group Inc.
Beverly Pearce, President and CEO, The Pearce Consulting Inc
Veronica Soto, Director, Contractor Relations & Small Business Program, LAUSD

Developing Neighborhood Support
Kevin Keller, City Planner, Los Angeles Planning Department
Douglas Moreland, Executive Vice President, Wilson Meany Sullivan (Hollywood Park)

Permit Expedition
Penny Flinn, Executive Vice President, Pacific Crest Consultants, Inc.
Gary L. Morris , President, Pacific Crest Consultants, Inc.
Kimberlina Whettam, Vice President, Pacific Crest Consultants, Inc.

Urban Financing
Richmond McCoy, President & CEO, UrbanAmerica LP
William Howell, Vice President-Development, UrbanAmerica LP
Jeffrey Monge, Vice President-Business Development, UrbanAmerica LP

Affordable Housing
Mary Kaiser, President, California Community Reinvestment Corporation

Office/Industrial
William D. Messori, Senior Vice President, Mar Ventures, Inc.
Dan Withee, Partner, Withee Malcolm Architects, LLP

Brownfields
Noemi Emeric, Brownfields Project Manager, USEPA Region 9

Prefabricated Housing
John Joire, Principal, Angeles Group, LLC
Nick Komar, Project Consultant, Altamont Homes, Inc.
Adam O'Neill, Principal, Angeles Group, LLC

Public Financing
Eric Scriven, Sr. Vice President, EJ De La Rosa @ Co.