Sean Sweeney
Co-Founder/Owner, Hall Sweeney Properties
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ULI Minnesota: 12th Annual Virtual Housing Summit – Building Small, Reducing Costs, and Expanding Affordability
Pricing
| Standard Pricing Until July 15 | Members | Non-Members |
|---|---|---|
| Private | $50.00 | $75.00 |
| Public/Academic/Nonprofit | $40.00 | $60.00 |
| Retired | $50.00 | N/A |
| Student | $50.00 | $75.00 |
| Under Age 35 | $50.00 | $75.00 |
Your registration fee includes at 30% discount on Building Small, pre-release of the Missing Housing for Middle Incomes report, and eligibility for 2 hours of MN Real Estate CE, AICP, or AIA credits.*
*Credits have been applied for.
ULI Minnesota 12th Annual Housing Summit, Virtual
Building Small, Reducing Costs, and Expanding Affordability
Learn about the years of national and local research, case studies, and industry insights on building small at the 12th Annual Housing Summit. We’ll look at the overall impact of development requirements, market factors that impact costs, and what it takes to increase affordability. National and local experts will explore:
- What strategies, innovations, and policies allow small-scale developments to be built in a more authentic, distinct form and meet the growing need for missing housing for middle incomes?
- What are the tradeoffs that both developers and community leaders should consider when reducing the obstacles to smaller, cost efficient and affordable developments?
- How will emerging market forces, including rising costs of labor and materials, continue to impact housing availability and affordability?
- How can these development types offer opportunities for increased equity and wealth-building?
Keynote:
Jim Heid, FASLA
UrbanGreen® Advisors
CRAFT DevelopmentHealdsburg, CA
Jim writes and speaks regularly on sustainable design, resilience, and the value of small scale, incremental development. His forthcoming book – Building Small: A Handbook for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders and Great Communities – will provide a detailed look at what, why and how grained development provides a more economically resilient and socially impactful approach to building and regenerating communities.
Trained as a landscape architect at the University of Idaho, Jim went on to receive a Masters in Real Estate Development from MIT as way to more effectively integrate economics, development and design thinking.
Local Perspectives: What does it take to build missing housing for middle incomes?
Hear from a multi-disciplinary team of ULI Minnesota public and private sector members who met over several months to break down the barriers that are getting in the way of building unsubsidized housing for middle income households. The panel will outline their key findings and recommended changes across the construction, design, financing and land use sectors. In addition, they will provide input on how their work will be impacted by the recent economic disruption and uncertainty.
Betsy Gabler, Business Development Director, Alchemy Architects
Sean Sweeney, Co-Founder, Hall Sweeney Properties
Nate Stencil, CEO, Stencil Group
Sean Sweeney, Co-Founder, Hall Sweeney Properties
Nate Stencil, CEO, Stencil Group
Agenda
10:00 AM - Welcome and Introductions10:10 AM - Keynote Presentation
10:30 AM - Keynote Q&A
10:45 AM - Local Perspectives and Case Studies
11:30 AM - Local Q&A
12:00 PM - Adjourn
Registration:
$50 ULI Members
$75 Nonmembers
20% discount for public sector / non-profit attendees
As part of your registration fee, you will receive:
- 30% discount on the purchase of the book, Building Small
Attendees are encouraged to purchase and review the book as well as ULI MN’s report before the event to allow for a more engaged discussion and Q&A. Order before the event and receive a 30% discount. - An exclusive pre-release PDF copy of ULI Minnesota’s newest housing report: Missing Housing for Middle Incomes - Strategies to Reduce Cost and Add Affordability.
- Recording and copy of the event slides
- Opportunity to earn 2 hours of AIA, AICP, or Minnesota Real Estate CE credits.
*Credits have been applied for.
Speakers
Nate Stencil
CEO, Stencil Group
Betsy Gabler
Business Development Director, Alchemy Architects
Jim Heid
Founder, Urban Green, LLC
Jim Heid, FASLA, is an infill real estate developer and strategic real estate adviser focused on the tools and techniques that lead to a more sustainable built environment. For more than 30 years he has advised cities, NGOs, legacy landowners, and private developers on more positive ways to build community. In 2017, he founded CRAFT Development, a real estate company focused on incremental development and intentional place-building. Since its founding, CRAFT has adaptively refashioned a 1960's empty bank space into a bespoke 'club-working' space (www.craftworkhbg.com) that opened 60 days before the onset of the pandemic, and is completing an innovative twelve unit fee simple cottage court on 1.2 acres (www.riverhousehealdsburg.com), both located in his home town of Healdsburg, CA - a small lifestyle town north of San Francisco. Over nine years ago he founded ULI's Small Scale Developers Forum to bring together real estate entrepreneurs developing fine grained, community driven projects that disrupt real estate norms while creating community value and increase the vitality of communities across the urban to rural transect. After leading tours and forums in over 15 cities for ULI, he authored ULI's newest publication - Building Small: A Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders and Great Communities. An active member of ULI since 1991, Jim has participated in, or chaired, over 14 Advisory Services Panels focused on resilience, sustainable development and mixed use or new community design. For over two decades he has led ULI's professional development courses in Sustainable Community Design, Mixed Use Development and Advanced Residential Development. He is a founding member of the Responsible Property Investing Product Council and is now a member of CRC-Platinum.
