April 20, 2023

Thank you to all council members who attended ULI Minnesota’s first joint council event – bringing together our Market Council and Resilient Communities Council for a half day deep dive into the “Tools to Navigate the Changing Real Estate World: Repositioning Existing Projects, Innovative Funding Solutions, and Creative Cost-Saving Strategies”.

We appreciate the time and energy our council chairs John Breitinger, Roseanne Hope from our Market Council, and Martha Faust and Colin Oglesbay from Resilient Communities Council and ULI’s Todd Olson for making this event a success! Together, they hosted a not to miss ULI council session filled with amazing panels of experts including:

Repositioning Office to Residential: Lessons Learned 

A big thanks to A. Sean O’Gorman Jr. and Bill Baxley for joining us to discuss Gensler‘s work on repositioning office to residential.

Innovative Development Solutions: Modular Construction

We thank Dean Dovolis, AIA (DJR), Stephani Sundry (RISE Modular), and Mark Lucas (RISE Modular) for sharing their expertise and insights on how modular construction has become an innovative solution for developing housing, commercial and mixed use properties.

District-Level Funding Solutions: Weathering the Real Estate Market

We also heard from a experts who have experiences in guiding districts-level funding and how they can best weather the market changes. Thank you to Jon Commers (Visible City), Erin Lonoff (HR&A Advisors) and Catherine Malmberg Dannenbring (Rochester DMC/EDA, Destination Medical Center (DMC)).

Learn more about ULI Minnesota’s five local product councils, here.