Nate Hovee/Shutterstock.com By Michel Couillard, CRE® 2020 Chair | The Counselors of Real Estate President and CEO | Busac Real Estate Counselors of Real Estate are forward-thinking leaders who find opportunity when others see only challenges. We’re part of an organization whose culture of integrity, respect, selflessness, community, and trust has been a key differentiator… Read more
Roschetzky Photography/Shutterstock.com By Bruce Knight Planning & Development Director | City of Champaign The City of Champaign, Illinois (population 88,000), where I have worked as the Planning and Development Director for the last 31 years, maintains a 10-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and updates it annually to ensure we are addressing the highest priority infrastructure… Read more
Brooklyn, New York, October 30, 2012: Serious flooding in the buildings at the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood due to impact from Hurricane Sandy. By Andrew Garte President | Andrew Garte & Associates The 2019-2020 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate listed “Weather and Climate-Related Risks” as issue number three. That topic has been covered in The… Read more
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com $1,000,000 in Grants. 80 Projects Funded. Countless Beneficiaries Worldwide. One Foundation. Fifty-three years in the making and because of benefactors like you, the Counselors of Real Estate Foundation enters a highly proactive new era in 2020. How? The CRE Foundation is committing more money to game-changing projects that have a consequential connection to real… Read more
Subscribe to the digital or print edition at cre.org/subscribe/ 2020 CRE Chair Michel Couillard, CRE® Editor-in-Chief Deborah C. Nisson, CRE® Associate Editor Constantine Korologos, CRE® President & CEO Mary Fleischmann Editorial Committee Tom Hamilton, Ph.D., CRE® Paige Mueller, CRE® Alex Ruggieri, CRE® Designer & Managing Editor Alyssa Bray Contributing Editor R.J. Sirois In This Issue: Winter… Read more
The Counselors of Real Estate®, established in 1953, is an international group of high profile professionals including members of prominent real estate, financial, legal and accounting firms as well as leaders of government and academia who provide expert, objective advice on complex real property situations and land-related matters. Membership is selective, extended by invitation only. The organization’s CRE® (Counselor of Real Estate) credential is granted to all members in recognition of superior problem solving ability in various areas of real estate counseling. For more information, contact The Counselors of Real Estate