Tuesday, March 6, 2012

11:30am-1:00pm

Co-Merge

330 A Street
San Diego, CA 92101

The tough times of the last several years have left some investors, developers, consultants, and other professionals ready to launch, if and when the economy rebounds. For others, they’re still in need of restructuring their existing businesses and ventures. San Diego attorney Whitney Skala frequently speaks and writes on entity formation and operations, and is the author of the Continuing Education of the Bar (“CEB”) materials on corporate formation, which are used by attorneys statewide. Whitney’s practice emphases in real estate and corporate transactions give him the background to apply the entity issues in a practical manner. He will help explain why and how to organize your efforts into the right entity, be it in California or outside of the state. Whitney will also talk about two new alternatives in California that have grown out of some of the trends of the last few years—you’ll be surprised at these new possibilities. Get yourself on the right track, for you and your clients.

Pricing is $25 for Members, $15 for Young Leader Members and Full Time Students, $25 Public Sector Employees, and $35 for Non-Members.

Registration is limited to 50 guests.

Pre-registration ends on Thursday, March 1st. After the deadline, all registrations will be processed at the door and will include an additional $10 fee.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

11:30am-1:00pm

URS

4225 Executive Square, 4th Floor
La Jolla, CA 92037

Evolving Sustainability regulations are challenging Agencies & Land Developers to integrate sustainability, while functioning in an environment of limited resources. Public and Private entities are faced with repositioning themselves owing to a shifting economy. In this panel Public, Private and Federal leaders in the San Diego region discuss how they implement sustainability to be competitive; achieve smart growth, cost savings, and an economy of resources. URS has assisted these agencies’ groundbreaking efforts to implement a holistic approach to sustainability. This integrated approach transcends every media from GHG to energy/water to regional planning, realizing a ‘Sustainable Return on Investment’ – the triple bottom line.

Moderator:

Rameeta Garewal, Chair Sustainability Cmte, ULI

Panel:

Linda Gianelli Pratt – Chief Program Manager, City of San Diego Environmental Services Department
Debbie Duckworth – Pollution Prevention Branch Manager, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Rob Rouse – Strategic Sustainability Project Manager, URS
Marco Sessa - Sudberry Properties

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A Special Thanks to Our Sponsor:

Pricing is $25 for Members, $15 for Young Leader Members and Full Time Students, $25 Public Sector Employees, and $35 for Non-Members.

Registration is limited to 35 guests.

Pre-registration ends on Tuesday, February 21st. After the deadline, all registrations will be processed at the door and will include an additional $10 fee.

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Mayor hopefuls, economists, planners on tap

Urban Land Institute chapter to focus four main candidates’ attention on planning, development

Written by: Roger Showley

Jan. 15, 2012

Wednesday – mayoral debate: The Urban Land Institute local chapter holds a mayoral candidate forum focusing on real estate and land-use issues. 5 p.m., Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice on the University of San Diego campus on Linda Vista Road; $35; space limited. The four main candidates have all announced they will attend: City Councilman Carl DeMaio, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, Rep. Bob Filner, D-San Diego, and Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, R-San Diego.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/15/mayor-hopefuls-economists-planners-tap/

Ann Berchtold, executive director of the two-year-old Art San Diego festival, David Malmuth, partner in the I.D.E.A. District (and recently married to Berchtold) and Mary Lydon, executive director of the Urban Land Institute’s San Diego-Tijuana chapter, made the pitch at the invitation-only “Arts in Motion” conference at the recently opened Royal Opera House of Muscat, Oman, a sultanate of 3.6 million at the southeast corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

Please follow this link to read the entire story: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/06/oman-may-figure-2015-balboa-park-plans/

By John M. Eger

Oct. 29, 2011

 So the economy is in the toilet and it is hard, some would say impossible, to talk about the future. And arts districts? You have got to be kidding.

In spite of the pessimism, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) San Diego/Tijuana hosted a seminar last month entitled “Powering Innovation Economies,” held in conjunction with Art San Diego 2011, the San Diego Contemporary Art Fair, to emphasize their belief that “cities that harness the emerging dynamic of innovation into their economic development strategies will be the ones thatleverage themselves into the ranks of great cities in the 21st century.”

Tom Murphy, former mayor of Pittsburgh who is now a ULI Senior Fellow, said what everybody was probably thinking: “It’s a question of priorities. Cities have the money. They just aren’t spending it on their future.”

Bravo. The world is looking for a vision of the future, and the ULI is well-positioned to provide that new vision as well as a strategy to get us moving again. It’s really simple. If a city doesn’t invest in its future, there may not be one.

Admittedly, ULI – the largest worldwide research institute devoted to land use – has been promoting the development of “arts districts,” or as they are also called, “creative industries districts,” in cities across the country. But they could and should be doing more, and more cities should begin creating arts districts as a matter of economic survival.

These arts districts – particularly ones designed to serve as incubators of creativity – are concrete evidence that a creative and innovative economy is taking shape. Although essentially real estate developments, the arts districts are intended to serve the creative industry that, according to The Americans for the Arts, is one of the fastest-growing sectors of our economy.

It is becoming clear these districts are the new engines of economic development, not only for the creative industries but for all enterprises.

John Hickenlooper, governor of Colorado and former mayor of Denver, talked about the importance of collaboration. Somehow all seven counties in the Denver area, along with the commercial sector, found that working together was in everyone’s best interest. The competition, he said, was not retail establishments like coffee shops, bars and restaurants, but television. He advocated getting people off their couches and into vibrant urban centers. Not surprisingly, Denver was soon seen as the capitol of creativity and innovation representing the whole region.

John Alschuler, chair of Friends of High Line, a nonprofit organizationsupporting New York City’s creation of a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park running through the West Side of Manhattan – and providing over 70 percent of High Line’s annual operating budget – said that even without the city’s financial help, private/public partnerships can work.

Also speaking to the audience of architects and developers, artists, art and culture institutions, business and public policy types was Carol Coletta, director of ArtPlace, a new collaboration of the nation’s top foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Coletta said, “If you’re going to be an innovative economy … you have to be able to attract and retain innovativepeople to power the innovative economy, because that’s what it’s all about.” She emphasized that places that are “walkable” and have all the “aesthetics” are most in demand by the new workforce.

Entrepreneurs Pete Garcia and David Malmuth, who also chaired the seminar, see the combination of technology and art as the next wave of economic development. Together they discussed San Diego’s arts district. Called I.D.E.A. for Innovation, Design, Education and Art, the proposal is gaining widespread acceptance as more San Diegans learn what it can mean for the region.

“Co-location” and “collaboration,” they said, are the secret to nurturing this kind of development, and they and others who participated agreed that more city leaders, business executives and educators need to understand “the new black,” as ULI San Diego/Tijuana calls it, and the critical role artists and art institutions can play in fashioning these creative clusters.

Yes, there are cynics. We have been sold too many real estate deals to have much faith in the development de jour. Yet this effort offers promise of a very different future – one that recognizes our economy has changed, and that we need to think differently about land use and jobs, and the emerging creative and innovative economy.

Eger is the Lionel Van Deerlin endowed chair of communication and public policy in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University and director of SDSU’s Creative Economy Initiative.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/29/using-the-arts-as-an-economic-engine/

The Technical Advisory Panels or TAPs program will reach out to local agencies faced with situations that can benefit from ULI’s assistance. The TAP process includes identification of a local issue, review of the site and application materials, and conducting a one to two-day meeting within the affected jurisdiction. The final result will be a comprehensive written report describing the panel’s activities with recommendations that cover land use, legal, financial, design and related topics.  Please click the links below to download past TAP projects and a registration form to apply.

ULI TAP Transit Oriented Development Site

ULI TAP El Cajon

ULI TAP Report 1 E Street Trolley

ULI TAP – SPONSOR APPLICATION FORM

"In the words of the Harvard Review "Everyone who makes it has a MENTOR.” Highly successful people succeed because they enlist the help of the experienced people who can lead them and guide them every step of the way and turn to for counsel, for motivation, for key techniques and strategies that minimize risk and maximize success. In turn, mentors are rewarded with a fresh perspective, new ideas, energy and an opportunity to guide the success of the future.

ULI San Diego/Tijuana is excited to offer its members the opportunity to (sponsor and potentially) mentor local students interested in urban development. The student sponsorship program provides full-time students, through the generosity of a ULI member, a membership in the Urban Land Institute San Diego/Tijuana District Council. They will be able to participate in a variety of professional, networking and social events with leaders in the development industry. They must be full-time students in the San Diego community to participate. Please contact Stephanie Morgan at stephmorgan@yahoo.com or Ashley McElravy at amcelravy@gafcon.com if you are interested in the program and they can provide additional information. The cost to sponsor a student is an annual membership fee of $90/student.

In the spirit of ULI’s tradition of being leaders in the responsible use of land, we can’t think of a better way than to give the next generation of leaders an opportunity to build successful careers in real estate."

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Guided by our sustainable design philosophy, our landscape architects employ design principles and techniques necessary for proper stewardship of the land. We are committed to conservation of the natural environment through implementing sustainable
design principles such as utilizing drought tolerant plant palettes, native vegetation, creative open-space planning, creative use of recycled and local building materials and advanced irrigation systems. Additionally, we are inspired to create designs that
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Our mission is to establish Gillespie Moody Patterson as the premier Landscape Architecture Firm creating master planned communities, multi-family communities, urban places, resorts, parks and commercial environments and places for private and public entities world-wide.

We will achieve this while never losing sight of our core principles:
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As a certifi ed Small Business Enterprise (SBE) in the State of California, GMP has garnered over 100 prestigious design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), Urban Land Institute (ULI), American Institute of Architects
(AIA), Building Industry Association (BIA), the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB), and the Californian Coastal Commission. Our clients include private residential and commercial developers, Federal, State and local cities and municipalities, and leading architecture and engineering firms.

Urban Infill Award – Centre Street Lofts Located at 3761-3771 Centre Street in the San Diego neighborhood of Hillcrest, Centre Street Lofts was developed Lloyd Russell, AIA as owner, architect and builder and Andrew Malick as project manager, as well as project team members Keith Weibrecht and Juan Robles. This market rate rental building is an urban infill solution that maximizes allowable density with a fine-grained approach. A courtyard scheme and rich handmade details humanize scale and promote community. Although limited in interior space, the units’ individual and unique open floor plans engage large private outdoor spaces with sliding glass pocket doors or roll-up doors that make the units feel and live larger. The building provides affordable housing (10 percent at 50 percent AMI) and exceeds California’s Title 24 by 20 percent through the utilization of individual tank-less water heaters and SEER16 multi-split systems throughout the project. The jury selected Centre Street Lofts – for demonstrating small infill housing that is financially feasible, well designed and fits into an existing community. This is a significant part of development moving forward and the jury found this project demonstrates it well. More information about the project is located at: www.lloyd-russell.com/projects

Innovation in Affordable Housing Award – Ten Fifty B Located at 1050 B Street in downtown San Diego, Ten Fifty B was developed by Affirmed Housing Group. The development team included Martinez + Cutri as architect, Project Design Consultants as civil engineer, Turner Construction as general contractor and De Lorenzo Incorporated as landscape architect. Previously the site of a fast food restaurant intended to become market rate condos, the property was acquired by Affirmed Housing Group. The developer strategically used the initial structural plans, altering the plans in order to create a high density, highly efficient, affordable community that looks and feels like a market rate complex. The building is an example of public and private financing coming together to create a successful, energy efficient community for more than 227 San Diego residents who earn 20-60 percent of the county’s median income. Engineered to reduce waste and consumption, Ten Fifty B includes an on-site computer lab, over 4,000 square feet of common area, a community room, outdoor gathering areas, tot lots, barbecues, a fire pit and more. The building is designed and constructed to use 21 percent less energy than allowed under California’s Title 24 requirements. The building reached 100 percent occupancy just two months after completion. Ten Fifty B is the first completed transit-oriented development funded project in the country, and is the first LEED certified, 100 percent affordable high rise on the West Coast. Citing that the project demonstrates affordable housing in a high rise environment that is not only affordable but very attractive, the jury selected Ten Fifty B. More information about the project is located at: http://www.tenfiftyb.com

Urban Infrastructure Award – Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge Located at the intersection of Park Boulevard and Harbor Drive in Downtown San Diego, the Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge was developed by the City of San Diego through Centre City Development Corporation. The recently opened Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge not only provides safe passage over a busy street and a tangle of trolley and train tracks, it also provides residents and visitors with better access and connection to San Diego’s waterfront. The iconic structure, which evokes a ship’s sail – a nod to San Diego’s nautical history – is one of the largest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world. It was developed through an extensive community outreach process to be both functional and iconic. The bridge was made possible through a unique public/private financing model and is a collaboration of local, state and federal agencies and programs. The jury selected Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge for its incredible aesthetics and design. More information about the project is located at: http://www.ccdc.com

Mixed Use Award – mxd830 creative space mxd830 creative space, located at 830 25th Street in Golden Hill, was the brainchild of Architect/Developer/Owner/Contractor Mike Burnett, AIA. The project helps revitalize the commercial corridor of Golden Hill with two levels of living and working spaces on a 6,000 square feet parcel. This eco-friendly infill building mitigates two contrasting adjacencies: a busy gas-station to the south and historic home to the north. Designed to activate the street with new storefront activity, mxd830 offers a variety of high-design spaces for working, playing and living. All units are accessed thru a central social courtyard that welcomes the chance-conversation or occasional cocktail-party. Ground level spaces cater to small boutique-style restaurant/retail or artist studio/gallery spaces. Upstairs offers urban-residential units and creative-office-spaces. The sustainable design includes permeable parking that keeps rainwater on-site, draught-tolerant landscaping, tankless water-heaters, low-maintenance building materials, cool-roof system, dual-glaze-low-e windows and recycled carpet tiles. Energy use is minimized with large operable windows allowing ocean breezes to flow through and natural light fills each space. Ultimately designed to become a catalyst for further growth, mxd830 promotes community outreach through local art shows, fundraisers and other festivities. For demonstrating very creative mixed use at a neighborhood scale, the jury chose to honor mxd830. More information about the project is located at: http://mxd830.com

ULI San Diego Wayne Buss Urban Creative Award – Greg L. Strangman In memory of the late Wayne Buss, the award was established this year by the Buss Family Trust to recognize exemplary, motivated, dedicated and inventive emerging urbanists, planners and designers. This year’s recipient is Gregory L. Strangman, Founder/CEO of the L.W.P. Group, Inc./San Diego, an award-winning residential and commercial real estate developer. The company acquires, renovates and manages existing properties in San Diego, California, targeting urban communities considered ripe for long-term growth and stability. L.W.P.’s current portfolio is enriched by several buildings with historic local significance—valuable holdings that highlight the company’s ongoing commitment to responsible preservation and restoration, intelligent architecture and design, and innovation. Strangman, who will receive a $2000 award, has spent the past 15 years in both real estate development and restaurant ownership. He has deep experience in all areas of real estate, including construction, acquisitions, entitlements, property management and finance. The Buss family selected Strangman for his philosophy of breathing new life into existing structures, his commitment to local artists and to building community through his projects. Strangman was also inspired by the late Wayne Buss in the mid-90s when. Buss encouraged Strangman to strive towards adaptive reuse of existing buildings versus new construction.

The Awards of Excellence jury included Bill Anderson, City of San Diego; Charmaine Atherton, Bank of America; Rob Lankford, Lankford & Associates Inc.; and Ricardo Rabines, Safdie Rabines Architects. In addition to the honorees, several other San Diego projects were nominated, including Gary and Mary West Senior Wellness Center, Del Sur, Ramona Branch Library, DPR Construction Net Zero Office, Pier 32 , County Operations Center Phase 1A, Marina Gateway , Pacific Station, UCSD Rita Atkinson Residence and Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

About ULI The Urban Land Institute develops leaders in the responsible use of land and promotes creation of sustainable, thriving communities worldwide. ULI has 37,000 members internationally and 650 in the San Diego region. The ULI San Diego/Tijuana District Council facilitates local discussion of public policy issues and best practices related to real estate development, city building and land use. www.ulisd.org