Sessions

The AUREO Conference Committee is excited to offer a broad range of relevant session topics.

As you peruse the topics, remember we are still in the planning stages of the conference so there may be updates and changes.

Plenary Sessions

• Preconference Workshop - Atlantic Station Brownfield Redevelopment: Atlantic Station is a huge and nationally known Brownfield redevelopment project that started as a Georgia Institute of Technology student’s master’s thesis. Examine how his plan was developed into a national model for smart growth and urbanism through the creation of a 24-hour live-work-play community. You will be able to experience Atlantic Station during the workshop. Learn more.
• University as an Economic Engine: What is the true impact of higher education on a local economy? What is the stimulus that higher education provides as an economic driver? The numbers are staggering and give great food for thought when you negotiate with local constituencies.
• Branding and Sense of Place: Whether an urban, suburban or college town, a sense of place is imperative. This is one area in which real estate has a significant impact on the overall success of an institution. Effective branding can be quite challenging. However, it can be a huge positive stimulus on the campus and local community.
• Ethical Leadership: Leadership, with an understanding of ethics, produces leaders who take responsibility and hold themselves and others accountable. Ethics, with leadership, provides the necessary tools, knowledge, and skills to develop and implement vision and forward thinking. An "ethical leader" is one who builds relationships with others while serving the common good. Learn how the ethical leader embodies in attitude, behavior, and action five core beliefs: respect, trust and honesty, optimism, intentionality, and service.
  

Concurrent Sessions

Public Private Partnerships

• Foundations 101: Explore endowment foundations, real estate foundations, and other affiliated entities. What are the significant differences between these entities? How do they interface with an institution’s real estate office, and how do they support an institutions real estate needs? Discover how, when, and why to form them, how to control them and how to work with them to attain your goals.
• Overview: State funding not enough to satisfy your new facility needs? Take a new look at alternative revenue sources, and how to negotiate the many financial, legal and design issues in facilities development of revenue bond funded facilities.
• Transaction Structure: What innovative legal structures are available for facilities development? Depending on many factors, you may need to be quite creative to find a legally sufficient structure to combine multiple funding sources, comply with state and federal laws and produce the desired result at lowest cost.
• Underwriting: Learn about financing options and the impact of the credit markets on real estate. With the recent turbulence in the markets, what are current underwriting criteria and how do they impact your next financing?

Appraisals

• What makes a great appraisal? How do you know if you have appraised the right interest in your property? Is it really necessary to use three methodologies to determine a property's value, and what limiting conditions, if contained in an appraisal, should cause you to be concerned?

Resolving Holdouts Without Using Eminent Domain

• Learn about the 10 percent in the 90/10 rule of property acquisition. Those last 10 percent of properties that need to be acquired for an assemblage frequently will take 90 percent of your effort. Many times eminent domain is not an available answer or the best answer for acquisition. Learn how to handle these holdouts.

Greek Housing

• Is dealing with Greeks all Greek to you? How do you create a Greek village on a campus that has never had any Greek housing? How do you move Greek organizations from their existing houses on campus to a Greek village? Gain perspectives from the campus and Greek sides of the issue.

Google Earth

• A topic highlight of the Vancouver conference, learn about the many uses of Google Earth for real estate.

Sustainability

• The quality of life within a community is the cornerstone of the definition of the word sustainability, which centers on how the economic, social, and environmental systems work together to provide a healthy and productive environment. Learn how to create a sustainable environment by protecting green space, development of LEED buildings, and other initiatives.

Senior Housing

• The latest trend in collaboration is development of senior housing on or adjacent to campus. Learn more about having senior housing as part of your campus environment.

Athletics

• Athletic facilities are at the heart of recruiting. The amount of money being invested to surpass the "Joneses" is astonishing. What do you have that I can't get at another university? Where will I study? Practice? Compete? Live? Hangout? Learn the latest trends, what is motivating athletic directors, university presidents, coaches, academic advisors, campus planners, etc., to participate in this building frenzy, the funding sources, the need for long range planning, and what it takes to win!

Community and Zoning

• Learn how to get the zoning or variance you need. Even if you are not subject to local zoning, how do you develop property and maintain town/gown relationships when the community raises zoning concerns.

Security Risk Assessment/Survey

• What are the potential benefits of conducting a security risk assessment or survey for existing properties and/or properties considered for purchase? What are the essential elements of a risk assessment/survey?

Leasing

• Always a favorite topic area for AUREO. There will be sessions dealing with this area that are highly relevant to us all.