UA MRED and Larsen Baker to Co-Sponsor CCIM Forecast Competition
Competition Contenders Prepare for CCIM Forecast Match February 10th
This year’s Joint-Platinum sponsors of the 24th Annual Southern Arizona CCIM Forecast Competition will be the University of Arizona’s, Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) in conjunction with the Larsen Baker LLC (Don Baker and George Larsen, Principals). A unique partnership of exchange between the local CCIM chapter and the new UA MRED program has been forming this year, with CCIM instructors participating in real-life applications with the MRED students.
With the MRED program delivering cornerstone disciplines in real estate development and the CCIM geared toward real-world problems and solutions, it seems a natural match for a whole spectrum of new development. The MRED program is housed in the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture, to give students an opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary program, grounded in finance, planning, landscape architecture, and architecture. CCIM has been adding real-world applications to the program.
Don Baker of Larsen Baker LLC, a well-known real estate speculator and developer in the region, will be among MRED’s first graduating class this year and says he has enjoyed the trans-disciplinary instruction combined with dynamic real-world application.
At this year’s Forecast Competition inductees into Tucson Legends will include Dan Lyons and Andy Romo of Lyons Romo Inc. and the keynote speaker will be Greg Byrne, Vice-President for Athletics at the University of Arizona.
The line-up for this year’s CCIM Forecast Panels has been released and the competition looks stiff but fairly matched, with last year’s winners returning to defend their title against new contenders who have been preparing all year their predictions to be the most accurate for 2015 in order to ‘take home the gold’ trophy.
Here’s how the contest is breaking out:
The 2014 Forecast Winner in the Retail category, Nancy McClure, First Vice-President of CBRE will be combined with challengers Craig Finfrock, Principal at Commercial Retail Advisors, Kevin Volk, Agent at Volk Company and Jim Bradley, Principal Appraiser at Axia Appraisers.
Our 2014 Office Forecast Winner was Rick Kleiner, Principal at Cushman & Wakefield | Picor who will be put together with challengers Bruce Suppes, Vice-President of CBRE, Andrew Sternberg, Agent with Oxford Realty Advisors and, Kent Ahrens Appraiser with Axia Appraisers.
Last year’s Forecast Winner in the Land category was John Carroll, Agent with Land Advisors Organization, who will have a run this year from challengers Terry Klipp, Principal at Teramar Properties, Jim Marian, Principal at Chapman Lindsey Commercial Real Estate Services, and Appraiser John Ferenchak with Burdick and Ferenchak.
For the Multifamily category, the 2014 Forecast Winner was Art Wadlund, Partner with Berkadia who will now face-off against Tony Reed, Senior Associate at Long Realty, Chuck Corriere, Associate Broker at KW Commercial, and Appraiser, Brandon White of CBRE.
The 2014 Industrial Forecast Winner, Bob Davis is Vice-President at Rein & Grossoehme and ready to face the showdown with challengers Russ Hall, Vice-President of Cushman & Wakefield | Picor, Tom Hunt, Principal at Rein & Grossoehme and Michael Naifeh, Appraiser with Valbridge Property Advisors.
In the Finance category, the 2014 Forecast Winner was Sandra Barton, Vice-President at Alliance Bank who is set to be challenged by Jay Ganske, Sr. Vice-President at Mututal of Omaha, C.Lars Larson, Relationship Vice-President at Bank of the West, and Steve Cole, Senior Appraiser with SW Appraisal.
The 2015 CCIM Market Forecast Competition XXIV promises to be as exciting an afternoon for real estate fans as Super Bowl XLIX was for sports fans and a much more relaxed and friendly contest.
If you haven’t reserved yet, there still may be time. Registration begins at 12:30, Program starts at 1:30-5:00 followed by a networking reception from 5:00–6:30 on Tuesday, February 10th at the Marriott Tucson University Park, 880 E 2nd Street Tucson AZ 85719.
Click here to register now or contact Aaron Reid by calling him at 520.382.8791 or email sazccim@TucsonRealtors.org