The 2nd Annual Rutgers Center for Real Estate Symposium – New Jersey at a Crossroads: How and Where Do We Grow from Here – will feature an all-star list of panelists addressing key topics, March 4 in New Brunswick.
The event, sponsored by the Rutgers Center in conjunction with Sills Cummis and Gross, will be held from 8:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m. at the Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick. (For more information, click here)
Symposium sponsors include AvalonBay and United Roosevelt Savings Bank.
The symposium will aim to address this key issue: In an already-overburdened state budget and high cost of living, how will New Jersey be able to:
- Implement a new state master plan while reconciling competing regional and municipal planning policies and objectives?
- Fix the state’s transportation and utility systems to receive more growth while preserving open space and confronting climate change?
- Retain and attract tomorrow’s residents and businesses while controlling tax es and making housing affordable again?
Here’s the agenda
Introduction and overview
Ted Zangari: Chair real estate department, Sills Cummis & Gross, P.C.
Breakfast keynote
Tim Touhey: Former chairman, NJ State Planning Commission, and former CEO, NJ Builders Association
Panel No. 1
“It Starts with a Plan: Reconciling State, Regional and Municipal Planning”
Moderator:
- Sheena Collum: Mayor of South Orange and executive director of New Jersey chapter of the American Planning Association
Panelists
- Dan Kennedy: CEO, NAIOP-NJ
- Troy Singleton: State senator
- Jacquelyn Suarez: commissioner, NJDCA
- Corey Wescoe: VP of acquisitions and entitlements, Pulte Group
- Tom Wright: chairman, N.J. State Planning Commission and CEO, Regional Plan Association
Panel No. 2
“Public Infrastructure: Fixing the State’s Transportation and Utility Systems to Receive More Growth While Preserving Open Space and Confronting Climate Change”
Moderators:
- Eric Daleo: principal managing director, Telos Advisors and former chief program officer, Gateway Development Commission
- Adam Zellner: president, Greener by Design, and former director of policy, office of the governor
Panelists
- Samuel Donelson: SVP, AECOM
- Seth Gerszberg: founder, Active Acquisitions LLC
- Ronnie Hakim: SVP, HNTB Corporation
- Rick Mroz: senior director, Archer Public Affairs
- Gagandeep Singh: senior advisor, real estate, NJ Transit
Panel No. 3
“Retaining and Attracting Tomorrow’s Residents and Businesses: It’s a Supply and Affordability Problem”
Moderator
- Ron Ladell: SVP, AvalonBay Communities and chair, executive committee for the Rutgers Center for Real Estate
Panelists
- Michael Avaltroni: president, Farleigh Dickinson University
- John Boyd, Jr.: principal, Boyd Company, Inc.
- Wesley Mathews: CEO, Choose New Jersey
- Robert Rudin: Transaction consulting vice chairman, Cushman & Wakefield
- Michele Siekerka: CEO, N.J. Business & Industry Association
Lunch panel
“Unplugged: Reflections of Former Top Policymakers Who Were ‘in the Room’”
Moderator
- Tom Bergeron: editor, ROI-NJ
Panelists
- Regina Egea: Board chair, Garden State Initiative and former chief of staff to Gov. Christie
- Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti: Former chief of staff to Gov. Murphy and former commissioner, N.J. Department of Transportation
- George Helmy: Chief external affairs and policy officer, RWJBarnabas Health and former Chief of Staff to Gov. Murphy
- Ralph Izzo: Former Chair, CEO of PSE&G
- Evan Weiss: CEO, Newark Alliance and former senior advisor to Gov. Murphy – Finance and Infrastructure
