The Real Estate Center/Chaddick Institute Conference

Join the Real Estate Center and the Chaddick Institute for this relevant conference that explores creative ways to finance infrastructure improvements.  

City governments across the country are  turning to creative-and sometimes risky-strategies to expand and improve their infrastructure. Some, like Chicago, have entered long-term leases with private concessions and created "infrastructure banks" to leverage private investment. Others are taking stock of "value capture" techniques and complex user-fee schemes to retire the associated debt.

The program includes:

• a "fireside chat" with Steven Koch, deputy mayor of the City of Chicago, who will talk about the Chicago Infrastructure Trust and some of the specific projects that will be funded through the program including the energy efficiency retrofit plan   
• a discussion with  James E. Pass, managing director, municipals, at Guggenheim who will address the issue from the investor's perspective and talk about what kinds of projects are interesting to private investors and why
• a presentation from Phil Hanegraaf, vice president & national planning market leader of RS&H, who will explore the link between creative finance and planning with a focus on how public/private partnerships provide the funding for projects that otherwise would go unfunded and how that funding actually accelerates project delivery
  

Date: Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
Registration and Networking: 8:15am-9:00am
Program: 9:00am-11:00pm
Location: The DePaul Center Building, 1 E Jackson Blvd, 8005
Price: $45