NEWSLETTER

August | 2019School of Architecture Planning and PreservationMaryland's Built Environment School

MRED in South Africa

Durban Cape Town

Nelson Mandela University

During the last two weeks in July, Director Maria Day-Marshall and Assistant Director Tanya Bansal traveledto South Africa with five members of the NationalAssociation of Housing and Redevelopment Officials(NAHRO) representing public housing authorities inMaryland, California, Texas, New Jersey andPennsylvania. The purpose of the trip was to explorepublic housing research and practice partnershipsbetween South African institutions and the US,to explore opportunities to exchange information onsocial and affordable housing best practices, and toengage on academic exchanges in the area of realestate development.

The delegation was hosted in South Africa by LawrenceRamashamole, Chief Executive Officer, HousingAuthority of East London, and led by Elizabeth Glenn,South Africa Professional Exchange Manager for theMaryland Association of Housing and RedevelopmentAgencies. The group journeyed to four cities includingJohannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durbanat which they met with social housing and othergovernment officials, and visited informal, formal andsquatter housing settlements. The trip also includedmeetings with representatives from Nelson MandelaUniversity, University of KwaZulu-Natal and DurbanUniversity of Technology, all of whom were enthusiasticabout the prospect of establishing partnerships with theUniversity of Maryland and interested in professional

KwaZulu-Natal University

Johannesburg

and student exchange programs, as well asparticipating in a Pan-African Housing and SustainableDevelopment Symposium.

Isithumba Village in KwaXimba

Professor Bansal in India

This summer, Tanya Bansal, Assistant Director andClinical Assistant Professor, visited architectureschools in India. She interacted with departmentchairs, faculty and students at the MaharishiMarkandeshwar University (MMU), Ambala,Regional Institute of Management and TechnologyUniversity (RIMT), Mandi Gobindgarh, and the LovelyProfessional University (LPU), Jalandhar, all inPunjab, India. The purpose of the visit was toeducate architecture students about the real estatedevelopment process in the United States, and todiscuss with the faculty opportunities forcollaboration between them and the University ofMaryland.

SeptemberHappy Hour

Colvin Fall Lecture SeriesThe Future of Retail

The Lobby Bar at The Hotel at the University ofMarylandCollege Park, MDSeptember 24, 2019 | 5 PM - 8 PMBack to school happy hour at College Park! Markyour calendar for September 24th. Join us at TheLobby Bar at The Hotel at the University ofMaryland from 5:00 pm-8:00 pm for complimentaryappetizers, cash bar and lots of networking! Thisevent is open to all alumni, current MREDstudents and friends. Hope you can make it!Please RSVP to Carrie Chard atcchard@umd.edu

RSVP

Mark your calendar for the Colvin Institute's FallLecture Series on October 9! SiteWorks'President, Nick Egelanian, will present publiclyavailable data points to argue that Amazon is notkilling retail, and it is also not anywhere close tobecoming a dominant player in the groceryindustry.

Considered a leading expert on retail and theshopping center industry, Nick Egelanianpioneered the segmentation of retail intoCommodity & Specialty sub-groups as the authorof the retail chapter of the Urban Land Institute’sProfessional Real Estate Development: The ULIGuide to the Business, 3rd Edition in 2012.Egelanian served as VP of Real Estate and NewStore Development for Crown Books and FAOInc/Zany Brainy before forming SiteWorks RetailReal Estate Services in 1992. As President ofSiteWorks, Egelanian has worked with retailclients and advises owners and developersthroughout North America. He is also an adjunctprofessor for the Master in Real EstateDevelopment Degree (MRED) at the University ofMaryland.

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