Past Program Speakers Presentations & Scribe Reports – Baltimore Chapter of Lambda Alpha International

Program Speakers Presentations & Scribe Reports

2024

November Annual Meeting with keynote speaker
Claudia Jolin, Executive Director, Baltimore Peninsula Community Benefits District
held at the Rye Street Tavern

South Baltimore Wetlands Restoration
Brad Rogers, Executive Director, South Baltimore Gateway Partnership

The Arena’s $250M+ state-of-the-art renovation
Frank Remesch, General Manager, CFG Bank Arena | Oak View Group

July Summer Outing presentation & tour of two innovative housing developments
Hope Village and The Compound

Neighborhood Investment in Baltimore: Understanding trends for the City and Impacts of EBDI
Dr. Brett Theodos, Senior Fellow and Director, The Community Economic Development Hub
Chapter President’s Update

Howard Street Tunnel Redevelopment Project
Brandon Knapp, PE Sr. Director – Mid-Atlantic Construction CSX Transportation
Brandon Knapp PowerPoint and Chapter President’s Update

Senior Housing Models
Jane Rohde, Principal, JSR Associates, Inc.
Jane Rohde’s PowerPoint and Chapter President’s Update

West North Avenue Development Authority Comprehensive Development Plan
Chad Williams, Executive Director
Chad Williams’ PowerPoint Presentation and Chapter President’s Update

Update on the Redevelopment of Perkins Homes and the Perkins Somerset Oldtown Transformation
Bart Harvey, Beatty Development Group
Chapter President’s Update

Baltimore’s Regional Tech Hub
Mark Anthony Thomas, Greater Baltimore Committee
Chapter President’s Update

2023

2023 Baltimore LAI Calendar

November Annual Luncheon Meeting with keynote speaker
P. David Bramble Managing Partner, Co-founder of MCB Real Estate
held at Woodberry Kitchen

Maryland Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022
Stuart Kaplow, Esquire

Baltimore Penn Station and Amtrak-related properties redevelopment & Tour
Charlie Bond, Beatty Development and James Smith, Quinn Evans

July Summer Outing – Farming Inside the Beltway
Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm 3811 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD
Hidden Waters Farm 3250 Old Court Road, Pikesville, MD

Joint Luncheon of the LAI Baltimore and LAI George Washington (DC) Chapters
The New Downtown Columbia
Greg Fitchett, Howard Hughes Corporation

Maryland Legislative Wrap Up: recap the real estate legislation that came out of Maryland’s 2023 Session
Senate President William C. Ferguson IV
Chapter President’s Update

Panel discussion on condo challenges and redevelopment opportunities following the collapse of a high-rise Florida condo in 2021 prompting major changes in condo laws
Speakers included LAI member Jerry Doctrow, Stephen Cleghorn, Tom Leibel, and David Fishman
Chapter President’s Update and Article shared by Jerry Doctrow

Middle Branch Waterfront Master Plan to transform it into Baltimore’s next great waterfront
Brad Rogers, Executive Director, South Baltimore Gateway Partnership

Tax Sale Foreclosures on Home Owners / West Side Development
Bree Jones, Founder of Parity, and Nneka N’namdi, COO and Founder of Fight Blight Bmore

Stop the Road: Stories from the trenches of Baltimore’s road wars
LAI Member Evans Paull discuss his new book Presentation and Chapter President’s Update

2022

2022 Baltimore LAI Calendar

November Annual Meeting with keynote speaker
Jayson T. Williams, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mayson-Dixon Companies presentation

Tackling Vacant Housing Stock In Baltimore – Creating Housing In Depressed Neighborhoods
Sean Closkey, President, ReBUILD Metro, and Regina Hammond, Executive Director, Rebuild Johnston Square Neighborhood Organization

Transportation Initiatives from Federal Stimulus
Mike Kelly, Baltimore Metropolitan Council

July Summer Outing Lexington Market renovation
Paul W. Ruppert, President & CEO, Baltimore Public Markets Corporation

Planning for Net Zero
Joshua Galloway, Senior Project Manager, and Justin Iovenitti, Energy Engineer,

Downtown Baltimore Office Vacancies
Claudia Freeland Jolin, Vice President of Economic Development at Downtown Partnership of Baltimore and Lauren Hamilton, Chief Marketing Officer at the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Zoom and Chapter President’s Update

ARPA Infrastructure Bill Implementation in Baltimore and How the City Will Utilize the Unprecedented, One-Time Transfer of $641M into the City’s Coffers
Chris Shorter, Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Baltimore; Natasha Mehu, Director, Mayor’s Office Government Relations; and Shamiah Kerney, Director, Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs Chapter President’s Update

Overview of the Goals for City’s Housing Stock
Alice Kennedy, Commissioner, Department of Housing and Community Development

A Deep Dive into the 2020 Census Data
Seema D. Iyer, Director, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, and Sara Paranilam, Policy and Data Analysis Chief, Baltimore City Department of Planning Zoom presentation

Taking Baltimore’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy to the Next Level to Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Colin Tarbert, President and CEO, Baltimore Development Corporation Zoom presentation

2021

2021 Baltimore LAI Calendar

2021 12-8 Annual Dinner Meeting with Dan Henson Redeveloping Baltimore Presentation

2021 11-17 JHU’s Mac McComas on Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities Zoom presentation.

2021 10-10 Academic Real Estate Education in the Baltimore/National Capital Area Panel Discussion Zoom presentation.

2021 09-15 Donald Manekin, co-founder of Seawall Development in Baltimore discussing his new book, The Inside-Out Company: Putting Purpose and People First, a provocative challenge for leaders of every industry, written with Asha Myers Zoom presentation.

2021 08-18 Dan Pontious “Wrestling with the Roots of LAI” Zoom presentation, PowerPoint.

2021 06-16 Jim Brown, Director, TrailNation for Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and Jeff La Noue, Special Projects Planner, Division of Comprehensive Planning, ‎Department of Planning, City of Baltimore: Greenway Trail Network Zoom presentation

2021 05-19 Chip Lambertson, Whiting Turner and Michael Denise, Cushman & Wakefield: What’s Behind Soaring Construction Costs Zoom presentation

2021 04-21 Jennifer Vey: Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at the Brookings Institution Zoom presentation, PowerPoint

2021 03-17 Eileen Fogarty: Annapolis City Dock Zoom presentation, PowerPoint

2021 02-17 Brian McLaughlin President, Communities Division, for Enterprise Community Development, Inc.

2021 01-19 Don Fry, President and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee: 2021 Maryland General Assembly Session

2020

2020 Baltimore LAI Calendar

2020 12-09 Virtual Annual Meeting with Keynote Speaker Melody Simmons, Baltimore Business Journal.

2020 11-18 Bill Cole, with Margrave Strategies: An Overview of the Pimlico Racetrack Redevelopment

2020 10-21 Stephen J.K. Walters, Chief Economist at the Maryland Public Policy Institute “Yes, Baltimore Can Come Back, and Here’s How”: Power Point, Stephen Walters Article on Property Taxation

2020 09-16 Klaus Philipsen and Ethan Marchant, The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Cities and Buildings, Zoom Presentation

2020 08-19 MD-PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing for Commercial Properties in Maryland) with Jessa Coleman , PACE Financial Servicing, and Michael Billingsley , Greenworks Lending

2020 07- 22 Kevin Lindamood, MSW, President and CEO of Health Care for the Homeless and Dan McCarthy, Executive Director at Episcopal Housing Corporation

2020 06-17 Alan Mallach, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Community Progress in Washington DC, on “Drilling Down in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods: Changes in racial/ethnic composition and income from 2000 to 2017”

2020 05-27 Kevin Quinn, Maryland Transit Administration, on the Transit in Maryland and Its Effects on the State and Real Estate

2020 03-18 [to be rescheduled due to COVID19] Stephen J.K. Walters, Chief Economist at the Maryland Public Policy Institute and the author of Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream

2020 02-19 Charlie Duff, Jubilee and Author of The North Atlantic Cities