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

Program Speakers Presentations & Scribe Reports

We host a monthly lunch program with speakers with topic/book/article they will talk about to get the discussion going – then it goes from there with plenty of audience participation and discussion. Site visits where we visit and tour a project. Our Summer Outings are usually focused on a nonprofit organization. Annual Meeting with chapter business, awards, a keynote speaker, and social gathering time. In 2024 we initiated a series of Salons to complement monthly programs that bring together small groups of members for a discussion over a meal at a member’s home or other location. The Salons deepen LAI member knowledge, broaden understanding of selected topics, and develop camaraderie with fellow members.

2025

Baltimore’s New Strategy to Tackle Vacant Houses at Scale
Alice Kennedy, Commissioner, Baltimore, City Department of Housing & Community Development; Michael Mocksten, CFO for the City of Baltimore; and Keenan Rice, President, Municap, Inc.

Appraisal Bias
Jacqulyn Priestly, Chair of Maryland Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity

Salon topics included:

January 8 TIFs to Rid Vacant Housing in Baltimore City
February 25 Communities rethinking traditional density and parking to assist in housing affordability

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

Additionally, 2024 Salon topics included:

February 12 Harborplace Redevelopment
February 20 The moderately priced dwelling unit legislation before the Anne Arundel County Council
November 13 The design of the new Francis Scott Key Bridge
December 2 City of Annapolis New Comprehensive Plan

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, President of Columbia for The 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 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

Book Stop the Road: Stories from the trenches of Baltimore’s road wars
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
held at Inner Harbor Rusty Skupper

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

November Annual Meeting on Somerset, Old Town, and Park Heights Developments with keynote speaker
Dan Henson, President, Henson Development Company on Redeveloping Baltimore Presentationheld at Tenant Lounge & Sky Terrace at 111 S. Calvert Street

Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities
Mac McComas, Senior Program Manager of Johns Hopkins University’s 21^st Century Cities Initiative Zoom presentation

Academic Real Estate Education in the Baltimore/National Capital Area Panel Discussion
Seema D. Iyer, University of Baltimore; Lindsay J. Thompson, Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business; Maria Day-Marshall and Tanya Bansal, University of Maryland, Real Estate Development Program; and Eric Maribojoc, George Mason University Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship Zoom presentation

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

“Wrestling with the Roots of LAI“
Dan Pontious, Housing Policy Coordinator, Baltimore Metropolitan Council Zoom presentation and PowerPoint

July Summer Outing – The Greenway Trail Network
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 Zoom presentation

What’s Behind Soaring Construction Costs
Chip Lambertson, Whiting Turner and Michael Denise, Cushman & Wakefield PowerPoint Zoom presentation

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

Annapolis City Dock
Eileen Fogarty, Co-Chair of City Dock Action Committee, Zoom presentation and PowerPoint

Enterprise Community Development, Inc.
Brian McLaughlin President, Communities Division, for Enterprise Community Development, Inc.

2021 Maryland General Assembly Session
Don Fry, President and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee Zoom presentation

2020

2020 Baltimore LAI Calendar

Annual Meeting on Baltimore Real Estate with keynote speaker
Melody Simmons, Baltimore Business Journal held virtually

An Overview of the Pimlico Racetrack Redevelopment
Bill Cole, Partner, Margrave Strategies Zoom presentation

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

The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Cities and Buildings
Klaus Philipsen, FAIA, LEED AP, President, ArchPlan Inc., and Ethan Marchant, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate, Quinn Evans
Klaus PowerPoint Ethan PowerPoint Zoom Presentation

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

July Summer Outing – Healthcare and Housing for the Homeless
Kevin Lindamood, MSW, President and CEO of Health Care for the Homeless and Dan McCarthy, Executive Director at Episcopal Housing Corporation

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

Transit in Maryland and Its Effects on the State and Real Estate
Kevin Quinn, Administrator, Maryland Transit Administration

Book The North Atlantic Cities on Rowhouse Cities of the North Atlantic World
Charlie Duff, Author, and President of Jubilee

CITYLAB
Lindsay, J. Thompson, Associate Professor, Director, CITYLAB Johns Hopkins University