RE Seminar: Ithaca real estate developers

The Cornell Program in Real Estate Distinguished Speakers Series welcomes the key Ithaca real estate developers currently engaged in significant student housing, affordable housing, market residential, office, and retail projects in our local market.  This event is the final seminar of the semester, and we will celebrate with a dinner following the panel discussion (see attached invitation).  We hope that you, your significant other, and family can attend.

This final distinguished lecture of the semester will feature some of the key developers that have shaped the Ithaca landscape over the past 20 years as well as focus on many of the key projects currently underway.  Each of the panelists will provide a brief overview of their current project, and then the ensuing panel conversation will address the challenges and opportunities in investing in Ithaca and what it takes to be successful in this market as well as field questions from the audience.  The panelists and their featured projects include:

John Novarr                          
President                               Project overview:  Collegetown Terrace
Novarr-Mackesey Construction

Jason Fane                            
Principal                               Project overview:  Student housing and mixed-use  
Ithaca Renting Company

Andy Sciarabba                              
Founding Principal                     Project Overview: Redevelopment/repurposing of South Hill Business Campus
Sciarabba Walker & Co., LLP                                
                                                       
Frost Travis                          
President                               Project Overview: Ithaca Gun Factory site
Ithaca Rentals & Renovations

Paul Mazzarella                      
Executive Director                     Project Overview: Breckenridge Place
Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc.


The particulars for this Thursday are as follows:

Date:      Thursday, December 1st
When:      4:30-6:30 with dinner to follow in Ballroom “B” of the Statler Hotel on campus
Where:    Beck 198
Attire:      Business

Learn more about the Cornell Real Estate Industry Seminar by visiting http://realestate.cornell.edu/index.php/academics/curriculum/industry_seminar