The Rutgers Business School Center for Real Estate will bring together more than two dozen industry experts next week for a symposium exploring how land-constrained New Jersey can attract and retain residents while addressing its challenges on affordability, housing, infrastructure, climate change and an entrenched system of local home rule.
New Jersey at a Crossroads: Where Do We Go from Here will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4 at the Heldrich Hotel Conference Center in New Brunswick. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. Admission includes prepaid parking, a Continental breakfast and a box lunch.
NJBIA President & CEO Michele Siekerka will be a panelist in the event’s second discussion of the event “Retaining and Attracting Tomorrow’s Residents and Businesses,” moderated by Ron Ladell chair of the Executive Committee for the Rutgers Business School Center for Real Estate. Ladell is also senior vice president at AvalonBay Communites, Inc.
Other experts on that panel discussion include:
- Michael Avaltroni, President Farleigh Dickinson University
- John Boyd, Jr. Principal Boyd Company, Inc.
- Wesley Mathews President & CEO Choose New Jersey
- Robert Rudin, Transaction Consulting Vice Chair, Cushman & Wakefield
- The event will open with a keynote address by Tim Touhey, the former CEO of the New Jersey Builders Association and former chair of the State Planning Commission. Attorney Ted Zangari, who chairs the Real Estate Department at Sills Cummis & Gross, P.C., will provide an overview.
For a full list of all panel topics and speakers, as well as registration information, go here.
