[Crealums] 2004 AACRE Membership Letter

Fri Apr 16 11:15:12 EDT 2004

AACRE Board
of Directors

Mecky Adnani
Mark Baranski
Kristin Blount
Stephanie Bright
Kirstin Brown
Benjamin Brubaker
Walker Collier
Peter Crabtree
Marion Cunningham
Lisa Davis
Whitney Foutz
Trevor Hardy
Jay Hooper
Rachel Matthai
Tod McGrath
Kristin Olsen
Kristi Prigmore
Amanda Strong
Cessy Templeton
Forrest Westin
James Young

April 16, 2004

Greetings Fellow CRE Alums,

Great things are happening at the Center this year, and it has been an
especially active year for the Alumni Association of the Center for Real
Estate (AACRE).  We would like to take this opportunity to share the
excitement with you, and to ask you to renew your commitment and connection
to the center by joining our Alumni Association annual membership drive.

First of all, to help us re-organize our administration and service our
alums outside of the northeast, we have organized AACRE under the MIT Alumni
Association umbrella.  This does not change the way we do our day-to-day
business, but rather provides us with a true non-profit platform, insurance
and the ability to register and pay for our dues and events on line.  More
importantly, it gives us a link to MIT Clubs in various cities to align
ourselves in planning events.  Second, we are working with the Center on an
important initiative that will benefit all of the alums. We are in the early
stages of planning a secure, interactive website that will allow alums to
communicate easily and freely about questions, job leads, published papers,
and other information. The Center has been extremely generous, both
financing and spearheading this effort. Please visit the Center’s website
( http://web.mit.edu/cre/) for our calendar of events.  If your contact
information has changed, you can update it there too.

Here in Boston, we’ve been busy.  The AACRE Breakfast Clubs are underway and
will be held quarterly.  This past December, Randi Lathrop and Andrew Grace
from the BRA gave an interesting presentation on the revitalization of the
city’s South End, and at the beginning of this month Tom Meagher from
Northeast Apartment Advisors gave a presentation on the state of the
multi-family market.  In June, CRE Director and Professor David Geltner will
speak to us about discount rates.  In addition, we held one of our
semi-annual cocktail parties/development site tours at Spaulding & Slye’s
offices and featured the North Point Project.  We plan to hold the spring
party on May 13th at 5:30pm at 100 Cambridge Street, MassDevelopment’s first
Class A Office rehab and mixed-use development.  We are also planning a
Spring Symposium, jointly run with NEWIRE.  Stay tuned for details.

Across the country, we hosted social and educational events in New York,
Miami, Washington DC, and California.  We pair up with the Center on
academic or recruiting visits and our alums have planned separate events as
well.  New York has been especially active co-sponsoring several events with
the MIT Club of NY.

Finally, we are hoping to re-establish a scholarship for a current student
and an occasional social hour for the students.  We believe that providing
students the opportunity to interact with alumni is valuable and integral to
their CRE experience.

We are excited about the Center’s commitment to its alumni and our role in
planning for its future and in the creative programs that they are embarking
on.  We are especially excited about the Center’s upcoming 20th Anniversary
campaign and celebration.  Events will begin late this summer, and we will
begin fundraising next month.  If you have not been tapped to participate or
donate yet, you will be!  We hope you will take advantage of the opportunity
to network with 20 years of leaders in the real estate industry and to show
your support for the Center.

Truly, CRE Alumni are the strength of the Center.  Your membership
demonstrates this support and perpetuates our ability to apply this
strength.  Your dues provide the AACRE with the funds it needs to operate
and continue offering fun events, great networking opportunities, and an
ever-increasing number of real estate resources.  Not only is becoming an
AACRE member the right thing to do for yourself and fellow alums, it could
benefit your bottom line.  You will receive discounted admissions to AACRE
events, 10% off of professional development courses and 50% off of Center
publications.  Memberships run for a calendar year.

This year we have made it easier for you to become a member.  Thanks to
joining the larger MIT Alumni Association, CRE Alumni can pay their dues on
line by clicking on
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/PayDues.dyn?groupID=189 and logging in
using your Infinite Connection login.  (Your login will be the same as your
alumni e-mail and password.  If you’ve not signed up for this, you may do so
at the alumni website http://alum.mit.edu/as/).  Select the dues type you'd
like to pay from the simple, secure, one-page form, enter your billing and
credit card information, and your dues are paid for this fiscal year.  If
you would prefer to complete your membership by mail, click on the “Request
to Pay Dues” option on the dues payment website and you will be sent a form.
If you have questions or comments about becoming a member, please contact
the membership chairs, Lisa Davis ( ldavis at ndevelop.com
<mailto:ldavis at ndevelop.com> ) or Mecky Adnani ( madnani at recapadvisors.com
<mailto:madnani at recapadvisors.com>  ).

Thank you for your continued participation in the Center for Real Estate and
with the AACRE.

With best regards,
Kristin E. Blount
Jay G. Hooper
President
President-Elect
keblount at m-g.com <mailto:keblount at m-g.com>
jhooper at criccapital.com <mailto:jhooper at criccapital.com>

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