Colorado Real Estate Journal - March 18, 2015
-CMLA – Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association will host its 24th annual Rocky Mountain Mortgage Lenders Expo April 9. The expo will be held at the Marriott Denver Tech Center, 4900 S.Syracuse St., Denver. The event will feature educational programming, networking events and an expo hall with wholesale and correspondent lenders, marketing and advertising firms, technology providers and support services, for example. The expo is expected to attract more than 1,000 industry professionals. Reggie Rivers, a former NFL running back who played six seasons with the Denver Broncos, will be the keynote speaker. For more information, visit https://cmla.com. -CREJ – Colorado Real Estate Journal will present the 2015 Hotel & Resort Summit & Expo at the Inverness Hotel and Conference Center at 200 Inverness Drive West in Englewood. The April 14 event, from 7:15 a.m. to noon, will be Denver’s largest gathering of hotel owners, developers, property managers, brokers, lenders and other related real estate professionals. Panels include hotel development and investment strategies, the current state of the national and regional lodging industry, a lender and capital markets panel and a panel on architecture, engineering and construction. CREJ also will host the 2015 Health Care and Medical Office Buildings Conference April 21. For more information, visit www.crej.com. -CREW – Commercial Real Estate Women Denver will host Revitalization of Retail, a panel discussion about how Denver’s surging economy is transforming the city’s retail landscape. The April 21 event will feature four of the region’s top retail developers and real estate experts, who will discuss trends in the sector and offer advice for navigating the future of retail in Colorado and the nation. Speakers include Dorit Fischer Makovsky, real estate broker and manager of NAI Shames Makovsky; Bill Johnson, cofounder of WC Johnson LLC; Anna Schmautz, director of design and construction of Quiznos; and Sean Sjodin, director of acquisitions Nex-Gen Properties. The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Curtis, 1405 Curtis St. in Denver. For more information, visit http://crewdenver.org. -ULI Colorado will host its second annual Impact Awards April 30 at the Seawell Grand Ballroom, 1350 Arapahoe St., Denver. The Impact Awards program is modeled after the ULI Awards for Excellence and recognizes only those projects that realize ULI best practices while providing successful design and economic models. The program will showcase and highlight the best development projects in Colorado. Beverly Carlson of First American Title Insurance Co. and Stacy Stout of StoutStrategies are co-chairing the event. For more information, visit http://colorado.uli.org. -USGBC Colorado – U.S. Green Building Council Colorado Chapter will host the Rocky Mountain Green 2015 Conference April 2-3. The two-day conference, held at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, will explore green building issues from net zero energy to tactical urbanism and beyond. Attendees can earn GBCI/Real Estate/AIA continuing education hours. This year, a commercial real estate track, which will showcase the latest strategies in green building for brokers, property managers and developers, has been added. For more information, visit http://usgbccolorado.org.