Alexis Volen is the chief operating officer for CIRE Equity, a real estate private equity firm, and president of CREW San Diego. She lets us know the best advice she’s ever been given and why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are so important….Read More
By Ciara Contreras
“We're at a moment of great transition.” These are the words Dr. Nikia Clarke used to describe San Diego’s economic landscape. The senior vice president of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. and executive director of World Trade Center San Diego shared this sentiment at CREW San Diego’s recent program “What’s Happening in San Diego and What it Means for Commercial Real Estate.”…Read More
By Ciara Contreras
Every four years, San Diego's regional planning agency, SANDAG, updates its long-term forecast that underpins its regional plan. At a recent CREW San Diego luncheon, Naomi Young, principal economist at SANDAG, presented the latest long-term forecast. The forecast will be included in, and help guide, SANDAG's upcoming 2025 Regional Plan….Read More
By Ciara Contreras
Who's responsible for the soft landing our economy just might be having? We are, because we want it.
Speaking at the invitation of CREW San Diego recently, CBRE's global client strategist and senior economic advisor, Spencer Levy, floated this idea to a crowd of commercial real estate professionals at the San Diego Central Library….Read More
By Genevieve Guoin
Obtaining badassery in your professional and personal life requires a journey that is like progressing in the martial arts, this year's CREW San Diego keynote speaker Jennifer Cassetta shared. The author of "The Art of Badassery," Cassetta instructed attendees on how to unleash their mojo and the potential they're born with….Read More
By Genevieve Guoin
CREW San Diego's recent mid-year real estate economic outlook program focused on life science and technology markets. Moderator Ciara Contreras from Qualcomm led three expert panelists through evocative questions to uncover actionable market information….Read More
By Genevieve Guoin
When a public entity and a private developer team up to create a building, it's called a Public-Private Partnership, or P3. Recently, CREW San Diego assembled a panel of speakers who have participated in P3 developments to explain how and why P3 developments happen….Read More
By Genevieve Guoin
"San Diego is going through a transformation."
That comment from Gary London, senior principal of London Moeder Advisors, summed up the discussion at CREW San Diego's 2023 Economic Forecast event….Read More
CREW San Diego, a membership organization working to support professional women in the field of commercial real estate, has announced its board of directors for 2023. Molly Addington, Wells Fargo Bank's wealth treasury management national sales manager, will lead the board as its president….Read More
By Tracy Morran
Last month, architects from Walter P Moore and Miller Hull, as well as an attorney from Sheppard Mullin, spoke at an event hosted by CREW San Diego about achieving net-zero emissions. Since real estate accounts for nearly 40% of the world's emissions, the topic was especially important for the gathering of commercial real estate professionals….Read More
By Tracy Morran
How did the economy do last year? JLL's chief economist, Ryan Severino, told the audience at a recent CREW San Diego Economic Forecast luncheon the economy was "confused" and presented conflicting indictors. Overall, though, his forecast was positive….Read More
By Tracy Morran
There are hashmarks on the timeline of your life when things change forever. That's how Carrie Bobb opened her recent talk for CREW San Diego titled "How to Create a Social Impact with Your Business." It's a topic close to her heart for Carrie, founder and CEO of Carrie Bobb & Co., a San Diego-based brokerage firm creating memorable experiences through retail leasing….Read More
By Tracy Morran
Imagine you meet up in a remote location with a team of people, and you all have about a week to get to a distant finish line by trekking, biking, paddling and other physical endurance methods, all while making sure your whole team stays within 50 yards of each other from start to finish.
This is exactly what Robyn Benincasa did... multiple times... by choice….Read More
By Ellycia Halden & Laura Andrews
Effective communication is a critical component to achieving success in one's life and career.
That was the message driven home at a recent CREW San Diego virtual seminar called "Winning Communication & Strategies for Enhancing Your Career." The event brought together local leaders in commercial real estate and communications to explore how leveraging communication skills and strategies can enhance a professional's career, whether they are starting out or a seasoned industry veteran….Read More
By Hallie Putterman & Laura Vavrunek
CREW San Diego hosted a panel of expert speakers recently to explain the WELL Building Standard and why it's generating so much buzz. What is WELL? According to the International WELL Building Institute, the WELL Building Standard "is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being, through air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort and mind."….Read More
By Tracy Morran
"2021 will be better than 2020" is how Spencer Levy, chairman of Americas Research and Senior Economic Advisor for CBRE, opened his annual economic forecast at a virtual CREW San Diego seminar on Jan. 26….Read More
While COVID-19 has affected everything about the way people conduct lives, there are bright spots that could last until after the pandemic has disappeared. During a Zoom meeting sponsored by the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, in conjunction with CREW San Diego, four female executives, whose companies are headquartered from Irvine to Paris, discussed how to survive and thrive…..Read More (subscription required)
By Rebecca Bodemann
Mixed-use streets, pop-out parklets and indoor-outdoor shops. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated public space design trends that were already percolating…..Read More
Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) San Diego is taking a leading role in growing the number of women in commercial real estate. The chapter -- one of 77 in CREW's international network -- cinched the No. 1 spot for being the first chapter to complete the CREW Network Chapter Challenge…..Read More (subscription required)
Panelists at a CREW San Diego virtual forum Tuesday were highly critical of Proposition 15, the proposed split-roll tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot that would allow commercial properties worth more than $3 million to be assessed at fair market value….Read More (subscription required)
