on Jason Henderson, Jason Spencer Introduction Hardly a day goes by without the release of a handful of news stories about autonomous vehicles (or AVs for short). The proverbial “tipping point” of awareness has been reached in the public consciousness as AV technology is quickly becoming the new focus of firms from Silicon Valley to Detroit… Continue Reading Autonomous Vehicles and Commercial Real Estate
on The Baker Program in Real Estate will be hosting an information session the morning of Friday, May 6th at Convene in Midtown. Come for the 7:30am Information Session and stay for Networking and the speaker panel, free of charge! Panel guests include William Mack, Harry Macklowe, and Larry Silverstein, with moderation by Richard Baker ’88: Friday,… Continue Reading NYCers: Come Learn About Baker! Cornell Master’s Program in Real Estate
on Buildings are not supposed to look like Vancouver House – they are supposed to be larger at their base than at their top, not the other way around, and they are supposed to have a “regular” form, not one that evolves over the height of the building. For followers of the Westbank Corporation, this atypical building… Continue Reading A Total Work of Art: Baker Program’s Inaugural Trip to Vancouver, Part Three
on One of the principal missions of the Baker Program is to educate future leaders in the real estate industry. To this end, the Baker curriculum is likely the broadest and deepest of any graduate real estate program in the world. Additionally, adjustments made to the curriculum in 2015 are giving students an even more hands-on,… Continue Reading First-year Baker Students Get Hands-on Development Experience in New York City
on As a land grant institution, the success of Cornell University has been intricately linked to real estate since the school’s very inception. With a central campus comprising 745 acres, and a total of 11,000 acres in Tompkins County alone, managing Cornell’s vast real estate portfolio is no small task. For this week’s Distinguished Speaker Series,… Continue Reading Jeremy Thomas to Discuss Cornell Real Estate at This Week’s Distinguished Speaker Series
on Since the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009, multi-family residential properties have led the resurgence of the real estate market; however, some analysts are beginning to wonder how long this trend will continue. To discuss the current state of the multi-family residential market, the Baker Program in Real Estate is excited to welcome B. Kevin Thompson… Continue Reading Baker Program DSS, February 4, 2016: B. Kevin Thompson and Gwyneth Cote of Bell Partners
on On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck New York City. At the time, Manhattan had the largest collection of sustainably-designed buildings in the United States but still incurred $19 billion in storm-related damage. The juxtaposition of this poses the question, “How sustainable is a building that is not designed to be resilient?” Even the most… Continue Reading Is Building Resiliency More Important Than Sustainability?
on Three students from the Baker Program in Real Estate and program director, Dustin Jones, attended the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA two weeks ago. Attending the meeting is part of Jones’s efforts to enhance the program’s visibility by linking it with ULI. As Jones succinctly put it, “We want to be wherever… Continue Reading Baker Program Well-Represented at ULI Fall Meeting