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A Unique Conference about Preparing for the Future for U.S., Canada and Mexico Corporate and Organization Leaders
in the North American Development Industry Cluster

Guanajuato, Mexico
September 25/26, 2008

Co-Hosted by:
Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC and Mexico
U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Green Building Finance Consortium
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
Center for Urban Innovation

  • What if real estate value in the near-future was responding to some significantly different benchmarks than it does presently?
  • What if a building’s or a real estate portfolio’s ‘energy footprint’ dominated the valuation matrix and impacted on viability?
  • What if other transportation modes, and not the car, became the central tool for urban mobility?
  • What if the world’s ‘energy map’ changes, prompting dramatic shifts in North American lifestyle and workstyle?

These, and similar questions, will receive rigorous, analytical consideration at the important industry cluster conference: Gaining Ground—Sustainability and the Future of Real Estate.

The conference—limited to 200 corporate and organizational leaders from the US, Canada and Mexico—will be held at the historic Camino Real Hotel in beautiful Guanajuato, Mexico (2-hr. flight from Houston) on September 25/26, 2008.

It is an indication of the gravity of this theme that the event is co-hosted by the Urban Land Institute (Washington, DC and Mexico); US-Mexico Chamber of Commerce; Green Building Finance Consortium; Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; and the Center for Urban Innovation.

This conference will leapfrog the virtues of green building to discuss sustainability as a significantly new style of business thinking and decision-making—ready to sweep the business world because it has to. At Gaining Ground, sustainability will be presented in the context of real estate value, principally as an ‘insurance policy’—that is, a strategy for increased organizational resilience and ‘bounce’ in the face of unanticipated, impending conditions facing the industry whose impacts have yet to be carefully understood.

Enriched by top-rank presenters, Gaining Ground will engage you in a two-day conversation about the future. It will focus on some of the critical ‘what-ifs’ that may transform the entire landscape upon which we conduct business.

This ‘shirtsleeves’ event promises extraordinary quality of conversation and business networking, authenticity, and great takeaway value. You will wish to attend if you are a corporate or organizational leader in:

  • Real estate development
  • Finance
  • Investment and portfolio management
  • Insurance and re-insurance
  • Property services
  • Valuation
  • Utilities sector
  • Natural resource management
  • Urban governance
  • Land use planning and architecture
  • Engineering and project management
  • Universities and research institutes
  • Real estate marketing
  • Industry media