Mel King Institute - Real Estate Development Seminar - Application
Introduction
Hello and thank you for your interest in the Mel King Institute seminar on Real Estate Development for New Senior Managers and Executives at CDCs, facilitated by community development consultant, Mathew Thall.
This four-session workshop is designed to introduce new senior managers and executives at CDCs with limited real estate development experience to the broad range of real estate development activities of a CDC. Topics covered include the development process, major community development and real estate concepts, an overview of CDC staff and other professionals involved in various stages of development, and the organizational issues and challenges that the executive may confront in overseeing an effective and successful development agenda. The focus of this course is not 'how to be a developer,' but rather on how to provide leadership, oversight and problem-solving support to a real estate development team so that real estate development furthers the CDC's mission.
Session Dates and Approximate Times:
March 9, 2012 - 9:30am-4:30pm
March 28, 2012 - 9:30am-1:00pm
April 13, 2012 - 9:30am-3:30pm
May 4, 2012 - 9:30am-4:30pm
Please answer the following questions and submit a resume/C.V. to melkinginstitute@macdc.org by January 30, 2012. Applicants will be notified of a decision by February 14, 2012.
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Instructor Biography:
Mathew Thall is presently a housing and community development consultant. From 1991 to 2006 he served as Senior Program Director, for the Greater Boston Program of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Previously he served for a decade as the Executive Director of the Fenway CDC in Boston. Prior to that he held planning, policy and research positions with the Cambridge Housing Authority, the court-appointed master in the Perez vs. Boson Housing Authority case and the Laboratory for Psychosocial Studies at Boston College. He began his career in housing and community development as a Housing Management Specialist at the Newark Area Office of HUD. Thall holds a Masters degree in City Planning from MIT and a B.A. from Columbia University. He is currently a Board member of Citizens Housing and Planning Assoc. and the Fensgate Cooperative. Past board memberships include AIDS Housing Corporation, Association for Resident Control of Housing, and the Peter Medoff Dudley Youth Scholarship Fund and Historic Boston Inc.