Real Share Green Buildings - Green Initiatives

No one can dispute the importance of green initiatives to our environment. But real estate practitioners have a dual challenge in that they must embrace sustainability and maintain their fiduciary responsibility. Presented by Real Estate Media —publishers of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com— RealShare GREEN BUILDINGS will gather leading commercial real estate firms, as well as vendors and suppliers, architects, city planners and economic development officials for a full-day event of panel sessions and networking.

Topics will include:

• The critical challenges of ensuring a successful green asset
• How office, industrial, multifamily and retail asset owners, investors and developers can both better their ROI
• Breaking down the costs of green improvements and designs and how to get them financed
• How brokers can position themselves to gain new agency or tenant rep assignments through understanding green elements
• The challenges and benefits of retrofitting
• How to navigate through green building construction from site selection to planning to approval
• What new green and energy-saving elements and design concepts have been put to practice successfully
• Service providers share cost-effective options for the processing and delivery of a facility's water, plumbing, lighting, heating and cooling

Financing and investing in green buildings.

Reality in the debt and equity markets continues to be a flood of capital seeking deals of all sorts and increasingly, value-add deals that include green buildings. How does a building being green impact the financing of that sale and deal, and how are investors--both buyers and sellers--looking at the deal compared to a non-green asset. Will there come a day when a certain class of investors will only look at buying green buildings? Will green deals set better financing terms than non-green? Leading lenders and investors of all stripes will discuss new practices, mitigating risks, how they're getting deals done, and assessments of current and near-future markets for financing and investing in green buildings.