The TrendCzar is currently on vacation. With the BeijingOlympics upon us, we thought we would revisit an earlier post aboutChina. Comments?
Broken China (Originally posted February11, 2008)
For the past several years, China has been the hot place togo for opportunity investors. All the major investment managershave lured institutional money into the emerging economic goliath.No doubt the arguments seem compelling for China continuing to growinto a dominant power over the next quarter century. Unprecedenteddevelopment builds out and modernizes the country's cities andentirely new urban areas mushroom as rural populations move toindustrial job sites. An evolving middle class moves into high riseapartments and shops in new shopping centers. Office buildings popup to accommodate commercial expansion and more hotels are neededfor all the offshore visitors -- business and tourist. Beijing getsa total facelift for the upcoming Olympics. The powers that be alsofund massive infrastructure projects -- a highway network, theequivalent of the US interstate system, has been built in just thepast decade; mass transit facilities, high speed rail lines, andstate-of-the-art airports start operations.
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Jonathan D. Miller
A marketing communication strategist who turned to real estate analysis, Jonathan D. Miller is a foremost interpreter of 21st citistate futures – cities and suburbs alike – seen through the lens of lifestyles and market realities. For more than 20 years (1992-2013), Miller authored Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the leading commercial real estate industry outlook report, published annually by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He has lectures frequently on trends in real estate, including the future of America's major 24-hour urban centers and sprawling suburbs. He also has been author of ULI’s annual forecasts on infrastructure and its What’s Next? series of forecasts. On a weekly basis, he writes the Trendczar blog for GlobeStreet.com, the real estate news website. Outside his published forecasting work, Miller is a prominent communications/institutional investor-marketing strategist and partner in Miller Ryan LLC, helping corporate clients develop and execute branding and communications programs. He led the re-branding of GMAC Commercial Mortgage to Capmark Financial Group Inc. and he was part of the management team that helped build Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, Inc. (subsequently Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, Inc.) into the leading real estate advisor to pension funds and other real institutional investors. He joined the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. in 1981, moving to Equitable Real Estate in 1984 as head of Corporate/Marketing Communications. In the 1980's he managed relations for several of the country's most prominent real estate developments including New York's Trump Tower and the Equitable Center. Earlier in his career, Miller was a reporter for Gannett Newspapers. He is a member of the Citistates Group and a board member of NYC Outward Bound Schools and the Center for Employment Opportunities.
