LOS ANGELES-Last year at NAIOP’s SoCal USC vs UCLA Real Estate Challenge, UCLA took home thetitle in front of nearly 400 guests at Town & Gown on the USCcampus in a networking event that was both entertaining and upbeat.This year, USC took home the coveted Silver Shovel.
It was a tie-breaker year for the graduate student teams fromZiman Center for Real Estate at UCLA’s Anderson School of Businessand the Lusk Center at USC’s Marshall School of Business and PriceSchool of Public Policy. Each team had seven wins coming into thecompetition. The USC team’s winning presentation focused ondevelopment of Olympic Commons, a community-oriented andinteractive town center, as its solution to the 2012 challenge.
The challenge site was a Los Angeles County location, where, formany years, residents surrounding Slauson Ave (from La Brea Ave toAngeles Vista Blvd) have advocated that the Slauson corridor beupgraded to reflect the purchasing power and stature of thesurrounding communities.
Continue Reading for Free
Register and gain access to:
- Breaking commercial real estate news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
- Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
- Critical coverage of the property casualty insurance and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, PropertyCasualty360 and ThinkAdvisor
*May exclude premium content
Already have an account?
Sign In Now
© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
Natalie Dolce
Natalie Dolce, editor-in-chief of GlobeSt.com and GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum, is responsible for working with editorial staff, freelancers and senior management to help plan the overarching vision that encompasses GlobeSt.com, including short-term and long-term goals for the website, how content integrates through the company’s other product lines and the overall quality of content. Previously she served as national executive editor and editor of the West Coast region for GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum, and was responsible for coverage of news and information pertaining to that vital real estate region. Prior to moving out to the Southern California office, she was Northeast bureau chief, covering New York City for GlobeSt.com. Her background includes a stint at InStyle Magazine, and as managing editor with New York Press, an alternative weekly New York City paper. In her career, she has also covered a variety of beats for M magazine, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, FashionLedge.com, and Co-Ed magazine. Dolce has also freelanced for a number of publications, including MSNBC.com and Museums New York magazine.
