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Welcome to our new CREW NEWS! We hope you like the new format and encourage you to send feedback and suggestions for the future to
[email protected]
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2017 Women's Leadership Symposium!
by Liz Steele
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CREW Richmond is pleased to present the fourth installment of the Leadership Symposium on November 8, 2017 from 7:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. As in prior years, we are fortunate to secure an impressive line-up of speakers and panelists who will enlighten us and provide the tools to enhance our leadership skills. Whether you have been in your given industry for many years or are just starting out, there is something here for everyone. I promise!
This year’s keynote speaker, Amy K. Hutchens, a.k.a.
AmyK
, is a former executive of a billion dollar global consumer products company, an acclaimed author and a sought after national and international speaker with clients such as AT&T, Expedia, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Wells Fargo, Walmart and many more. AmyK focuses on leadership development, healthy team cultures, sales and innovative thinking. She travels the world helping senior executives lead and collaborate more effectively. AmyK will provide us with the tools to ignite brilliance in our leadership and in our communication.
Program participants will again have the opportunity to attend one of three concurrent breakout sessions designed to provide practical solutions for managing and organizing our lives for both professional and personal success. These sessions are as follows: “
Organizing Basics- A Holistic Approach” – presented by Kristen Ziegler, Owner, Minima;
“Cultivating Resiliency in Life and Relationships”- presented by Wanda Ortwine, Chief Family Officer, The Luck Companies; and
“ Leading From Where You Are” – presented by Kathy Greenier and Lesley Bruno, Consultants, Floricane LLC.
The Symposium will conclude with a panel discussion of issues relating to women and their leadership roles. This panel is comprised of prominent local women in leadership positions: Greta Harris with the Better Housing Coalition, Toni R. Aradell with Bon Secours Virginia and Dr. Cynthia Newbille, Councilwoman with the City of Richmond. They will provide us with valuable insight from their collective experiences as successful women leaders in their fields. The panel will be moderated by Tara Piurko, Partner in the Commercial Real Estate Group at Blake Cassels and Graydon, LLP. Tara is also the CREW Network, President-Elect for the International Board.
This promises to be an event not to be missed and I look forward to seeing you there!
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Dress for Success
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CREW Richmond
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A Good Fit!
by Meg O'Brien
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The Sponsorship committee was searching for a partner organization earlier this year but, fortunately, we didn’t have to search for very long. We were immediately drawn to
Dress for Success Central Virginia
and their mission statement “to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.” How many times could I have used this support in my professional career? That number is only surpassed by the number of times I’ve received support from my CREW network.
Dress for Success is working for women in Richmond by giving them a hand up, not a hand out and it was an immediate fit for the CREW Richmond Community Service committee partnership search. Although a small organization, Dress for Success impacts the lives of women all over Richmond in many different ways. It’s not just clothing. They provide sustained support including training, GED review/testing, interview preparation, and mentoring beyond the job. CREW is dedicated to making an impact in Richmond as well and by partnering with Dress for Success, our generous donation from the annual Summer Social is affecting the lives of over 300 women in the Richmond area. We are helping women enter the workforce with confidence!
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Community Service needs your feedback!
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A short time ago, CREW Richmond Community Service Committee sent an online survey requesting information about other organizations and/or charities our membership is passionate about supporting. Your Community Service committee understands high-performing people are pulled in many directions and how you choose to spend your free time is an important decision. To that end, we would like to more closely align the CREW Community Service initiatives with those that membership is already pursuing.
CREW Richmond Members, if you haven’t done so already, please take 2 minutes to complete the survey.
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CREW Richmond Members in the News
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Congratulations to CREW RVA Members!
Liz Steele
of
Stewart Title
and
Lisa Frydenborg
of
John B. Levy and Company
recently collaborated on a $26 MM development- “Artisan Hill”- which is located in Fulton Hill at the intersection of Union Street and Carlisle Avenue, next to Fulton Hill School. The developer on the project is Margaret Freund of Fulton Hill Properties, LLC. It is a mixed-use, mixed-income development which involves ground up construction of two buildings, offering a total of 204 apartments. Liz provided title and settlement services while Lisa coordinated with VHDA for the financing on this project.
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CREW Richmond Lunch Meetings
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August Lunch Meeting
Women in the Workforce: Navigating Institutional and Cultural Norms
- by Elizabeth Carr
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On August 16, 2017, CREW Richmond welcomed Mary A. Hermann, J.D., Ph.D, Associate Professor of Counseling and Special Education at VCU, for an engaging lesson on navigating institutional and cultural norms relating to gender in the workplace. Mary set the stage by explaining the way the gender revolutions of the 1960s and the 1980s were not successful in helping women navigate and excel in the workforce.
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Today, the challenges include extreme work cultures derived from the technological age and post-recession fears, workplace discrimination, the lack of workplace policies protecting women, the challenges and demands of motherhood and the cultural pressure to be young and thin. Despite those challenges, women continue to provide specific benefits to the workplace – excitement and perspective. Mary provided a number of valuable strategies for successfully navigating the workforce as a woman:
- Take care of your health.
- Maintain perspective and remember that social forces put pressure on you.
- Retain power – don’t apologize!
- Negotiate your compensation.
- Reclaim your ideas – don’t let a colleague appropriate your ideas!
- Engage in supportive relationships.
- Get help – avoid “superwoman” tendencies!
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In addition, Mary provided the following list of resources:
What Works for Women at Work (Williams & Dempsey)
Knowing Your Value (Mika Brzezinski)
The Confidence Code (Katty Kay & Claire Shipman)
Essentialism (Greg McKeown)
Drop the Ball (Tiffany Dufu)
The How of Happiness (Sonja Lyubomirsky)
The Well Life (Briana & Peter Borten)
Thrive (Arianna Huffington)
Good Enough is the New Perfect (Becky Gillespie & Hollee Temple)
The Mommy Myth (Susan Douglas & Meredith Michaels)
Lactivism (Courtney Jung)
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CBRE’s Spencer Levy Highlights Trends At September Luncheon
- by Chandra Lantz
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Does 2017 have “curve benders” in store for us? Spencer Levy, CBRE’s Americas Head of Research, provided CREW Richmond with his market-leading insight on real estate trends at a luncheon presentation on September 20, 2017.
Mr. Levy addressed many current real estate trends, including those that could impact Richmond in the months ahead. He noted that while we often focus on international political events, natural disasters and political developments as market impacts, the trends that really matter are much more localized in nature. Local trends, he noted, drive local growth. “Local is the new global,” he quipped.
Mr. Levy noted the following trends that can determine whether we can grow faster in the days ahead then we are today:
- Productivity has been trending mostly down for the last twenty years, slowed by automation and an aging population.
- The low growth trend will continue unless changed by innovation or fiscal stimulus.
- Young talent is what attracts employers to a region: cost is not even a top 5 consideration.
- Cross border trade in goods is down as automation replaces cheap labor and economies seek to emerge as more profitable service leaders.
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- Emerging cities are fueled by influxes of global money, which spurs development, growth and a diversified economy.
- Global money is going to traditional hot-beds like NYC, but it also is going to cities with young talent and long-term stable yields can be found
- Health care continues as the fastest growing industry.
Continuing, Mr. Levy waded into the debate about when the next recession might take place, noting economists place it from 2 to 4 years out. Until another down cycle comes and goes, or businesses agree that one isn’t coming, growth will lag because businesses will not invest optimistically.
Mr. Levy also will be speaking at the CREW National Convention in Houston later this month.
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On July 12th, 2017 the Summer Dine Around was held at The Boathouse at Rocketts Landing.
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CREW Richmond
2018 Board of Directors
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President -
Ginny Johnston
Past President -
Rowena Fratarcangelo
President-Elect/2019 President -
Brenda Karp
Secretary/Historian -
Jessica Ewald
Treasurer -
Elizabeth Lewis
Director: Community Service -
Lacey Martin
Director: Membership -
Brenda Hartless
Director: Media Relations -
Monica Marks
Director: Programs -
Kaelyn Davis
Director: Communications -
Renee McDowell
Director: Sponsorship -
Meg O'Brien
Director: Network Liaison -
Chris Hairston-White
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New CREW Richmond Members
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PPC Scholarship Recipient
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Congratulations to Statia Gibson, recipient of the 2017 Past Presidents Council scholarship for CREW Convention in Houston, Texas.
A special thanks to the members of the Past Presidents Council for their generosity in giving personally to fund this scholarship. True leaders, each and every one of you.
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At
Williams Mullen
, our goal is to help your business thrive in today’s economy. Success is based on finding workable solutions for you. Representing more than 75 practices and industries, Williams Mullen focuses on finding answers and solutions for your business and legal issues. Our firm has 230 attorneys in offices across North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Depending on your needs, attorneys from any of our offices can be called on to help you.
With more than 40 attorneys firm wide, Williams Mullen’s Real Estate team provides innovative, cost-effective assistance in all legal matters relating to real estate. We regularly counsel clients – from private and public companies, government entities, institutional and private investors to lenders, servicers and developers – on all real estate matters, including leasing, sales, acquisition, development and finance, property development, land assemblage, zoning and land use. Our real estate team is intimately familiar with the unique aspects of tax-deferred exchanges, multi-state acquisitions and dispositions, and syndicated tax credits. We combine our skills, when appropriate, with those of related practices, such as our tax, construction, corporate, litigation, bankruptcy and environmental practices.
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In late August we gathered once again for our Second Annual Sponsorship Appreciation Social, held at Travinia Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar at Willow Lawn. The attendance was just shy of 40 people who came from the 33 companies that sponsored CREW Richmond in 2017. With just a few brief words and big thanks from the Sponsorship Committee, folks were able to enjoy cocktails, a decadent display of food and great conversation.
The Sponsorship Appreciation Social is meant to be just that…the ability for CREW Richmond to show its appreciation for what you’re doing to educate, advocate and advance women in commercial real estate. We know there are many associations out there so it is an honor and privilege that so many companies choose to invest in CREW and its mission each year.
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If you’d like to be a part of this next year, we are now accepting sponsorship commitments for 2018! Please contact Renee McDowell with Dominion Service Company for more information,
[email protected] or 804-745-0007.
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CREW National
-by Loretta Cataldi
It’s that time again for the top women to the CREW Network Conference. This conference opens the opportunity to network and get inspired with over 1,000 commercial real estate professional women attending from around the world. You will get to learn what is going on in the market and participate in sessions with a strong line-up of speakers. The Academy-award winning actor and advocate Geena Davis will be the Keynote speaker and will address during lunch on Gender in Media. She is Founder and Chair of this non-profit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media supporting the increase of female characters in film and television. During the conference, you will enjoy hearing from Amazon’s Executive, TalentSmart co-founder and several Commercial Real Estate experts. The conference will be held October 25-27, 2017 in Houston, Texas at the Marriott Marquis Houston. This is a must attend event. If you can’t this year, future attendance would be recommended.
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CREW Careers
-by Jessie Ewald
CREW Careers is an innovative program that exposes young women to careers in commercial real estate. As the industry continues to evolve, it is important that we invest in the next generation and ensure that women of diverse backgrounds and experiences are bringing their unique perspectives into the industry to help turn some of the challenges that commercial real estate will face into tremendous opportunities.
This year our program was held at Hourigan Construction’s Office and featured the Dominion Tower Project. CREW Richmond hosted 40 young women for a half-day session during which they formed small groups and presented on the best use of ground level retail space. Thank you to all the volunteers!
LIZ STEELE – Stewart Title
ROWENA FRATARCANGELO – Greater Richmond Partnership
JESSIE EWALD – Draper Aden Associates
MONIQUE JOHNSON – BHC
JENNIFER PARHAM – Spotts Fain
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SAMANTHA BROWN – Community Housing Partners
KAREN BUNCH – Gumenick Properties
LISA RUGGLES – CoStar Group
JESS BUCHTA – Dominion (non-member)
TAYLOR HAHN – Hourigan (non-member)
KATIE CARLETON – Hourigan (non-member)
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Network Tool
-by Jessie Ewald
Are you getting the most out of your CREW Network Membership? The CREW Biz Community has been revamped and is accessible by members only. CREW Biz includes blogs from Network Leaders, an interactive discussion board, a membership directory, and more. If you are looking for a way to broaden your network, connect with other CREW Chapters and make some deals, I highly recommend you create or update your CREW Biz profile!
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CREW Richmond Completes
CREW Network Chapter Challenge
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Thank you to all who have donated to Foundation so far. We have reached our trifecta goal, with the last milestone of gaining 50% member donation participation. We could not have done it without you! CREW Richmond is the 18
th
Chapter to reach this milestone.
By focusing their efforts to increase awareness of the Foundation’s powerful reach, members have raised thousands of dollars and positively impacted the CRE industry, introducing many females to commercial real estate and the career opportunities available to them. We invite your chapter to join the growing list of CREW Network chapters helping to influence the success of the commercial real estate industry by advancing the achievements of women. Complete one of the challenges, or all three! Any amount of participation is viewed as a vote of support for the Foundation's mission.
If you have not contributed yet and wish to do so, you can make your donation
here
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Keep your calendars up to date with our upcoming events....
Leadership Symposium
Holiday Party
CREW Richmond January Lunch Meeting - Speed Networking
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