Category: News
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2024 Spring & Summer Independent Project Residency at the Block House
The Institute for Public Architecture (IPA) offers Spring and Summer Independent Projects Residencies based at the historic Block House on Governors Island. Emerging and mid-career architects, urbanists, landscape architects, designers, and those committed to the public realm in all disciplines are invited to apply. Marc Norman along with other independent selection…
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Housing Affordability Summit
Centering the interconnectedness of community, equity, and the built environment, the National Building Museum convenes diverse thought leaders including Marc Norman for critical conversations on the current challenges and opportunities in the affordable housing crisis. The summit explores how collaborative action can reimagine and build a collective, thriving future. Recognizing that…
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Housing supply ‘can’t keep up with the demand’
Marc Norman was featured on Yahoo Finance. Finance Anchor Rachelle Akuffo discussing the NYC and global real estate market, capital markets in real estate, and the impending Federal rate hikes, and insight into what this means for homebuyers/consumers and the overall future of the housing market. Full video can be accessed here.
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CREFC’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Marc Norman in CREFC’s latest Black History Month Member Spotlight. CREFC’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is charged with ensuring continued progress toward CREFC’s vision of developing policies and programs that promote workplace diversity and inclusion and foster a culture that ensures every voice is welcomed, heard, and respected.…
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56TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON CAPITAL MARKETS IN REAL ESTATE
For over half a century, the NYU Schack Capital Markets Conference has been one of the industry’s preeminent forums on the state of commercial real estate capital markets and investment activity. Once again this year, the conference convened industry leaders for a vigorous debate on global equity and debt capital…
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How Does Design for Social Impact Create Value in the Built Environment?
Environmental, Social and Governance “ESG” has become an important consideration for global real estate and especially in the fast-growing economy and development of New York City. Increasingly, governments, public and private funds, developers and investors are adhering to guidelines, benchmarking and reporting frameworks, supporting the idea that ESG will increasingly…
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Power Players in Residential Real Estate
Marc Norman named as one of the “Power Players in Residential Real Estate” by PoliticsNY. The 2023 Residential Real Estate Power Players list honors the elected and appointed public officials, real estate professionals and founders, lawyers specializing in real estate, nonprofit leaders dedicated to providing fair housing for all, and…
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Housing Justice Futures – Philadelphia Forum on Design, Race, and Climate Change
Philadelphia is the “poorest” large city in the United States, and more than one third of renters are paying over half their income on housing. It also remains at risk to climate change, most notably extreme heat and inland and coastal flooding. This forum examined the historical inequities that precipitated…
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Urban innovation at WRLDCTY 2023
Charting the future of our cities requires great creativity … and is more art than science. Shaping cities for a resilient, thriving future takes a global brain trust of inventive, visionary city-makers. At this event imaginative leaders flipped the script and explored new approaches to urban innovation through labs, talks, roundtables,…
