Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate (MBIRE) won first place in the Graduate Division of the 12th annual Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation Real Estate Challenge, which culminated with final presentations on Saturday, April 23, at Wintrust, 231 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago.
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Jenna Goebig is described as a trailblazer and change maker. She has been involved with the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation for nearly 10 years, first as a student beneficiary and now as a lay leader. She first engaged with the Foundation as a student participant in the Real Estate Challenge. Soon after, she volunteered to lead the Real Estate Challenge, helping it to evolve and impact more students like her.
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This year’s Challenge site, in a historically under-invested Chicago corridor, is a five-parcel assemblage totaling approximately 15.5-acres, or 675,000 square feet of land. The site currently consists of a single-story retail center, surface parking lots, a vacant, unimproved site, and a community recreation center with ample outdoor green space and play space (YMCA).
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Cornell and Fordham were among 11 teams from 10 universities nationwide to participate in the program. Each winning team was awarded $5,000 in scholarships, made possible by Wintrust Commercial Real Estate, toward their university’s real estate program.
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Student groups from 11 universities competed in the 11th annual Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation Real Estate Challenge on Saturday, April 10 to create a hypothetical master plan for a five-parcel site in Chicago’s South Side Woodlawn community. Cornell University won the undergraduate division and Fordham University won the graduate division. Each university was awarded $5,000 in scholarships for their real estate programs.
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