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The fourth annual LOCUS National Leadership Summit is your opportunity to shake hands and rub elbows with the best, most influential smart growth real estate developers and investors who are creating great, walkable urban places.

During the Summit, you will hear from some of the most successful real estate experts from across the country as they discuss how to seize business opportunities around equitable smart growth development. No other event promises to bring as many opportunities for networking and deal-making as the 2015 LOCUS Leadership Summit.

Deal-making sessions you can look forward to include:

• LOCUS LinkUPs will offer exclusive deal-making sessions designed to connect developers and investors with the next smart growth deals. Featured projects will include transit oriented development opportunities in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, GA.
• The Off-the-Record Sessions will feature Paul Morris, President and CEO, Atlanta Beltline Inc. and Sarosh Olpadwala, Director of Real Estate, DC Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development leading a no-holds-barred style conversation providing participants with innovative and actionable solutions for the most controversial smart growth real estate issues facing the industry today.
• R.E.A.L. Talks will take an in-depth look at the latest financing mechanisms and tools needed to create equitable TOD, manage gentrification through private-sector, place-based solutions. Hear from leading companies like Jonathan Rose Companies, Purpose Built Communities and The Integral Group LLC (see more speakers here).
• “The Pitch” Cocktail Reception will feature new development opportunities presented by the elected officials who know their sites best and are looking for potential developers and/investors.

This is your opportunity to initiate business opportunities with companies already registered to attend:

The LOCUS Leadership Summit will is the premier conference where smart growth deals are made by convening the best real estate industry leaders with top public officials to facilitate high-level advocacy, networking, and new smart growth business opportunities.