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Workshop Review: Financial Modeling for Real Estate Development
Want to build your understanding of real estate development deal analysis? Interested in starting your own speculative development project? This online session, led by Brick & Wonder member, Stephon Smith, covered the fundamentals of commercial real estate (CRE) financial model design. It focused on the key elements that are most often omitted from financial models, including...
Workshop Review: Newlab – A Public Affairs Case Study
Following a Brick & Wonder Site Tour of Newlab in the Brooklyn Navy Yards in February 2024, we decided to share a Public Affairs Case Study of the Newlab development project. Public Affairs and Partnerships are often overlooked aspects of taking a real estate development project from concept to commissioned building. While the designers toil away in schematics…
Workshop Review: Branding the Built Environment
Brand is as essential as it can seem ephemeral. How do we define it, craft it, and drive its visibility in a noisy and competitive landscape? Brand strategy matters to businesses – and to buildings – and there isn’t a fixed formula for making it work. In this March 2024 workshop, Alexandra Thom, Executive Creative Director at Revolver, walked through…
Workshop Review: Cultural Projects
Cultural spaces hold a special place in our hearts, and for good reason: they are spaces devoted entirely to the joy of human expression and creation. They are also spaces to which access is largely democratic. Though great architecture can create exceptional private homes, luxury condo developments, cutting-edge office buildings, and even exceptional infrastructure, museums and…
Workshop Review: How to Transition Your Company on Your Terms
On July 6th 2023, we hosted Brick & Wonder members for an online Workshop focused on business transition planning, exploring the ins and outs of transitioning a company on your own terms. 100 percent of business owners will leave their company one day! But few are prepared. When you’re ready to sell, the company may…
Workshop Review: Social Media and Branding for the Built Environment
On June 29th, 2023, we invited all Brick & Wonder members to join us for a Zoom Workshop exploring social media and branding as it pertains to the built environment industry.
The social media landscape is fast-paced and ever-changing. It can be challenging to follow and keep up with, but when used to its fullest capacity it can be incredibly powerful.
Workshop Review: What is a Fractional CFO
Increasingly, business owners are realizing that, whether they have a CFO or not, the role exists within their business, and they are probably filling that role themselves.