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Diversity Summit Seeks Growth

ATLANTA-Three-day July event will bring together minority commercial real estate professionals.

By Carl Cronan | Updated on May 15, 2008

ATLANTA-The third-annual Global Diversity Summit in Commercial Real Estate is scheduled for July 21-23 at the Georgia World Congress Center. Last year, more than 500 people attended the conference.

The theme of this year’s summit is “Reinventing Real Estate-Faces and Places,” bringing together minority commercial real estate professionals with diverse backgrounds to exchange knowledge and discuss future challenges facing the industry. The itinerary includes a panel discussion on diversity to be led by human resources executives with Simon Property Group Inc.

Trenna Ross, co-chair of the GDS and a broker with Atlanta-based Red Rock Global LLC, says she has set a goal to grow this year’s summit exponentially by increasing individual registrations, particularly among professionals with mainstream commercial real estate firms. Programs such as GDS and the Real Estate Associate Program (REAP) have helped raise diversity awareness within the industry, Ross tells GlobeSt.com. Progress is being made, she says, although it appears small because commercial real estate has lacked diversity for so long.

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