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At NAREE, CRE Sustainability Is Broadly Defined

NEW ORLEANS--For the National Association of Real Estate Editors' annual conference the theme is sustainable cities and it is being held at a most fitting location.

By Erika Morphy | erikamorphy | Updated on June 10, 2016

A NAREE panel A NAREE panel

NEW ORLEANS–This year the National Association of Real Estate Editors‘ ongoing annual conference is being held in New Orleans. It is a fitting location given the conference’s theme, which is Sustainable Cities. And New Orleans, after all, is not only still standing but thriving some eleven years after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore the Mississippi Gulf Coast causing the levees to break and flood the city.

Of course, the story of New Orleans’ survival and recovery does not automatically  correlate with the commercial real estate industry’s understanding of sustainability. We hear sustainability and we think LEED standards and Energy Star and project points so on. A more accurate definition of sustainability is the capacity to endure and as with NAREE’s selection of New Orleans as host city for its conference, this definition as applied to CRE is particularly apt these days.

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