/24-7PressRelease/ - ATLANTA, GA, July 21, 2008 - The International Council of Shopping Centers ("ICSC") will sponsor the 2008 Global Diversity Summit (GDS) in Commercial Real Estate kick-off breakfast that will focus on market strength and development opportunities in underserved urban markets at 7:30 A.M. on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mayors Shirley Franklin of Atlanta and Willie H. Herenton of Memphis will headline a panel of experts that will discuss redevelopment opportunities in underserved urban markets using Social Compact's "Drill Down" methodology and the ICSC/Social Compact "Inside Site Selection" joint research report. Joining Mayors Franklin and Herenton will be Myriam Simmons of Target Corporation, Keith Sellars of the Washington, DC Economic Partnership and Kim Willis of Johnson Development.
3rd Annual Global Diversity Summit
ICSC/Social Compact Breakfast
Featuring Mayors Shirley Franklin (Atlanta) and Willie H. Herenton (Memphis)
July 22, 2008
7:30 A.M. to 8:30 A.M.
Georgia World Congress Center
285 Andrew Young International Boulevard, N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia
"We are very pleased to have ICSC as a sponsor," said Trenna Ross, Global Diversity Co-Chair and Vice-President Retail of Red Rock Global in Atlanta. "The breakfast session will really set the tone for the day. With a big focus on domestic growth throughout the morning sessions, participants will be educated on what's going on around the country."
The 2008 GDS is entitled "Reinventing Real Estate - Faces and Places", and will bring together minority commercial real estate professionals with a diverse background to exchange knowledge and discuss future challenges facing the multi-trillion dollar industry.
For more information on the 2008 Global Diversity Summit in Commercial Real Estate, please go to our website at http://www.globaldiversitysummit.org.
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About the Global Diversity Summit
Created in 2005, the Global Diversity Summit unites commercial real estate professionals throughout the world to focus on increasing diversity in the industry. The organization believes that diversity in commercial real estate can be achieved through education and networking with the world's senior-level minority professionals, sharing their success stories and ideas on future challenges with the industry's emerging minority talent. For more information, please go to our website at http://www.globaldiversitysummit.org.
About International Council of Shopping Centers
Founded in 1957, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is the global trade association of the shopping center industry. Its 75,000 members in the U.S., Canada and more than 80 other countries include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, lenders, retailers and other professionals as well as academics and public officials. As the global industry trade association, ICSC links with more than 25 national and regional shopping center councils throughout the world.
About Social Compact
Social Compact is a coalition of business leaders from across the country who are promoting successful business investment in lower-income communities for the benefit of current residents.
For years, Social Compact sponsored the highly competitive and prestigious Social Compact Awards that recognized successful business performance and investment in America's under-served neighborhoods. Social Compact is now further leveraging its leadership's combined business expertise to address some of the key impediments to private investment in inner-city communities, namely, negative stereotypes - reinforced by poverty and deficiency data coupled with a lack of dependable business-oriented market information -- and an absence of effective inner-city market analysis models.
Social Compact addresses these issues through its inner-city neighborhood market analysis, the DrillDown, and through municipal and community trainings and consulting, and contributions to community development innovation.
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