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Bisnow Event Concentrates on Planning, Designing, Developing and Constructing Student Housing Units in San Diego
CGS3 Partner Joe von Meier to Serve on Panel at Annual Student Housing Summit
What trends are shaping the student housing and higher education market in San Diego? How have the student housing needs changed in the past few years, and how have these changes affected the surrounding communities? Which government policies affect student housing, and how can these policies benefit the industry?
These are among the compelling questions to be examined at Bisnow’s San Diego Student Housing Summit, to be held from 8 a.m. to Noon, Feb. 12, 2025 at the University of San Diego’s Hahn University Center and Student Life Pavilion.
Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3) partner Joseph von Meier, who represents multi-family and student housing clients across the country, will moderate the event’s first panel discussion from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m., “Developing and Designing The Next Generation Of Student Housing: Re-Imagining Student Living Through Development, Construction, Design and Focusing on The Student Experience.” Von Meier will host a panel of high profile commercial real estate and student housing experts including Hemlata Jhaveri, senior associate vice chancellor, residential, retail, supply chain services, UC San Diego; Alex Leonard, senior director, development, Greystar; Eric Naslund, principal, Studio E; Guy Carpino, engineering principal, Michael Baker International; Jason Dunster, director design integration, McCarthy Building Companies and Chris Sullivan, project director, Sundt.
A second panel, held from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. and moderated by David McCullough, principal of McCullough Landscape Architecture, will concentrate on “Accommodating the Growing Student Body Throughout San Diego: Supply and Demand Dynamics, Increasing Units and Ensuring Space for All Students in the San Diego Region.” Speakers will include Ricky Shabazz, president, San Diego City College; Bob Schulz, university architect and associate vice president of real estate, SDSU; Abbie Hawkins, vice president, development, The Michaels Organization; Rudy Medina, founder and development director, Next Space Development and Richard King, principal, Gensler.
Specializing in the residential development process, von Meier concentrates on high-profile, complex real estate transactions with a focus on student housing, multifamily, luxury residential and retail development and construction.
For more information on the event, visit https://www.bisnow.com/events/san-diego/student-housing/san-diego-student-housing-summit-9354
About Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)
CGS3 is a recognized leader among a new generation of commercial real estate law firms with practice areas covering the entire commercial real estate life cycle, including finance, acquisition/disposition, entity formation, tax, development, land use, leasing, distressed asset workouts and dispute resolution. Earning a reputation as one of California’s leading commercial real estate law firms, CGS3 recruits the state’s top real estate attorneys from both large corporate firms and senior in-house positions. For more information, visit http://www.cgs3.com.