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Ed Schwartz
Hallmark & Johnson
Focus: Reuse of Obsolete Properties. As a Vice President of Hallmark and Johnson, Ed Schwartz has participated in more than 300 sales and leasing transactions. Recent sales include a vacant hospital converted to 74 condo units, redevelopment of a 34,000 square foot, multi story commercial building into ground floor retail and upper story offices, and site development for Walgreen’s stores.
Carl Templer
Templer CommunicationsFocus: Downtown Management and Marketing. Carl Templer manages downtowns in Wisconsin and is skilled and experienced at business recruitment, developer recruitment, marketing merchant support and overall downtown organization.
Ron Kysiak
Consultant Focus: Business Incubators and University Sponsored Research Park Development. As an Executive Board Member of the Council of Urban Economic Development with over 30 year’s experience in revitalizing America’s cities, Mr. Kysiak has a keen understanding of the proper structuring of complex redevelopment financing. He has been instrumental in the development of public/private development partnerships in New Haven, Connecticut; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Evanston, Illinois and Warsaw, Poland.
Susan Friedman
Susan Friedman Associates, Inc.
Focus: Feasibility Analysis for Retail, Office and Residential Development Proposals. As a director of consumer research for Homart, a national real estate development firm, Ms. Friedman developed leasing brochures and tenant specific presentations for key properties. She has been involved in numerous office project feasibility studies and has conducted resident surveys in Lemont, Riverdale, Park Ridge and Roselle, Illinois.
Steve Qualkinbush
New Channels Realty, L.L.C.
Focus: Inner City Retail Development. The first new movie theaters in inner city Chicago and a new shopping center at 79th and Halstead were the direct result of Mr. Qualkinbush’s development expertise. He is adept at seeing the opportunities in under served markets and packaging financing to cover the investment gap.
Martha Rosenberg
Martha Rosenberg Advertising
Focus: Creative Advertising for Government Organizations. As the marketing director for EVMark, Ms. Rosenberg created the heralded campaign promoting downtown Evanston. That campaign included magazine and newspaper ads, brochures and point of purchase collateral pieces. She is adept at obtaining favorable coverage in television and newspaper media.

 

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