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URL:https://www.laigw.org/events/joint-laigw-and-lai-baltimore-meeting-jun
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SUMMARY:Joint LAIGW and LAI Baltimore Meeting -  Columbia\, MD
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nPlease join Lambda Alpha International's Baltimore Ch
 apter and George Washington (DC) Chapter for a joint June presentation:The
  New Downtown Columbia\n\nWednesday\, June 21\, noon\n\n6100 Merriweather 
 Dr.\, Columbia\, MD overlooking the New Downtown\n\nClick here to get Tick
 ets\nWith the development of its downtown\, Columbia is finally becoming t
 he real city envisioned in 1967 by its founder\, James W. Rouse. The Howar
 d Hughes Corporation is now midway through implementing Howard County's pl
 an to achieve this vision. This plan calls for:\n· 4.3 million square fee
 t of office\n· 1.25 million square feet of retail\n· 6\,250 residential 
 units· 640 hotel keys\n· 60+ acres of outdoor recreation\nPresenter:  \
 n\nGreg Fitchitt\, President of Columbia for The Howard Hughes Corporation
 \n\nMr. Fitchitt has over 20 years of real estate experience including dev
 elopment\, planning\, entitlements\, community and government relations\, 
 leasing\, and design and construction management. Mr. Fitchitt led the eff
 orts resulting in the Howard County Council’s approval in 2016 of a $90 
 million TIF for public infrastructure and a comprehensive plan for afforda
 ble housing in Downtown Columbia\, and most recently secured approval of a
 n additional million square feet of development in Downtown Columbia’s L
 akefront district. Before joining HHC in 2013\, Mr. Fitchitt completed nin
 e shopping center redevelopments in Washington State and Southern Californ
 ia. Mr. Fitchitt led the development of Westfield UTC in La Jolla\, CA\, o
 btaining entitlements for a $1.0 billion LEED-ND Gold mixed-use revitaliza
 tion and completing the $180 million first phase in 2012. Together the Wes
 tfield projects completed under his direction represented over $500 millio
 n in investment.\n\nMr. Fitchitt holds a M.B.A. from UCLA and a B.A. in Ph
 ilosophy from Pomona College. Mr. Fitchitt chairs the Downtown Columbia Pa
 rtnership board and serves on the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Board of
  Directors\, the Howard County Chamber Board of Directors\, and the ULI Tr
 ansit Oriented Development Council for the ULI Baltimore and Washington Di
 strict Councils. He also previously served for ten years on the boards of 
 non-profit affordable housing developers in California.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&nb
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