Annual conference is a major benefit for NYSCAR members

By Maureen Wilson, CCIM, SIOR As I write this article, we are making the final preparations for the 7th Annual NYS Commercial Real Estate Conference to be held June 16-18, 2008 at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, hosted by the New York State Commercial Association of Realtors, Inc., (NYSCAR) the Northern New Jersey/New York State Chapter of CCIM, the NYS Upstate and Downstate Chapters of SIOR and the Society of Exchange Counselors (SEC). Conference chairman Joseph Rowley, Jr., (CB Richard Ellis-Rochester) and his planning committee have organized another outstanding event this year! The conference will bring together commercial practitioners from NYS as well as other states including Ohio, S. Carolina, Conn., Mass., Fla., N.J., Tex., and Kans. This year we also have a representative from Canada. We are deeply appreciative of our sponsors who are supporting the conference and commercial real estate industry. Our thanks go out to our platinum sponsor: Pyramid Brokerage Co.; gold sponsors: CB Richard Ellis-Upstate and OREXCO 1031; silver sponsors: GE Real Estate, Key Bank, LaBella Associates, PC, Maser Consulting, PA, SYNAPSE Partners, LLC, Wilber National Bank, New York Real Estate Journal, Northern New Jersey/New York State Chapter of CCIM, New York State Upstate and Downstate Chapters of SIOR. We are fortunate to have an outstanding cadre of instructors for the conference who I would like to thank on behalf of the hosting organizations: Jim Wilson, CCIM, SEC, and Bill Stonaker, CCIM, SEC who will be serving as moderators for the commercial marketing session which is always a great networking event. Instructors for June 18: Tim Conley, CCIM, Patrick Reilly, RCE, Robert Giniecki, CCIM, SEC, Jim Wilson, CCIM, SEC, Joseph Larkin, CCIM, SIOR, William Burgess, CCIM, SIOR, James Runko and Jacqueline Conti, MAI. Special thanks to Herbert Krumsick, SIOR, Sr. VP, J.P. Weigand & Sons, Inc., (Wichita, Kans.) as the keynote speaker for the networking lunch on June 18, as well as Michael Kelly, director of governmental affairs of the NYSCAR; first VP of CCIM, Charles McClure, CCIM and Steve Eustis, SEC, CCIM, president of SEC. We hope you don't miss this premier conference which will offer a 1 1/2 day marketing session, a golf event, six three-hour commercial courses (most of which will carry continuing education credit) a networking lunch and a leasing roundtable event which is new this year. Several of the sponsoring organizations will also hold an organizational meeting during the conference. Maureen Wilson, CCIM, SIOR is the 2008 president of NYSCAR, Albany, N.Y.