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Storrs Center, adjacent to the University of Connecticut, is a bustling town center featuring shops, residences, restaurants, a public square and even a puppet museum. Located on the site of what used to be a nondescript shopping center, it has created the heart of a college town where none existed before.

Sam Chandan, associate dean at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, was a guest on the latest edition of Nareit’s REIT Report podcast.

Chandan discussed a variety of issues related to diversity and real estate.

Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE: KIM) hopes its new online database of available pop-up sites within its portfolio will make pop-up stores an even more prevalent feature of today’s changing retail landscape.

Bonnie Gottlieb, Nareit’s senior vice president for industry and member affairs, was a guest on the latest edition of Nareit’s REIT Report podcast.

Lou Conforti, CEO and director of retail REIT Washington Prime Group Inc. (NYSE: WPG), was a guest on the latest edition of Nareit’s REIT Report podcast.

Conforti gave an overview of developments at Washington Prime as well as across the retail real estate industry more broadly.

Joel Beam, managing director and senior portfolio manager at Salient, was a guest on the latest edition of Nareit’s REIT Report Podcast.

Beam, lead manager of the Salient Select Income Fund, commented on the variety of factors impacting the REIT market today. “What we see as front and center right now is really volatility,” he noted.

In a special edition of The REIT Report: Nareit’s Weekly Podcast, First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.’s (NYSE: FR) President and CEO Peter Baccile discusses his move from investment banking to the C-suite, priorities during his first year on the job and

Calvin Schnure, Nareit’s senior vice president for research and economic analysis, joined Nareit’s REIT Report Podcast to discuss how concerns about inflation and interest rates are affecting the broader markets, and the REIT market in particular.

Schnure observed that recent signs that inflation may be picking up prompted a significant increase in interest rates. This sparked large moves in the broad equity markets in early February.

In the latest edition of Nareit’s REIT Report Podcast, Mizuho Securities analyst Richard Anderson recapped the REIT market’s performance in 2017 and discussed some of the story’s to watching in 2018.

Nareit’s ESG Forum is taking place in Seattle from Jan. 23 – 24. The workshop offers an opportunity for Nareit members to gather to discuss best practices and opportunities to advance real estate sustainability.