Legal Contexts of Real Estate Decisions

Two of Lane 4 Property Group's top producers are engaged in a case study in the Legal Context of Real Estate Decisions, they are joined by fellow student with an architectural background. This is in the new Technical Room of the Law Building on UMKC's campus. The class is being taught by Professor Tony Lupino from the UMKC Law School and from Peter DiGiovanni the lead attorney from the prominent real estate firm of Lewis Rice and Fingersh. The role play involves a land owner of 10o acres who want to develop it and the class is charged with interviewing the owner and making recommendations about how to move it forward including all the legal issues relating to contracts, partnerships, agency relationships, ground leases, term sheets and negotiations. This is the first day of a three day course supplemented by several on line sessions culminating next month.

Breaking Ground for New Building

From right to left is: yours truly, Professor Walt Clements, Director of the White Real Estate Center: Mr. Henry Bloch, (the star of the show): Joan Gallos, PhD and Director of the EMBA program: Dean Teng Kee Tan, Dean of the Bloch School of Management: Roger Pick, PhD Director of the MBA program: and Fred Hays, PhD, Chair of the Finance Department. We had the privilege of taking part in the ground breaking of the new 68,000 SF building into which we will be moving August of 2013. The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, (IEI)of which the Lewis White Real Estate Center is an integral part, is clearly putting the Bloch School of Management at UMKC on the global map of education. We are ranked number 21 out of 2,320 colleges and universities in the country in our graduate program and number 10 in the undergraduate program. We have the number 1 and number 4 ranked researchers on Entrepreneurship in the entire world (out of over 1,700 researchers). Kansas City is truly a hot bed of the leading edge entrepreurial thinking applied to real estate in the world. How exciting it is to be a part.