November 9, 2020
Clemson University Master of Real Estate Development alumni, Neil Robinette ’12, was named as one of North Carolina’s 2020 Trailblazers by Business North Carolina (October 2020). Neil is the current CEO of C.F. Smith Property Group in Rockingham, NC.
View all of the 2020 Trailblazers and their community impact at https://businessnc.com/2020-trailblazers-in-north-carolina/.
April 3, 2020
18-month Master of Real Estate Development Program students Rachel Bradshaw, Jalecia Coley, Brendan Swinehart, and Joseph Toledo comprised the MRED graduate student team for the Spring 2020 CASE Competition hosted by the Columbia Business School. Out of twenty-seven teams that submitted entries, the Clemson team was selected as one of the twelve semi-finalists and were invited to compete in New York in late March 2020. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CASE competition was cancelled and the team did not travel to New York to present.
About the CASE: The CASE is an international real estate development competition that provides graduate student teams the opportunity to showcase their real estate knowledge, creativity, and problem solving abilities by analyzing and programming a complex real world site. The CASE is organized and hosted by The CASE Collaborative. The CASE is not an invitation-only competition; it is open to any graduate student team in the world.
We are proud that the MRED student team was chosen as one of this year’s semi-finalists among teams from other prestigious universities:
Brandeis University
Clemson University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Georgetown University
Insituto de Empresa (Spain)
London Business School
MIT
NYU
York University
Unlike other competitions, The CASE focuses on real estate acquisition, development programming, and investment underwriting at the asset level. The competition mimics the circumstances and challenges that students of real estate finance, construction, planning, and design will encounter in the development industry after graduation.
Learn more about the CASE Competition here.
February 3, 2020
MRED student Brendan Swinehart, received the SIOR Foundation Student Real Estate Experience Program scholarship in late January. The scholarship was given by the Carolinas Chapter of SIOR and the SIOR Foundation.
He was chosen out of six applicants (three from Clemson, three from UNC-Charlotte) to attend the SIOR International European Conference in Dublin, Ireland, July 15-17, 2020. As part of this scholarship, Brendan will be provided up to $4,000 of funding to cover conference attendance expenses for Dublin.
Swinehart is a May 2019 Clemson graduate with a double major in architecture and Chinese. He is interested in using his background in Chinese to assist Chinese and other international businesses invest in property in the United States for development. As an undergraduate student at Clemson, Brendan traveled to Asia and Europe and he is looking forward to traveling abroad again to explore Ireland while learning about his family’s heritage.
SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office Realtors) was founded in 1941 to assist in securing manufacturing facilities across the nation to put into service to support production needs for World War II. Scholarship eligibility requirements included 1) current undergraduate (junior or senior) or graduate student; 2) majoring in real estate, finance, business or economics with a career interest in commercial real estate; 3) 21 years of age at the conference start; and 4) possess a valid passport for the conference dates.
Learn more about SIOR here.
