Starting at the turn of the century, Manhattan redefined commercial development by building up. Despite rapid growth elsewhere, it still has the largest number of skyscrapers in the world and, with over 353 million square feet of office space, it remains a top destination for many of the world's leading companies. The diversity of real estate options in Midtown and Lower Manhattan reflects that trend. For Lehigh students with an interest in commercial real estate, Manhattan is a rather unique laboratory for the 2007-2008 school year. View the slideshow to learn a little more about the properties on ire@l's map, as well as other venues with which Lehigh has been involved.
Stephen Thode, director of the Goodman Center for Real Estate Studies, discusses cross-disciplinary real estate studies.
The 2007 ire@l speaker series features such renowned real estate executives as Cushman and Wakefield's Bruce Mosler and Fried Frank's Jonathan Mechanic.
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Lennox White '07, now with PwC's Real Estate Consulting Group, speaks about his Lehigh experience and his real estate practicum.
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Watch a recent student video on Connecticut's Riverside development project, which was presented as part of the ire@l practicum.
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Located just a short drive from the international business hubs of New York and Philadelphia, Lehigh University is in a unique position to evolve along with the business community.
It's why we focus on closely integrating our curriculum with Lehigh's three other undergraduate colleges and, in particular, the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.
"Many institutions offer real estate programs only to business majors", says Stephen Thode, director of the Gooman Center for Real Estate Studies. "But Lehigh's ire@l program continuously integrates topics across a broad variety of disciplines and encourages the free exchange of ideas among students." The program is open to all undergraduates across colleges and is taken in parallel with a student's chosen academic major.
To get a sense of why Lehigh's been so successful at cross-disciplinary education, take a few minutes to read more about three other rather unconventional programs:
