Annual Real Estate Dinner
Lindner Dean Marianne Lewis, PhD (front row, second from left) and Distinguished Real Estate Service Award honoree Laura Brunner (front row, third from left) with real estate student honorees and volunteers at a UC Real Estate Center Annual Awards Dinner.
The UC Real Estate Center's Annual Dinner highlights the accomplishments of the center, the real estate program, its supporters, Lindner faculty and staff and distinguished students and alumni.
Dinner Sponsorships
Corporate Sponsor $5,000
Includes:
- One banquet table with preferential seating (10 seats)
- Twenty complimentary drink tickets
- Prominent display of your company logo on all marketing materials (banquet ads, event programs, sponsor boards, invitation)
Tax deductible portion is $4,480.
Bearcat Sponsor $2,500
Includes:
- Half banquet table with preferential seating (5 seats)
- Ten complimentary drink tickets
- Prominent display of your company logo on all marketing materials (banquet ads, event programs, sponsor boards, invitation)
Tax deductible portion is $2,240
Individual Sponsor $1,250
Includes:
- Two tickets to dinner
- Four complimentary drink tickets
- Prominent display of your company logo on all marketing materials (banquet ads, event programs, sponsor boards, invitation)
Tax deductible portion is $1,146
Thanks our 2023 Annual Dinner Sponors
Eagle Realty Group
Al Neyer
First Financial Bank
Huseman Group
Mobile Infrastructure
STNL Development
Strauss Troy
Taft Law
Anchor Properties
Cincinnati Commercial Contracting
Cincinnati Development Fund
Civil & Environmental Consultants LLC
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
FC Cincinnati
Griffin, Fletcher & Herndon LLP
Keating, Muething & Klekamp
Marcus & Millichap Andrews Dickman Group
Model Group
PLK Communities
Republic Bank
Thompson Hine
Urban Sites
Viking Partners
3CDC
Duke Energy
Fath Properties
TriVersity Construction
Our Annual Center Supporters
The Real Estate Center is thankful for its generous corporate partners for providing financial support, sharing valuable input and expertise, and acting as global ambassadors for the Center and the real estate program.
PNC
Premier Partner
Eagle Realty Group
Platinum Partner
Brandicorp
Gold Partner
Hills Properties
Gold Partner
Kroger
Gold Partner
Neyer Properties
Gold Partner
North American Properties
Gold Partner
Procter & Gamble
Gold Partner
Truist Bank
Gold Partner
Mario San Marco
BEARE Chairman, Senior Vice President, Economic Development, Western & Southern Financial Group
Scott Arentsen
Chief Financial Officer, Towne Properties
Doug Armbruster
Senior Vice President, Core 5 Industrial Partners
Brian Banke
Senior Director, Global Real Estate, Procter & Gamble
Traci Boeing
Senior Vice President & Team Lead Commerical Real Estate, Wesbanco
Michael Brandy
President, Brandicorp
Chad Burke
Principal, GBBN
Mark Caesar
CRE Regional Manager, Truist Bank
Mark Cinquina
Executive Vice President, Regional Manager, PNC Financial Services
Craig Coffman
Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer, Uptown Rental Properties
Scott Csendes
Vice President, Director of Civic & Public Safety Group, KZF Design
Michael Dooley
Principal | Civil Engineer Senior Project Manager, Bayer Becker
Karl Dostal
CPA, CFP Cincinnati Market Leader, Partner, MCM CPA’s and Advisors
Brian Doyle
Finance Vice President, Messer Construction Co.
Jeff Eichhorn
Executive Vice President, Schueler Group
Bryant Fox
Cincinnati Market President, Park National Bank
Gregg Fusaro
Partner, CIG Communities
Eric Gardner
President, Gardner Street Commercial Real Estate Group
Jason Gibson
Principal, Anchor Associates
John Greiwe
Director of Business Development, Cintech Construction
Louis Guttman
CEO, Hills Properties
Michael Heekin
Development Coordinator, Hunt Builders Corporation
Adam Hemmer
Vice President of Real Estate and Development, Paul Hemmer Company
Steven Hermiller
Principal/Vice President, PE, CDP, CEcD, The Mannik & Smith Group, Inc.
Paul Richard Herndon
Attorney, Griffin Fletcher & Herndon LLP
Nick Hodge
CEO & Principal, Essential Growth Properties
Donald Huffner
CEO, James Campbell Company
Noah Juran
Senior Vice President, Managing Director, NorthMarq Capital, LLC
Chip Kupferberg
Principal, BlueMark Capital, LLC
Daniel Lessing
LEED AP, CEM; Client Leader, BDHP Architecture
Joe Lockett
Director, Real Estate & Facilities, altafiber
Bob Luebbe
Senior Vice President & Regional Sales Manager, Fifth Third Bank
Sean McGrory
CPA, Clark Schaefer Hackett
Elizabeth Mangan
Chief Executive Officer, Miller Valentine Group
Erin Mignano
Vice President and General Manager, Turner Construction Company
Ken Moczulski
CEO, M-M Properties
Ryan Moore
Co-Founder and CEO, Last Mile Investments
Shenan Murphy
CEO, Principal, Cincinnati, Cleveland & Dayton, Colliers International
Abigail Murray
Director of Construction, Viking Partners
Rusty Myers
Executive Vice President, JLL
Kyle Neumann
Senior Vice President, Bellwether Enterprise
Dan Neyer
President/CEO, Neyer Properties
Greg Olson
CEO, Urban Sites
Ken Oswald
CEO, Oswald Company
Kelly Postlewaite, CPA
Partner, FORVIS
Tom Powers
Executive Managing Director, Cincinnati, Cushman & Wakefield
Ryan Reardon
Vice President, Real Estate Development, Al. Neyer
Lee Robinson
Broker/Owner, Robinson Sotheby’s International Realty
Joshua Rothstein
Vice President, Sales & Leasing, OnSite Retail Group
Jeffrey Sackenheim
Vice President, Architecture, SHP Architects
Jeanne Schroer
President/CEO, Catalytic Development Funding Corp. of Northern Kentucky
Kevin Schutte
Managing Director, Cincinnati/Dayton, CBRE
Paul Silva
President, Eagle Realty Group
Martha Skelton
Senior Vice President Regional Manager Commercial Real Estate, Huntington National Bank
Christina Sprecher
Member, Chair of Real Estate Practice Group, Frost Brown Todd LLC
Mike Spurlock
Director Commercial Mortgage Loans, Ameritas Investment Partners
Richard Sterling
Managing Director, Investment Real Estate, First Financial Bank
Dan Sutton
President/CEO, Kemba Credit Union
Lindsey Taylor
Senior Director, Head of Asset Management and Alternative Profit, Kroger
Daniel Utt
Partner & Real Estate Practice Group Leader, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (KMK Law)
Pamela Weber
Senior Vice President, PNC Real Estate Banking
Mark Wilhoite
Executive Vice President, ComptonAddy
Kristin Woeste
Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Distinguished Real Estate Service Award
Each year, the Greater Cincinnati Real Estate community looks to its peers in the industry to bestow the University of Cincinnati Distinguished Real Estate Service Award. The community responds by selecting a professional who best exemplifies entrepreneurial spirit and concern for their community.
Laura Brunner is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority (The Port), an economic development agency based in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more than a decade, Laura has led The Port with her impassioned efforts to fix broken real estate in order to reduce wealth disparities, increase homeownership and grow manufacturing jobs.
Throughout her career, Brunner has consistently challenged the status quo and leaned into risk. When at developer Al. Neyer, the opportunity arose to transform the Vernon Manor into offices. Laura saw an opportunity for minority investors to own a majority interest in the project. She was successful in making that a reality, and now over 700 employees of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital work in the redeveloped hotel.
Brunner gained national recognition in 2022 when she led the unprecedented effort to acquire 194 single-family homes from an out-of-town investor to keep the American dream of home ownership alive for many Cincinnatians. She also blazed new trails in sustainable investing when The Port issued $11 million in social impact bonds for the creation of advanced manufacturing jobs.
As a quasi-governmental public agency, The Port is uniquely able to issue debt and invest in real estate, and Laura acts decisively in leveraging these tools to maximize The Port’s impact while tackling the most complex challenges in Hamilton County.
Laura earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, spent 25 years in public accounting and management consulting, and more than a decade in the commercial real estate industry. She is the recipient of dozens of awards, including Cincinnati Enquirer Woman of the Year and the NAACP President’s Award. She has also served on many arts and social services boards, including as President of the Cincinnati Ballet and the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Previous Annual Dinners
On June 14, 2023, 620 guests visited Music Hall in downtown Cincinnati to highlight the accomplishments of the center, the real estate program, its supporters, Carl H. Lindner College of Business faculty and staff and distinguished students and alumni.
The evening’s highlights included:
- A celebration of 2022-23 academic year scholarship recipients
- Recognition of the Board of Executive Advisors in Real Estate Scholars
- The introduction of Gary Painter, PhD, as the new academic director of the real estate program
- Recognition of Laura Brunner, president and CEO of the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, as the recipient of the Distinguished Real Estate Service Award.
Following a two-year absenced due to COVID-19, the center marked the joyous return of its annual awards dinner on June 1, 2022, attracting 550 commercial real estate professionals to the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati to celebrate the accomplishments of the center, program, faculty, staff and distinguished students and alumni.
Rusty Myers, BBA ’82, was recognized as the Distinguished Service Award recipient. Myers is a longtime volunteer and servant leader for UC. The fourth-generation Bearcat is a past president of the UC Alumni Association, Real Estate Advisory Counsel and Real Estate Roundtable.
Furthermore, 18 students received a combined total of $40,000 in UC scholarship awards. Additionally, four of these students received additional external scholarships from Ohio Realtors and Society of Industrial and Office Realtors valued at another $7,000.