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Exploring the realities of realty

MSRED students tour U.S. development sites
San Francisco - Hunter's Point Shipyard
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San Francisco - Hunter's Point Shipyard

In a recent intensive nine-day tour, eight candidates for the MS in Real Estate Development (MSRED) visited three major U.S. cities to meet with representatives from 35 real estate companies, in the process gaining an inside look at real estate's micro and macro levels, focused especially on issues of sustainability.

Joined in San Francisco, Portland and Chicago by Tony Ciochetti, Chairman and Director of the MIT Center for Real Estate — which administers the MSRED program — students visited organizations ranging from small private enterprises to large pension funds to immense, transformative infrastructure projects.

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