Posted by ppeery on November 17th, 2009

Last week, I met with several members of the Real Estate Club at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business down at Bundoran Farm.  The goals of this meeting were to learn more about the hands on practice of community and real estate development and find out more about the Preservation Development approach underway at Bundoran Farm.  As a Darden grad (Class of 1993), it was a real treat for me to spend time with this group of intelligent and very inquisitive students.   They can really keep you on your toes.

In addition talking about various real estate career paths, I discussed about how I become involved in community development, my current roles with Celebration Associates and at Bundoran Farm, and how my time at Darden had prepared me for what I am doing now.  While general management and ethics are core components of any Darden student’s education, the skills I developed in situational analysis, goal definition and general problem solving are things that I use daily in my professional and personal life.  

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Accompanying the students was C. Ray Smith, Professor Emeritus at Darden and one of my former professors.  I especially pleased to see him again and very grateful that he didn’t “cold call” me like he use to when I was his student.

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