Midwest real estate conference looks at waterfront developments in Detroit, Minneapolis & Illinois

210 real estate professionals from the Midwest attended the Commercial Real Estate Women Detroit (CREW) conference at the Renaissance Center, at which waterfront redevelopments were a top discussion.

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Faye Alexander Nelson, president and CEO of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, outlined how seed money from the Kresge Foundation is being used as a catalyst to promote $1 billion in economic development on the riverfront through public and private investment.

"It was a real tough situation for our community," she said. "There was no public access; now we’re 80 percent complete on the east riverfront RiverWalk."

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