COMMERCIAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
Creating industrial real estate, office space, shopping centers, and hotel/recreation facilities, including strategy, market and feasibility analysis, site planning/design, capital cost analysis, construction, and financial structuring. Emphasis on case studies and project analysis.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: ( REAL EST 410 , 710 , or concurrent enrollment), ( REAL EST 415 , 715 , or concurrent enrollment), and graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain and apply the key components of a commercial real estate development analysis. Audience: Graduate 2. Articulate the role of the developer in the development process as a catalyst, capital source and risk mitigating agent. Audience: Graduate 3. Consider the risk/reward trade-offs and the gamut of risk mitigation techniques in real estate. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate the effective oral and written communication protocols, skills and techniques necessary for real estate deal-making and project assessment. Audience: Graduate 5. Create a preliminary site design for new construction, allowing for zoning limits, setbacks, storm water, open space, parking and circulation Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain and apply the key components of a commercial real estate development analysis. Audience: Graduate 2. Articulate the role of the developer in the development process as a catalyst, capital source and risk mitigating agent. Audience: Graduate 3. Consider the risk/reward trade-offs and the gamut of risk mitigation techniques in real estate. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate the effective oral and written communication protocols, skills and techniques necessary for real estate deal-making and project assessment. Audience: Graduate 5. Create a preliminary site design for new construction, allowing for zoning limits, setbacks, storm water, open space, parking and circulation Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027