News: Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: January 20, 2017
NEREJ to host Cannabis in Commercial Real Estate Summit - February 8
Newton, MA The New England Real Estate Journal (NEREJ) will hold a “Cannabis in Commercial Real Estate Summit February 8, at the Boston Marriott Newton.
Save $40 and get the $89 early bird ticket rate. To attend please register at: https://cannabisandcre.eventbrite.com. Tickets on the day of the show at the door are $129 each.
Sponsors of this Cannabis in Commercial Real Estate Summit include title sponsor: AmeriCann; corporate sponsors: Flynn Law Group, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner and Vantage Builders.
Come and meet old friends, create new contacts, or learn something new during a full buffet breakfast and enjoy the 2 one-hour discussions from professionals in the cannabis/ real estate market.
The first panel, “Commercial real estate seeing new opportunities in the cannabis industry,” will begin at 9 a.m. The second panel “How does the new cannabis law effect commercial real estate,” will start at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m. there will be networking with speakers and real estate professionals and the event will conclude at 12 noon. Over 175 professionals are anticipated to be in attendance including investors, bankers, brokers, lawyers, developers, builders, property managers, insurance agents and service and suppliers.
NEREJ has thirteen summits a year in Massachusetts, Northern New England and Connecticut. They have many more summits coming up in 2017.
For more information to be a speaker, sponsor or attendee please contact Rick Kaplan at rkaplan@nerej.com or 781-878-4540 x247.
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