Renewable Energy in Multifamily Housing in San Jose

When

2022-02-10
2022-02-10T09:00:00 - 2022-02-10T11:00:00
America/Los_Angeles

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    ULI member experts from around the country will be participating in an Advisory Services Panel for the City of San Jose from February 7-10. The full press release can be found here. The panel will offer recommendations to the City on implementing renewable energy resources in market-rate and affordable multifamily housing developments. The panel will focus on how electrification and renewable energy in multi-family housing can unlock positive environmental, health, and social outcomes for the community as well as how to increase the financial viability of such projects. Members of the press and public are invited to join us on Thursday, February 10th from 9:00-11:00 AM for the virtual presentation of the panel's findings using this link.

    Panelists include:
    • Kevin Bates, Founder of SHARP Development Company, Greensboro, Georgia 
    • Jose Bodipo-Memba , Director of Sustainable Communities at Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Sacramento, California
    • Page Bolin, Senior Project Developer at Community Energy, Arvada, Colorado
    • Jeff Kingsbury, Managing Principal, Ancora Partners LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana (Chair)
    • Marta Schantz, Senior Vice President of the Urban Land Institute Greenprint Center for Building Performance, Washington
    • Molly Simpson, Manager of Fannie Mae Multifamily Green and Healthy Housing Financing, Boston, Massachusetts
    The specific questions that the panelists will be addressing are:
    • How the city can incentivize the implementation of renewable energy resources in existing multifamily properties and how these new energy-efficiency projects can be accomplished in a way that accommodates the grid's capacity; 
    • How the city can unlock public and private funding to accelerate the rate of retrofits for energy efficiency, electrification, and renewable energy generation and storage in existing multifamily housing;
    • Which new business models and public-private partnerships the city should consider to generate revenue and catalyze the execution of renewable energy projects;
    • How developers, property owners, and tenants can benefit financially from electrification and energy efficiency strategies;
    • How the city can ensure that low-income residents, especially those living in gas-powered buildings, are not negatively impacted by the shift to all-electric buildings; and,
    • How the city can address environmental justice, equity, and fair housing goals while promoting electrification and renewable distributed energy resources (DERs).

    Speakers

    Page Bolin

    Principal/Owner, Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners

    Ms. Bolin brings over 30 years of planning, entitlement and development experience to her consultancy, Sustainable Development Solutions, which provides real estate acquisition and entitlement services to her clients. Ms. Bolin's experience ranges from residential development and commercial property acquisition to renewable energy project development. Currently active in the renewable energy industry, Ms. Bolin provides site acquisition assistance, community outreach, project entitlement and project management to her clients.

    Molly Simpson

    Greening Affordable Housing Program Analyst, District of Columbia, Dept. of Energy and Environment

    Molly Simpson is a Manager for the Fannie Mae Multifamily Green and Healthy Housing Financing Business for Fannie Mae. In this capacity, she focuses on developing and implementing financing products that increase the sustainability of the country's multifamily housing stock. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Simpson was the senior manager of District of Columbia’s Department of Energy & Environment’s Solar for All program. Simpson has also served as the housing affordability and green program analyst in the District of Columbia’s Urban Sustainability Administration and as a manager of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. Simpson has also worked in sustainability policy and practice at the U.S. Department of Housing and Community Development and as a consultant to federal clients including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Simpson holds a master’s degree in sustainable urban planning from the George Washington University and holds a bachelor’s in environmental studies with concentrations in political studies and economics from Bard College.

    Kevin Bates

    Sharp Development Company

    Kevin graduated from Stanford and has over 30 years of experience as a commercial real estate developer in Silicon Valley. He handles all aspects of the development process, and has personally completed more than 50 buildings totaling over 2.5 million square feet. His focus is on retrofitting existing commercial buildings to net zero energy, with carbon neutrality and a strong emphasis on the health and wellness of the interior environment for the occupants. The driver for Kevin is to demonstrate that this way of repurposing existing building stock can be done in a manner that is more profitable for the ownership than the less expensive way of building to meet minimum code. He does this by weaving together cutting edge technology and products with time-tested passive methodologies to maximize what nature gives us for free and to create a fabric of sustainability that is cost effective. Every decision is based on where the vectors of efficiency, cost effectiveness and the experience of the occupants intersect. It is a very thoughtful, holistic approach, which results in assets, which are quantifiably more profitable, and significantly healthier for the occupants than a standard renovation.

    Jose Bodipo-Memba

    Director of Sustainable Communities, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)

    Jose Bodipo-Memba is the Director of Sustainable Communities for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD). Mr. Bodipo-Memba has spent over 18 years managing development and compliance projects associated with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Mr. Bodipo-Memba is the program manager for SMUD’s Long Range Asset Management Plan and as the environmental compliance coordinator for the 5000 acre Solano Wind Project in Rio Vista, CA. Mr. Bodipo-Memba is active in the community, serving on the Sacramento Planning and Design Commission, the Center for Fathers and Families Board of Directors, Chair of the ULI Sacramento District Council, and a member of the ULI National Public Development Infrastructure Council. He is the past board chair of Next Move Sacramento and Coro San Francisco. Mr. Bodipo-Memba was a 2010 recipient of the Sacramento Business Journal 40 under 40 award, the 2012 Drexel University Oxholm Award for Community Leadership, and the 2015 Drexel University 40 under 40 Distinguished Alumni award. Mr. Bodipo-Memba holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Drexel University.

    Jeff Kingsbury

    Co-founder/Chief Customer Officer, Greenstreet, Ltd.

    Jeff Kingsbury has thirty years of experience in the planning and development of communities throughout the United States, encompassing over 35,000 acres. He has been a principal in the development and disposition of over $630 million in real estate, and consulted on master planning, economic development, and regulatory issues for private sector clients as well as cities, counties, and non-profits in sixteen states. In 2019, Jeff co-founded Ancora, a Durham-based leading developer, owner, and operator of university and health system anchored real estate in U.S. knowledge markets. The firm is the lead developer of Electric Works, an adaptive reuse of a former historic GE campus into a $286 million mixed-use innovation district in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and one of the Midwest's largest public-private partnerships. In 2005, he founded and serves as managing principal of Greenstreet Ltd., an Indianapolis-based strategic planning and real estate practice. The firm has worked with leading anchor institutions, including hospitals, academic medical centers, colleges, universities, utilities, museums, and cultural institutions to develop shared value solutions to accomplish the anchor’s enterprise objectives and community development goals. Jeff has been a senior advisor to Cherokee, the leading private equity firm investing in brownfield redevelopment, with more than $2 billion under management. His large-scale project experience includes the 4,700-acre redevelopment of Denver’s Stapleton International Airport; Imperial, a 720-acre master planned community and redevelopment of the former Imperial Sugar refinery in Sugar Land, Texas; Belmar, a 103-acre regional mall redevelopment in Lakewood, Colorado; Lowry, an 1,866-acre redevelopment of the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver; and Homan Square, a 55-acre redevelopment of the former Sears, Roebuck and Co. world headquarters in Chicago. Jeff is the founding Chairman of the Redevelopment and Reuse Council of the Urban Land Institute and served as Chairman of the Sustainable Development Council, a juror on the Institute’s Global Awards for Excellence Jury, and an advisor for the Committee on Climate Change, Land Use, and Energy. With ULI Indiana, Jeff served as Chair of Mission Advancement and also works closely with the Central Indiana Council of Elected Officials to advance regionalism. He is a co-author of the book Developing Sustainable Planned Communities (ULI, 2007), and a peer reviewer of the text Professional Real Estate Development, 3rd Edition (ULI, 2012).

    Marta Schantz

    Senior Vice President, ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance, Urban Land Institute

    Marta Schantz is the senior vice president for the Urban Land Institute’s Greenprint Center for Building Performance at the, a worldwide alliance of real estate owners committed to improving the environmental performance of the industry – reducing carbon, and increasing building value. Recent focus areas range from City/Real Estate Partnerships for Climate Policy, to Embodied Carbon in Real Estate, to Class B/C Office Energy Efficiency. Before her time at ULI, Marta consulted to utilities and real estate at Waypoint Energy, performed federal energy consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, and conducted energy project cost analyses at the US Department of Energy. Marta is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a LEED Green Associate and a Fitwel Ambassador.