1. Investment flows into real estate developments - many of which might be mass timber structures - equate to billions of dollars per year.  

2. A strength of our nation’s balance sheet is its forestlands, and their potential to drive prosperity.  

3. The financial services sector is huge, established and actually rather efficient.

4. Its professionals navigate fiduciary duties, regulatory realities and industry structures.  

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From these realities, the question is "how can mass timber fit in to this ecosystem - evolving from a promising novelty to a standard investment option?"

This session will feature conversations with professionals from within this realm - the persons who influence these investment decisions.  Michael Shanks manages over $5 billion dollars as a portfolio manager for Principal - one of the world’s larger and more respected investment houses.  Crescent Real Estate has worked with such investors to produce amazing mass timber assets, including Denver’s Platte 15.  And Noel Johnson has led these institutional development deals, both individually and as part of national systems like Trammell Crow, across numerous deals.

Join us to learn how this realm works, and to ask your specific mass timber questions. Instead of blaming investors, this is a chance to learn about their decision making so that we can move towards a better future together.

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