Recently, Elaine Worzala, Ph.D. was interviewed by Point2 Homes on what growing cities like Toronto should do in order to counter urban density challenges. Is vertical sprawl, horizontal sprawl or missing middle housing the answer? Worzala lends her viewpoint: For me, it has to be the middle road. People want to live in communities that […]
Chris Mothorpe, professor of economics at the College of Charleston School of Business recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal about research he and David Wyman, professor of entrepreneurship, published in the Journal of Real Estate Research. In the study, Wyman and Mothorpe found that empty lots located next to power lines sell for […]
The College of Charleston School of Business recently hosted a fireside chat with local businessman Tommy Baker and retired vice president and general manager of Boeing South Carolina Jack Jones during the Fifth-Annual Tommy Baker Entrepreneurship Hour. At this year’s event, hosted by the business school’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Carter Real Estate Center, Baker […]
The School of Business Carter Real Estate Center has selected a prestigious team of students to take on the Real Confidence University Challenge (RCUC), a national competition where participants are given $1 billion in “play money” to invest in commercial real estate properties. The students who gain the largest return on their investments win the […]
Research from eight School of Business professors and one School of Sciences and Mathematics professor is being presented at the American Real Estate Society (ARES) annual meeting in Denver from March 29 to April 2, 2016. The ARES annual meeting is one of the most prestigious real estate conferences, bringing together academic and professional real […]
Business students and real estate professionals joined together for a webinar on the new ARGUS Enterprise Software™ at the College of Charleston School of Business. The webinar, hosted by the Carter Real Estate Center, was conducted by ARGUS-certified instructor Bob Rajewski who called in from Washington, D.C. on Friday, November 13. The three-hour workshop served […]
Elaine Worzala, executive director of the Carter Real Estate Center and professor of real estate, is one of 28 industry experts published in the book, Real Estate Success: 12 Leadership Strategies to Make Money Regardless of the Global Economy. The publication, written by Margot Weinstein, president and CEO of MW Leadership Consultants LLC and broker […]
When Shopping Centers Today magazine profiled Charleston’s King Street and its shops and restaurants that are busy year round, reporter Matt Hudgins interviewed Elaine Worzala, associate dean of the School of Business, executive director of the Carter Real Estate Center, and professor of commercial real estate. Worzala is an international researcher in commercial real estate […]
Marketing and finance are the top two fastest growing majors at the College of Charleston. Enrollment in both of these programs is up significantly over the previous year. In the case of marketing, it’s up 155 percent, and that program has only been offered since 2013. And finance, which has been in existence here for just […]
King Street, located right next to the College of Charleston campus, has been named one of the 10 great streets in America by the American Planning Association. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t think King Street is great, but professors and students in the College’s Urban Studies Program explain the “why” behind […]
