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Courses of Study 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Commercial Real Estate Development Certificate


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Real estate development projects have many moving pieces — millions of dollars, groups of stakeholders, and teams of individuals working together to bring the projects to success, often over the course of several years.

Throughout this certificate program, you will focus on how to effectively manage these commercial development projects to maximize value. Utilizing specific case studies, you will determine a project’s feasibility, develop project management skills, and systematically compare competing development sites to ensure your selection aligns with your project goals. You will then create, cultivate, and communicate the project’s vision, scope, and feasibility in a development package to share with key stakeholders to gain support for your project. This package will prepare you to create a basis of design document which will become the foundation for the project team’s choices, rationale, and decision making throughout the process. To highlight the project’s benefits and opportunities to the broader community, you’ll also develop a financial pitch designed to realistically promote the project. As the final piece, you’ll have the opportunity to develop plans to overcome any unexpected project challenges elegantly and efficiently.

Upon completion of the program, you will have the skills and practical knowledge to take a commercial development project from conception to launch. 

Key Takeaways


  • Establish a systematic and project-focused commercial building site selection process to efficiently compare potential building sites 
  • Calculate, create, compile, and organize relevant development project data into a deliverable development package 
  • Utilize project data to create and deliver a financial pitch
  • Analyze your specific market sector’s needs to articulate the vision to prospective planners, designers, and architects 
  • Identify potential project adversities and optimize potential project opportunities to make decisions that efficiently apply resources

What You’ll Earn


  • Real Estate Development Certificate from Cornell Hotel School: SC Johnson College of Business
  • 70 Professional Development Hours (7 CEUs)

Who Should Enroll


  • Developers
  • Real estate portfolio and asset managers
  • Project managers
  • Underwriters
  • Property attorneys
  • Loan officers
  • Facilities managers
  • Property managers

Total Investment


  • $3,600 with monthly payment options available
  • 3 months to complete all the courses

How To Enroll


Additional enrollment information coming soon.