FENNEMORE CRAIG SPONSORS TEMPE STADIUM LUNCH OF THE ARIZONA COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FOR WOMAN ("AZCREW")
February 27, 2001

NATIONAL MISSION STATEMENT: The National Network of Commercial Real Estate Women is dedicated to furthering the success of its members by providing opportunities that foster productive and supportive relationships, and enhance personal and professional growth.

**** WELCOME TO THE 2001 YEAR****
WELCOME MEMBERS TO AZCREW 2001: Your 2001 Board of Directors is so pleased to welcome you to AZ CREW 2001. The new board has already met twice, and we are planning some great events and networking opportunities this year. Some of the ideas in the works for our special events include: a spa day, several dine-arounds at the homes of some of our members, a sports event, and a Construction 101 special seminar. Other ideas floated at the Board Meeting were allowing members to purchase a package of lunch meetings, advertising in BREW, and new sponsorship packages. The Calendar below represents only the events that we have finalized to date.

AZCREW CALENDAR SPRING 2001:

Thursday, March 1st AZ CREW Member Only Dinner: This is a great opportunity to get to know your "fellow" CREW members in a more intimate setting. RSVP to Trish Coury (602) 230-1243.

Tuesday, March 20th Lunch Meeting, "Real Estate Development by ASU," University Club: Scott Cole of ASU Programs will discuss real estate development at ASU, Rio Salado and on other ASU owned land. The focus of the program will be the future development in the area, and ASU's funding opportunities for this development. What are ASU's plans to piggyback the excitement of the new stadium in the area?

Saturday, March 24th AZ CREW Spa Day at the Camelback Inn: Networking by the pool after a first class massage - only in Phoenix! RSVP to Trish Coury (602) 230-1243 by March 12th.

Tuesday, April 17th Lunch Meeting, "Telco Buildings," University Club: A panel of developers, brokers and tenants will discuss the ins and outs of the new Telco building product that we are seeing across the Valley. What is it? How do you convert an obsolete office building to a Telco building ? How profitable can they be from a developer's standpoint? What is the demand for this product? New supply? Speakers to be announced.

Tuesday, May 15th Lunch Meeting, "Black Canyon Corridor," University Club: A panel of speakers including Bob Lundstedt of Cushman and Wakefield and Beth Jo Zeitzer of Del Webb will discuss the progress of one of the fastest growing areas in Phoenix. It is often said that the Black Canyon submarket boasts more Fortune 500 companies than any other submarket in Phoenix. With the 101 opening up soon, what more can we expect to see?

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS -- THE TEMPE STADIUM LUNCH MEETING WAS A WINNER!: AZCREW was so pleased to host more than 150 AZCREW members and their guests at our February 20th meeting at the Biltmore where a panel spoke about the new Arizona Cardinal Football stadium in Tempe. We would like to extend a special thank you again to our sponsors who played a major role in making this event so successful:

Our Champion Sponsors: Wells Fargo and the Law Offices of Fennemore Craig

Our Quarterback Sponsor: Stewart Title Guaranty Company

Our Cheerleader Sponsors: Churchill Mortgage of Arizona, Inc.; Mohr, Hackett, Pederson, Blakely & Randolph, P.C.; Mortgages, Ltd.; and Trammel Crow Company

Our Fans: Danielle Beaugureau, Wespac Construction; Trisha Coury, JCI Construction; Christine Hughes, Old Republic Title Agency; Gail Johnson, Old Republic Title Agency; Jody Pokorski, Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.; and Beth Jo Zeitzer, Del Webb Corporation.

We particularly want to thank the individual AZCREW members who were instrumental in helping us to obtain this sponsorship support:

Ginger Perry at Fennemore Craig; Vicki Benedict at Wells Fargo; Vickie Goergen at Stewart Title Guaranty Company; Cindy Hammond at Churchill Mortgage of Arizona, Inc.; Maureen Anders at Mohr, Hackett, Pederson, Blakely & Randolph; Laura Martini at Mortgages, Ltd.; and Mindy Korth at Trammell Crow Company.

And, we would like to thank Snell & Wilmer for providing the event programs and signage, and all of our sponsors, along with the Arizona Cardinals, the City of Tempe and the Tempe Convention & Visitors Bureau for their contributions to the Goodie Bags at each place setting, and the Cardinals for the autographed football donated as a raffle prize.

Most of all, we'd like to thank all of the AZCREW members who came to this event and brought guests. The audience questions were terrific!

OUR MEMBERSHIP: As a member of CREW, you are a member of a national organization of approximately 4,500 members representing virtually every sector in commercial real estate. That's why NNCREW is the only national professional real estate association able to be a "full-service network." When you look around the room at one of our monthly lunch meetings, you will find that at the Phoenix local chapter level this diversity is well exemplified. If you are interested in membership information for you or a friend, please contact Margaret L. Steiner, Esq. , of Shimmel, Hill, Bishop & Gruender, P.C. at mls@shimmelhill.com.

AZCREW 2001 BOARD: Even our 2001 Board of Directors includes women from a variety of commercial real estate sectors. As always, we encourage you to contact any of the Board Members with questions or comments about AZCREW, items you would like to be discussed at the Board Meeting, speaker ideas, etc.

President: Judith L. Ryan, Branch Manager, Transnation Title Company, jryan@transnation.com

Past President and Delegate: Brenda Bevilacqua, Business Development Executive, GE Capital, BrendaBevilacqua@gecapital.com

First Vice President: Danielle Beaugureau, Director of Marketing , Wespac Construction, Inc., danielleb@wespacconstruction.com

2nd Vice Pres. - Membership: Margaret L. Steiner, Esq., Shimmel, Hill, Bishop & Gruender, P.C., mls@shimmelhill.com

Secretary: Barbara Bagdon, Esq., Bonnet, Fairbourn, Friedman, Balint, PC, bbagdon@bffb.com

Treasurer: Peggy Burgess, President , Arcadia Management Group, arcadiamgtaz@yahoo.com

Director- Special Events: Trish Coury, Director of Business Development, JCI Construction , trishcoury@aol.com

Director - Sponsorship: Sharon Fabian, Esq., Attorney , Snell & Wilmer, sfabian@swlaw.com

Director-Public Relations: Laura Martini, Underwriter, Mortgages Limited, lmartnin@mtgltd.com

Director - Newsletter: Lori Cohen, Assistant Vice President , Fremont Investment and Loan, lcohen@fmtinv.com

National Delegate: Cathey Joseph, Esq., Hebert Schenk PC, clj@hs-law.com

LOCAL REAL ESTATE ON THE WEB:

CoStar's Phoenix regional real estate news: http://www.costargroup.com/news/region.asp?regionID=19 and
http://www.globest.com/seattle.html.

Loopnet lists local properties for lease and for sale with listing from most of the major brokers in town:
http://www.loopnet.com/

Of course the NNCREW Website is located at www.NNCREW.org.

THE E-NEWSLETTER: This is the first edition of the AZCREW e-newsletter. We are experimenting with the best ways to contact our members and guests. We chose the HTML format because it is easy to read and several companies prefer that we do not attach documents to e-mails. The downside is that some of you may find small errors in the formatting depending on how your system reads HTML. We are looking for your feedback, news suggestions, etc. Please contact Lori Cohen of Fremont Investment and Loan at lcohen@fmtinv.com with ANY feedback or if you want to be removed from the e-mail list. Thanks!
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