Details for Northern Colorado Real Estate Conference Announced Jay Elvins - 09/10/10 The 14th Annual Northern Colorado Real Estate Conference will be hosted by the Everitt Real Estate Center on the Colorado State University campus and take place September 23rd at the Hilton Fort Collins from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM. The theme of this year's conference is "Reality Check 2011". Experts at the event will offer practical insights and share fresh research data about the commercial and residential real estate market in Northern Colorado at present, and going forward the next twenty years. The conference will be open to the public and qualifies students for three hours of continuing education credit. The director of the Everitt Real Estate Center, Steven Laposa, will give a presentation called "Are You Poised for the Next Twenty Years?", in which he will discuss the results from a recent CSU EREC study that identified cities in 1980 and 1990 that were similar to Fort Collins-Loveland in 2010 and analyze growth and declines from the last 20 years. After Laposa's discussion, there will be a panel discussion and breakout sessions before the keynote speaker, A. Simon Montagu takes the podium. Montagu is the customer resource support division director of the Denver Regional Council of Governments. He will discuss strategies for regional growth, waster, sustainability, transportation, and quality of life. Montagu is scheduled to hit the stage at 11:45 AM.